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Dr. O’Neil is an assistant professor in the Programs in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences. She is a child health and rehabilitation researcher with a focus on improving health behaviors, especially physical activity levels, in children who are overweight/obese and those with disabilities such as cerebral palsy. Dr. O’Neil uses a socio-ecological approach in examining determinants of child health behaviors and outcomes of health promotion interventions to include the influence of environmental and personal factors and behaviors in health outcomes. Dr. O’Neil teaches in three of the Programs: the professional DPT program; the post-professional DPT program and the PhD program. Her areas of teaching expertise are in pediatric neurorehabilitation, fitness and health promotion; clinical measures and research design; and health services and health policy. Dr. O’Neil has a secondary appointment in the School of Public Health and teaches in the Department of Health Management and Policy. Dr. O’Neil advises PT and PH students in capstone research projects. Dr. O’Neil is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, Section on Pediatrics and is actively involved in the Research Committee for the Section. She is an active member in the Section of Maternal and Child Health in the American Public Health Association. She is active in state and local PT and public health committees with a research and service focus on improving health outcomes for children and their families.
Clinical
Area
Research
Areas
·
Coordination
of health care services for children with special health care
needs (CSHCN)
·
Health
services research for CAHCN
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Access,
utilization, and satisfaction outcomes
·
Patient-provider
relationships in pediatric physical therapy
·
Therapy
outcomes in community based settings
Background
- Providence
College,
BS, Biology
- Duke
University,
MS,
Physical Therapy
- University
of North
Carolina,
Chapel
Hill,
School
of Public
Health;
MPH, Masters in Public Health, Maternal & Child Health
- MCP
Hahnemann
University,
PhD, pediatric physical therapy
- Clinical
Support and Research Consultant: Ken Crest Early Intervention
Services
- Consultant:
Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Division of Early
Childhood, Youth, and Women’s Health
- Lecturer:
Drexel
University
School
of Public Health
- Member:
Practice Committee, APTA, Section on Pediatrics
- Co-chair,
Task Force on Clinical Pathways, APTA, Section on Pediatrics
Current
Projects
- Externally
Funded Research: Philadelphia Department of Public Health:
“Facilitating Communication and Coordination between Medical
and Early Intervention Communities to Improve Services for
Families and Children with Special Health Care; Role: Co-investigator
- Collaboration:
Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia;
Care coordination Project for children with complex, chronic
medical conditions
- Design
phase: Program development & evaluation for a fitness
and obesity prevention program for children & adolescents
in an urban setting
- Research
Faculty collaboration: grant writing: Physical and Occupational
Therapy in Early Intervention)
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