Barbara J. McNeil, MD, PhD, serves as Interim Dean of Harvard Medical School

Dr. Barbara J. McNeil, Harvard Medical School Class of 1966, the Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy, and professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, was named interim Dean of Harvard Medical School in 2007 before Dean Jeffrey S. Flier took office. Dr. McNeil also served as interim dean in 2016 before Dean George Q. Daley took office.

Dr. McNeil has been a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty since 1983 and founding chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care policy since 1988. She was the first alumna of Harvard Medical School to be promoted to full professor at Harvard Medical School.