Department of Family Medicine

Faculty of Medicine

Dr Karen  McNeil, MD, CCFP, FCFP

DFM_EM and KM_2021
Department of Family Medicine

Email: karen.anne.mcneil@dal.ca
Phone: 902-473-4741
Mailing Address: 
Dalhousie Family Medicine
1465 Brenton Street, Suite 402
Halifax NS B3J 3T4
 

Education

  • MD, Dalhousie University
  • BSc, St Frances Xavier University

Research Interests

Dr. McNeil’s research interests involve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). She has taken part in the Canadian Consensus Guidelines and has written about communication, behaviours that challenge in this population. Her present research is on the barriers and facilitators for the periodic health check in the IDD population.

Selected Grants

Nova Scotia Health Research Fund
$49,927.50
Jan 2024 - Jan 2027
Designing behaviour change interventions to improve the uptake of periodic health checks for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD): A co-designed, multi-stakeholder approach.
Principal Investigator: McNeil K
Study Team: Achenback J, Dunn K, Delahunty- Pike A, Lawson B, Diepstra H, Sulyman M, Olugbenga W,

Nova Scotia Health Research Fund
$24,980.00
Jan 2024 - Jan 2027
Qualitative research project, developing a multifaceted intervention to support annual health checks for adults with intellectual & developmental disabilities: A step toward health equity”
Principal Investigator: McNeil K.

Selected Publications

McNeil Karen, Achenbach J, Lawson B, Delehunty Pike A, Barber B, Deipstra H, Toward developing a intervention to support periodic health checks for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Striving for health equity J Appl Res Intellect Disability 2024 Jan;37(1):e13169 doi: 10.1111/jar.1316

Sullivan William, Heng John, McNeil Karen, Bach Michael, Henze Meghan, Vogt Janet, Praxis: Promoting health care decision-making capabilities of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Canadian Family Physician April2019, 65(Suppl 1): 27-29.