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Deborah Mcneil

ResearcherObstetrics and GynecologyUniversity of Alberta

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Deborah Mcneil

Researcher

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Health Sciences

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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17 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2022.

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Research

Evaluation Health Equity Implementation Science Indigenous Women Maternity Care Mobile Clinic Interventions Northern, Rural, And Remote Perinatal Health

Latest papers

Hospital level of service, rural-urban location, and neonatal resuscitation interventions: A population study in Alberta Canada from 2000 to 2020.
Resuscitation · 2025
"VID-KIDS" Video-Feedback Interaction Guidance for Depressed Mothers and Their Infants: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Indigenous maternal and infant outcomes and women's experiences of midwifery care: A mixed-methods systematic review.
Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2025 · first author

All 29 publications

Latest funding

Closing the Gap in Perinatal Health Disparities in Rural, Remote and Northern Indigenous Communities: Implementation of a Community-Led Mobile Perinatal Health Clinic Model
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$579,720
Which elements contribute to building effective collaborations to promote health system culture and practice change towards improved care for mothers and babies with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?
CIHR · 2022 · Supervisor
$108,500
Intervention to improve perinatal outcomes following the 2016 Alberta wildfires: administration, effectiveness and community implementation
CIHR · 2016 · Principal investigator
$500,000

All 4 grants and awards

29 publications.

Hospital level of service, rural-urban location, and neonatal resuscitation interventions: A population study in Alberta Canada from 2000 to 2020.

Pickett B, Crawford S, McNeil D, Schmölzer GM, Soraisham A, Pan B, Shonoski H, Aziz K, Law BHY

Resuscitation2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110497 PMID: 39814125

"VID-KIDS" Video-Feedback Interaction Guidance for Depressed Mothers and Their Infants: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Tryphonopoulos PD, McNeil D, Oxford M, Dennis CL, Novick J, Deane AJ, Wu K, Kurbatfinski S, Griggs K, Letourneau N

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025

DOI: 10.3390/bs15030279 PMID: 40150174

Indigenous maternal and infant outcomes and women's experiences of midwifery care: A mixed-methods systematic review.

McNeil D, Elliott SA, Wong A, Kromm S, Bialy L, Montesanti S, Purificati-Fuñe A, Juul S, Roach P, Bromely J, Tailfeathers E, Amyotte M, Oster RT

Birth (Berkeley, Calif.)2025First author

DOI: 10.1111/birt.12841 PMID: 38898696

Development and validation of the Cannabis Exposure in Pregnancy Tool (CEPT): a mixed methods study.

Chaput KH, McMorris CA, Metcalfe A, Ringham C, McNeil D, Konschuh S, Sycuro LJ, McDonald SW

BMC pregnancy and childbirth2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12884-024-06485-0 PMID: 38627667

Knowledge translation strategies used for sustainability of an evidence-based intervention in child health: a multimethod qualitative study.

Cassidy CE, Flynn R, Campbell A, Dobson L, Langley J, McNeil D, Milne E, Zanoni P, Churchill M, Benzies KM

BMC nursing2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12912-024-01777-4 PMID: 38368328

Development and evaluation of virtual simulation games to increase the confidence and self-efficacy of healthcare learners in vaccine communication, advocacy, and promotion.

Doucette EJ, Fullerton MM, Pateman M, Lip A, Houle SKD, Kellner JD, Leal J, MacDonald SE, McNeil D, Tyerman J, Luctkar-Flude M, Davidson S, Constantinescu C

BMC medical education2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05169-9 PMID: 38403639

A protocol for the formative evaluation of the implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in child and adolescent mental health services as part of a learning health system.

McCabe E, Dyson M, McNeil D, Hindmarch W, Ortega I, Arnold PD, Dimitropoulos G, Clements R, Santana MJ, Zwicker JD

Health research policy and systems2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12961-024-01174-y PMID: 39010106

"You can push these conversations, but don't push your patient away": healthcare learner perspectives on virtual simulation games as an educational approach to address vaccine hesitancy.

Doucette EJ, Pateman M, Fullerton MM, Lip A, Houle SKD, Kellner JD, Leal J, MacDonald SE, McNeil D, Davidson S, Constantinescu C

Frontiers in public health2024

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1408871 PMID: 39022406

The Alberta Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Mother-Baby Care ImprovEmeNT (NASCENT) program: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial of a hospital-level Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome rooming-in intervention.

Wine O, McNeil D, Kromm SK, Foss K, Caine V, Clarke D, Day N, Johnson DW, Rittenbach K, Wood S, Hicks M

BMC health services research2023

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-09440-5 PMID: 37149626

Unplanned Extubations Requiring Reintubation in Pediatric Critical Care: An Epidemiological Study.

Wollny K, McNeil D, Moss SJ, Sajobi T, Parsons SJ, Benzies K, Metcalfe A

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2023

DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003167 PMID: 37026721

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Evaluation Dear Professor Mcneil, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Hospital level of service, rural-urban location, and neonatal resuscitation interventions: A population study in Alberta Canada from 2000 to 2020." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Closing the Gap in Perinatal Health Disparities in Rural, Remote and Northern Indigenous Communities: Implementation of a Community-Led Mobile Perinatal Health Clinic Model" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Deborah Mcneil

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Hospital level of service, rural-urban location, and neonatal resuscitation interventions: A population study in Alberta Canada from 2000 to 2020.

"VID-KIDS" Video-Feedback Interaction Guidance for Depressed Mothers and Their Infants: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Indigenous maternal and infant outcomes and women's experiences of midwifery care: A mixed-methods systematic review.

Development and validation of the Cannabis Exposure in Pregnancy Tool (CEPT): a mixed methods study.

Knowledge translation strategies used for sustainability of an evidence-based intervention in child health: a multimethod qualitative study.

Development and evaluation of virtual simulation games to increase the confidence and self-efficacy of healthcare learners in vaccine communication, advocacy, and promotion.

A protocol for the formative evaluation of the implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in child and adolescent mental health services as part of a learning health system.

"You can push these conversations, but don't push your patient away": healthcare learner perspectives on virtual simulation games as an educational approach to address vaccine hesitancy.

The Alberta Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Mother-Baby Care ImprovEmeNT (NASCENT) program: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial of a hospital-level Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome rooming-in intervention.

Unplanned Extubations Requiring Reintubation in Pediatric Critical Care: An Epidemiological Study.

Closing the Gap in Perinatal Health Disparities in Rural, Remote and Northern Indigenous Communities: Implementation of a Community-Led Mobile Perinatal Health Clinic Model

Which elements contribute to building effective collaborations to promote health system culture and practice change towards improved care for mothers and babies with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?

Intervention to improve perinatal outcomes following the 2016 Alberta wildfires: administration, effectiveness and community implementation

Childhood Immunization in Alberta First Nations People: Measurement of Coverage and Identification of Barriers and Supports

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