Meghan E. Meredith, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Surgery
NYU Langone Health
meghan.meredith [at] nyulangone [dot] org
✱ CV
Meghan E. Meredith is a postdoctoral fellow at NYU Langone Health's Center for Surgical & Transplant Applied Research (C-STAR) under Dr. Sommer E. Gentry. She is interested in improving inefficiency and inequity in healthcare systems using mathematical modeling. At C-STAR, she works to make organ donations and transplants equitable, accessible, and successful.
Meghan received her Ph.D. in Operations Research from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Dr. Lauren N. Steimle. Her thesis developed mathematical models to predict risk of maternal morbidity and mortality, analyze measures of access to maternity care, characterize the trade-offs between travel distance and delivery volume, and predict the worst-case maternity care unit closures under realistic patient care-seeking behavior.
In 2023, Meghan was selected as a Summer Associate at RAND Corporation where she worked on quantifying the impact of forced labor laws on U.S. business.
Meghan received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked with Dr. Laura Albert on analyzing the results of a smart policing initiative to reduce high-risk opioid use and drug-related crime. At UW-Madison, she was a member of the Quality & Safety Improvement Student Lab.
Selected Awards and Honors
INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Student Paper Competition Finalist, 2025
Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Science Conference Outstanding Oral Presentation, 2025 (News Release)
Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Publication Award, 2024 (News Release)
IISE Operations Research/Data Science 3-Minute Thesis Pitch Runner-Up, 2024
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2022-2025 (News Release)
INFORMS MIF Student Poster Competition winner, 2022
George Leadership Development Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021 & 2022
Master Modeler Competition winner among Georgia Tech teams, 2022
News Releases
Georgia Tech researchers identify communities in need, ways to fix state’s maternal mortality crisis (October 2024), Atlanta News First
Expanding Access to Obstetric Care in Georgia: Challenges and Strategies (July 2024), Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Student Meghan Meredith Earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (April 2024), H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology