Barbara Joyce McNeil

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Barbara Joyce McNeil is an American physician who was the founding director of the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. [1]

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Early life and education

McNeil was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1941. She graduated from Emmanuel College with a degree in chemistry in 1962. She then studied medicine at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1966. She did a one-year internship in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, then began a doctorate program as a National Institutes of Health research fellow at Harvard. She finished her PhD in biological chemistry in 1972. She returned to clinical work, doing a residency program in radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. [1]

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Career

After finishing her training, she stayed at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital as an instructor of radiology beginning in 1974. By 1983, she had been appointed as a full professor of clinical epidemiology and radiology. [1] Since 1990, she has been the Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr. Barbara J. McNeil". Changing the Face of Medicine. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  2. ↑ "CV" (PDF). Retrieved 8 May 2019.
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