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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Description and validation of the ActiReg: a novel instrument to measure physical activity and energy expenditure
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 1001-1008Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN20041272
Blood pressure in relation to birth weight in twins and singleton controls matched for gestational age
American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 158, no. 2, pp. 150-155Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwg130
Genetic variation and the lipid response to dietary intervention: a systematic review
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 77, no. 5, pp. 1098-1111Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSize at birth, fasting glucose and insulin levels and insulin resistance in adult twins.
Twin Research, vol. 6, pp. 302-306Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1375/136905203322296665
Statistical approaches for assessing the relative validity of a food-frequency questionnaire: use of correlation coefficients and the kappa statistic
Public Health Nutrition, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 313-321Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/PHN2002429
Predictors of micronutrient status in men and women over 75 years old living in the community
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 555-561Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN2002706
Are the proposed limits of energy intake:basal metabolic rate and dietary nitrogen:urinary nitrogen ratios suitable for validation of food intake?
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 85, no. 6, pp. 725-731Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN2001327
Change in intra-abdominal adipose tissue volume during weight loss in obese men and women: correlation between magnetic resonance imaging and anthropometric measurements
International Journal of Obesity, vol. 24, pp. 607-613Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsefulness of anthropometry and DXA in predicting intra-abdominal fat in obese men and women
Obesity Research, vol. 8, pp. 36-42Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMeasurement of abdominal fat by magnetic resonance imaging, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometry in non-obese men and women
International Journal of Obesity, vol. 23, pp. 686-692Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDietary intake and tissue concentration of fatty acids in omnivore, vegetarian and diabetic pregnancy
Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 209-220Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0952-3278(98)90065-5
Free-living energy expenditure of adult men assessed by continuous heart-rate monitoring and doubly-labelled water
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 78, no. 5, pp. 695-708Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19970188
Energy expenditure during heavy work and its interaction with body weight
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 359-373Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19970038
The effect of protein intake on 24h energy expenditure during energy restriction
International Journal of Obesity, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 727-732Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEnergetic consequences of mild Giardia intestinalis infestation in Mexican children
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 860-865Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Influence of Exercise on the Energy Requirements of Adult Males in the UK
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 799-813Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffects of diet composition on 24h energy expenditure during energy restriction
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 218AContributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/PNS19940077
Imaging Techniques for the Assessment of Body-Composition
The Journal of Nutrition, vol. 124, no. 8, pp. S1546-S1550Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsBasal metabolic rate and body fatness of adult men in northern Mexico
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 205-211Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTotal and Subcutaneous Adipose-Tissue in Women: the measurement of distribution and accurate prediction of quantity by using magnetic resonance imaging
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 18-25Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/54.1.18
Body fat in lean and overweight women estimated by six methods
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 95-103Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBody composition: the precision and accuracy of new methods and their suitablity for longitudinal studies
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 423-436Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/PNS19900050