eric met his wife sarah snell while attending medical school and both earned their medical doctorates in 1988. during medical school, the couple spent two months working in the field in new guinea where they witnessed third-world medicine and the violence of tribal warfare first-hand. the two were married shortly after graduation in may 1988. meyer's post-graduate training was in emergency medicine at oregon health sciences university and afterwards practiced as an emergency medicine physician at providence medical center in portland, oregon. meyer's daughter, sophie, was born in 1994 and his son, clay, was born in 1996. snell specializes in obstetrics and gynecology at scottsdale healthcare shea medical center. his daughter, sophie meyer, earned her undergraduate degree in physics engineering and is pursuing her master's degree in material engineering at stanford university. his son, clay meyer, is studying for his undergraduate degree in environmental engineering at stanford university.