Dr. Shelly McNeil is the senior medical director of the Emerging and Re-emerging Infections Network.
A native of Kentville, NS, Dr. Shelly McNeil completed her medical education and internal medicine residency at Dalhousie University followed by a three-year fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Dr. McNeil returned to Dalhousie in 2000 and is currently Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Deputy Chief of the Department of Medicine. In addition to her clinical leadership roles, Dr. McNeil is a Clinician Scientist and Deputy Director of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology where her research focuses on the evaluation of the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases in adults with a focus on the elderly, assessment of the effectiveness of vaccines in the prevention of serious outcomes in adults and clinical trials of new adult vaccines. She is the Principal Investigator of the Serious Outcomes Surveillance Network of the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN).
Dr. McNeil lives in Halifax with her husband, Tim and daughter, Emma.
