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Professor Geraldine McNeill

Professor Geraldine McNeill
Professor Geraldine McNeill
Professor Geraldine McNeill

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

Emeritus Professor

About
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.

Publications

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  • An exploratory study of the associations between maternal iron status in pregnancy and childhood wheeze and atopy

    Nwaru, B. I., Hayes, H., Gambling, L., Craig, L. C. A., Allan, K., Prabhu, N., Turner, S. W., McNeill, G., Erkkola, M., Seaton, A., McArdle, H. J., Devereux, G.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 112, no. 12, pp. 2018-2027
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • "It's a balance of just getting things right": mothers' views about pre-school childhood obesity and obesity prevention in Scotland

    Douglas, F., Clark, J., Craig, L., Campbell, J., McNeill, G.
    BMC Public Health, vol. 14, 1009
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A qualitative study of independent fast food vendors near secondary schools in disadvantaged Scottish neighbourhoods.

    Estrade, M. M., Dick, S., Crawford, F., Jepson, R., Ellaway, A., McNeill, G.
    BMC Public Health
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Results from Scotland's 2013 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth.

    Reilly, J. J., Dick, S., McNeill, G., Tremblay, M.
    Journal of physical activity & health, vol. 11, no. s1, pp. S93-97
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Physical capability and subsequent positive mental wellbeing in older people: findings from five HALCyon cohorts

    Cooper, R., Stafford, M., Hardy, R., Aihie Sayer, A., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Cooper, C., Craig, L., Deary, I. J., Gallacher, J., McNeill, G., Starr, J. M., Kuh, D., Gale, C. R., on behalf of the HALCyon study team
    Age, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 445-456
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A genome-wide association study implicates the APOE locus in nonpathological cognitive ageing

    Davies, G., Harris, S. E., Reynolds, C. A., Payton, A., Knight, H. M., Liewald, D. C. M., Lopez, L. M., Luciano, M. C., Gow, A. J., Corley, J., Henderson, R. D., Murray, C. L., Pattie, A., Fox, H. C., Redmond, P., Lutz, M. W., Chiba-Falek, O., Linnertz, C., Saith, S., Haggarty, P., McNeill, G., Ke, X., Ollier, W., Horan, M., Roses, A. D., Ponting, C. P., Porteous, D. J., Tenesa, A., Pickles, A., Starr, J. M., Whalley, L. J., Pedersen, N. L., Pendleton, N., Visscher, P. M., Deary, I. J.
    Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 76-87
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Associations between dietary and lifestyle risk factors and colorectal cancer in the Scottish population

    Theodoratou, E., Farrington, S. M., Tenesa, A., McNeill, G., Cetnarskyj, R., Korakakis, E., Din, F. V. N., Porteous, M. E., Dunlop, M. G., Campbell, H.
    European Journal of Cancer Prevention, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 8-17
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Prevalence and year-on-year trends in childhood thinness in a whole population study

    Smith, S., Craig, L. C. A., Raja, E. A., McNeill, G., Turner, S. W.
    Archives of Disease in Childhood, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 58-61
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A randomised feasibility trial with women treated for breast cancer comparing a commercial weight loss programme alone; with additional breast cancer focused dietitian-led groups and waiting- list control: The Breast Cancer Healthy Weight (BRIGHT) Trial

    Newlands, R., Clark, J., Craig, L. C. A., Hoddinott, P., Heys, S. D., McNeill, G.
    American Institute of Cancer Research Annual Research Conference on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Complex variation in measures of general intelligence and cognitive change

    Rowe, S. J., Rowlatt, A., Davies, G., Harris, S. E., Porteous, D. J., Liewald, D. C., McNeill, G., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., Tenesa, A.
    PloS ONE, vol. 9, no. 3, e81189
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • "It was an education in portion size":: Experience of eating a healthy diet and barriers to long term dietary change

    Macdiarmid, J. I., Loe, J., Kyle, J., McNeill, G.
    Appetite, vol. 71, pp. 411-419
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Agriculture for improved nutrition: The current research landscape

    Turner, R., Hawkes, C., Waage, J., Ferguson, E., Haseen, F., Homans, H., Hussein, J., Johnstone, D., Marais, D., McNeill, G., Shankar, B.
    Food & Nutrition Bulletin, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 369-377
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Breastfeeding and introduction of complementary foods during infancy in relation to the risk of asthma and atopic diseases up to 10 years

    Nwaru, B. I., Craig, L. C. A., Allan, K., Prabhu, N., Turner, S. W., McNeill, G., Erkkola, M., Seaton, A., Devereux, G. S.
    Clinical & experimental allergy, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 1263-1273
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Do dietary patterns influence cognitive function in old age?

    Corley, J., Starr, J. M., McNeill, G., Deary, I. J.
    International Psychogeriatrics, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 1393-1407
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • When is a Healthy Diet Not a Sustainable Diet?

    Macdiarmid, J., Kyle, J., Horgan, G., McNeill, G.
    Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism, vol. 63, no. Suppl. 1, pp. 973
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Maternal obesity during pregnancy and premature mortality from cardiovascular event in adult offspring: follow-up of 1 323 275 person years

    Reynolds, R. M., Allan, K. M., Raja, E. A., Bhattacharya, S., McNeill, G., Hannaford, P. C., Sarwar, N., Lee, A. J., Bhattacharya, S., Norman, J. E.
    British Medical Journal, vol. 347, no. -, f4539
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Telomere Length and Physical Performance at Older Ages: An Individual Participant Meta-Analysis

    Gardner, M. P., Martin-Ruiz, C., Cooper, R., Hardy, R., Sayer, A. A., Cooper, C., Deary, I. J., Gallacher, J., Harris, S. E., Shiels, P. G., Starr, J. M., Kuh, D., von Zglinicki, T., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Alfred, T., Aucott, P., Craig, L., Day, I., Demakakos, P., Elliott, J., Gale, C., Goodwin, J., Lennox, A., Martin, R., McNeill, G., Mishra, G., Mulla, Z., Murray, E., Parsons, S., Power, C., Richards, M., Southall, H., Steptoe, A., Tilling, K., Whalley, L.
    PloS ONE, vol. 8, no. 7, e69526
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Defining "sustainable" and "healthy" diets in an era of great environmental concern and increased prevalence of chronic diseases Reply

    Macdiarmid, J. I., Kyle, J., Horgan, G. W., McNeill, G.
    The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 97, no. 5, pp. 1152-1153
    Contributions to Journals: Letters

  • Interventions to promote weight loss in women treated for breast cancer: a systematic review

    Newlands, R., Haseen, F., Craig, L., Hoddinott, P., Heys, S., McNeill, G.
    Obesity Facts, vol. 6, no. Suppl. 1, pp. 85
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Reply to I Hawkins and J Sabaté

    Macdiarmid, J. I., Kyle, J., Horgan, G. W., McNeill, G.
    The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 97, no. 5, pp. 1152-1153
    Contributions to Journals: Letters

  • The effect of dietary and exercise interventions on body weight in men diagnosed with prostate cancer: A systematic review

    Mohamad, H., Haseen, F., Craig, L. C. A., Heys, S. D., N'Dow, J. M. O., McNeill, G.
    Obesity Facts, vol. 6, no. Suppl.1, pp. 118-119
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Main final report of a research study commissioned to inform a preschool child weight management programme within Grampian: Parents' and health visitors' prespectives

    Douglas, F. C. G., Craig, L. C. A., Clark, J., Gilmartin, A. E., Dick, S., McNeill, G.
    Commissioned by GRAMPIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST. NHS Grampian. 85 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

  • Growing up before growing out: secular trends in height, weight and obesity in 5–6-year-old children born between 1970 and 2006

    Smith, S. M., Craig, L. C. A., Raja, E. A., McNeill, G., Turner, S. W.
    Archives of Disease in Childhood, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 269-273
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The associations between personality, diet and body mass index in older people

    Mõttus, R., McNeill, G., Jia, X., Craig, L. C. A., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J.
    Health Psychology, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 353-360
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Vitamin D in pregnancy at high latitude in Scotland

    Haggarty, P., Campbell, D. M., Knox, S., Horgan, G. W., Hoad, G., Boulton, E., McNeill, G., Wallace, A. M.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 109, no. 5, pp. 898-905
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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