Associate Professor
Jesse Brown VA Medical Center/Northwestern University
Dr. Jacqueline Neal is a board-certified physician in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and a practicing physiatrist at the Jesse Brown VA in Chicago. She is an expert in critical care rehabilitation, early mobility, Long COVID, and medical education. She served as chief resident in 2012, completed the Northwestern University Searle Teaching Fellowship in 2015, serves on the Medical Education committee for the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency program at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/Northwestern, was inducted into the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators in 2018, and serves as a co-director for the Emerging Issues in Healthcare VA-ECHO. She 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). Additionally, she was awarded the Mark Walcott Award in 2022, informally known as the VA “physician of the year,” the highest honor a clinician can receive in the VA system. Dr. Neal is a Co-lead for the national VHA Long COVID Field Advisory Board Strategies and Best Practices Group.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM AST
