Professor Geraldine McNeill

MB ChB, MSc, PhD, RNutr (Public Health), FAfN

Emeritus Professor

Email Address: g.mcneill@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address: Polwarth Building 1:069, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
School/Department: School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Geraldine's interest in Nutrition was aroused during higher education in Medicine and Physical Anthropology at the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham and a year spent as a volunteer with Save the Children Fund on a Mother and Child health and nutrition project in Burkina Faso, W. Africa. She undertook an MSc in Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine followed by a PhD project on socio-economic and seasonal patterns of energy intake and expenditure in adults in rural S. India. In 1986 she moved to Aberdeen, Scotland, to establish a Human Nutrition Unit at the Rowett Research Institute. Since then she has worked in nutrition research and training at the Rowett Institute and University of Aberdeen, focussing on dietary assessment and relationships between diet and health outcomes ranging from obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer and cognitive decline in adults and obesity, asthma and dental disease in children. She was lead for obesity in the Scottish School of Public Health Research, a 2-year collaboration between academics, practitioners and policy-makers.

Geraldine is author of over 125 peer-reviewed papers (Scopus H-index 37) and a number of peer-reviewed research reports. She was coordinator of the MSc Human Nutrition and Metabolism programme at the University of Aberdeen from 1991-2000 and has supervised or co-supervised 18 PhD theses to completion. From 2008-14 she led the Public Health Nutrition research group in the University of Aberdeen. She has been a member of research ethics committees, journal editorial boards, research grant funding panels and government advisory committees. In 2014 she took early retirement but continues to work part time as an Emeritus professor.

In 2015 Geraldine was elected to the Council of the Association for Nutrition (AfN) and currently chairs the AfN Registration Committee. She also advises the Scottish Centre for Social Research on dietary aspects of the Scottish Health Survey.

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Description and validation of the ActiReg: a novel instrument to measure physical activity and energy expenditure

Blood pressure in relation to birth weight in twins and singleton controls matched for gestational age

Genetic variation and the lipid response to dietary intervention: a systematic review

Size at birth, fasting glucose and insulin levels and insulin resistance in adult twins.

Statistical approaches for assessing the relative validity of a food-frequency questionnaire: use of correlation coefficients and the kappa statistic

Predictors of micronutrient status in men and women over 75 years old living in the community

Are the proposed limits of energy intake:basal metabolic rate and dietary nitrogen:urinary nitrogen ratios suitable for validation of food intake?

Change in intra-abdominal adipose tissue volume during weight loss in obese men and women: correlation between magnetic resonance imaging and anthropometric measurements

Usefulness of anthropometry and DXA in predicting intra-abdominal fat in obese men and women

Measurement of abdominal fat by magnetic resonance imaging, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometry in non-obese men and women

Dietary intake and tissue concentration of fatty acids in omnivore, vegetarian and diabetic pregnancy

Free-living energy expenditure of adult men assessed by continuous heart-rate monitoring and doubly-labelled water

Energy expenditure during heavy work and its interaction with body weight

The effect of protein intake on 24h energy expenditure during energy restriction

Energetic consequences of mild Giardia intestinalis infestation in Mexican children

The Influence of Exercise on the Energy Requirements of Adult Males in the UK

Effects of diet composition on 24h energy expenditure during energy restriction

Imaging Techniques for the Assessment of Body-Composition

Basal metabolic rate and body fatness of adult men in northern Mexico

Total and Subcutaneous Adipose-Tissue in Women: the measurement of distribution and accurate prediction of quantity by using magnetic resonance imaging

Body fat in lean and overweight women estimated by six methods

Body composition: the precision and accuracy of new methods and their suitablity for longitudinal studies

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