JacquelineDianeNealMD

Summary

• Dr. Jacqueline Neal is associate professor in the department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a practicing physiatrist at the Jesse Brown VA in Chicago. Dr. Neal received her BSE and MSE degrees in biomedical engineering with a concentration in rehabilitation engineering from the University of Michigan. She also completed medical school at the University of Michigan, and residency at Northwestern-McGaw Center for Medical Education and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, now known as the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, where she served as chief resident. She is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She was inducted into the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators in 2018 and earned both an Outstanding Teacher Award from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (2017), and an Outstanding Leadership Award from the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (2017), and the Wolcott Award--VHA Physician of the Year in 2022 where she was selected amongst >26,000 physicians. Her professional and research interests include critical care rehabilitation, hospital-wide patient mobility, medical education, and Long COVID. She is currently the director of the Jesse Brown VA Long COVID program, a co-lead for the VHA-wide Strategies and Best Practices Long COVID Field Advisory Board, and co-director of the Federal Interagency Long COVID Care Coordination Counsel Clinical Practices Workgroup under the White House Office of Assistant Secretary for Health Office of Long COVID Research and Practice.