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

Early life and education

McNeil was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1941. She graduated from Emmanuel College with a degree in

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

in 1962. She then studied medicine at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1966. She did a one-year internship in

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, 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

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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. Since 1990, she has been the Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McNeil, Barbara Joyce American physicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Emmanuel College (Massachusetts) alumni Harvard Medical School alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine