Professor John McNeil

MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM

Head of Department
Head, Preventive Medicine Unit

Phone: +61 3 9903 0565
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John McNeil graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1971 and undertook his medical specialist training at the Royal Adelaide and Austin Hospitals. He subsequently completed his PhD in clinical pharmacology at the University of Melbourne and an MSc in epidemiology at the University of London.

After spending ten years in Clinical Pharmacology at the Austin Hospital he was appointed to the head of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (later renamed Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine) at Monash in 1986. His principal interests include cardiovascular epidemiology, drug safety and toxicology. He retains a clinical involvement as a vascular physician on the Vascular Medicine Unit at the Monash Medical Centre.

Member -
• National Blood Authority: Clinical Advisory Council
• National Blood Authority:Haemovigilance Project Working Group
• International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (Scientific Secretary, Board)
• Food Standards Australia & NZ (Fellow)
• NHMRC Program Grants Committee
• Therapeutics Goods Administration: Adverse Drug Reactions Council
• Metropolitan Ambulance Service Board of Management
Chair -
•Sir Edward Dunlop Research Foundation: Scientific Advisory Committee
• Alfred Hospital Ethics Committee