MB ChB, MSc, PhD, RNutr (Public Health), FAfN
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- 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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Dietary vitamin B6 intake and the risk of colorectal cancer
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 171-182Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAre young children presenting with cough in the absence of wheeze at increased risk for asthma in later childhood?
Thorax, vol. 62, pp. 44Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNutritional status and subsequent all-cause mortality in men and women aged 75 years or over living in the community
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 593-599Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114507725163
Dietary fatty acids and colorectal cancer: A case-control study
American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 166, no. 2, pp. 181-195Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwm063
Dietary flavonoid intake is associated with bone mineral density in early postmenopausal Scottish women
Bone Research Society Annual Meeting 2007, pp. 1121-1122Contributions to Journals: AbstractsEffects of infusion time and addition of milk on content and absorption of polyphenols from black tea
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 4889-4894Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jf070351y
Effect of multivitamin and multimineral supplementation on cognitive function in men and women aged 65 years and over: A randomised controlled trial
Nutrition Journal, vol. 6, 10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/handle/2164/150
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-6-10
Maternal vitamin D intake during pregnancy and early childhood wheezing
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 853-859Contributions to Journals: ArticlesChanging Trends in Sex Specific Prevalence Rates for Childhood Asthma, Eczema, and Hay Fever
Pediatric Pulmonology, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 60-65Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppul.20545
Maternal and neonatal plasma selenium and risk of early childhood wheeze
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 66, no. Supplement OCA-B, pp. 94A-94AContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665107005952
Parents can distinguish between different characteristics of wheeze at two years of age and this has implications for asthma outcome at five years of age
Thorax, vol. 61, no. Suppl. 2, pp. II26-II27Contributions to Journals: AbstractsEffect of B vitamins and genetics on success of in-vitro fertilisation: prospective cohort study
The Lancet, vol. 367, no. 9521, pp. 1513-1519Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68651-0
Maternal intake of antioxidant vitamins in pregnancy in relation to maternal and fetal plasma levels at delivery
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 771-778Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN20051718
A life-course approach to the aetiology of late-onset dementias
The Lancet neurology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 87-96Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(05)70286-6
Dietary flavanones are associated with increased bone mineral density and reduced bone resorption in early postmenopausal Scottish women
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 65, no. Supplement OCA-B , pp. 54AContributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002966510600526X
Low maternal vitamin E intake during pregnancy is associated with asthma in 5-year-old children
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 174, no. 5, pp. 499-507Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200512-1946OC
The influence of birth weight and genetic factors on lipid levels: a study in adult twins
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 504-510Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN20051582
Effect of multivitamin and multimineral supplements on morbidity from infections in older people (MAVIS trial): pragmatic, randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial
British Medical Journal, vol. 331, no. 7512, pp. 324-329Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7512.324
Dietary flavonoid intakes in early postmenopausal Scottish women
Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society (2005), pp. 85AContributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/PNS2004XXX
Antioxidant intake in pregnancy in relation to wheeze and eczema in the first two years of life
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 171, no. 2, pp. 121-128Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200402-220OC
Possible protective effect of dietary flavonoids in colorectal cancer: a case-control study
Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society (2005), pp. 66AContributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/PNS2004XXX
The effect of birth weight on clottable and intact fibrinogen levels in adult twins and singleton controls
Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, vol. 6, pp. 1143-1148Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-7836.2005.01431.x
The effect of genetic variation on the lipid response to dietary change: recent findings
Current Opinion in Lipidology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 61-67Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00041433-200502000-00011
The role of genetic and environmental factors in the assocation between birthweight and blood pressure: evidence from meta-analysis of twin studies.
International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 995-1001Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyh260
Seasonal changes in markers of oxidative damage to lipids and DNA: correlations with seasonal variations in diet
Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, vol. 551, no. 1-2, pp. 135-144Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2004.02.021