Dr. O’Neal is an expert in women’s health in Neurology.  She has contributed both in clinical expertise and innovation.  This unique subspecialty encompasses those issues specific to women with neurological disease.  She had made significant scholarly contributions to bring this subspecialty to national and international attention including authoring multiple papers, chapters and editing many of the seminal books in the field.

In 2011, Dr. O’Neal  became the Director of the Women’s Neurology program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  This unique program aims to meet the health care needs of women suffering from neurological disease and is focused on the sex differences in medical evaluation, diagnosis, implementation of treatment and care. This was the first program of its kind anywhere and today it is an international model.  She also has an approved Women’s Neurology fellowship, one of only 3 such fellowships internationally. She developed the women’s neurology curriculum for a new Harvard Medical School, women’s health elective.  Along with other experts, she developed a women’s neurology curriculum accepted by the American Academy of Neurology, AAN,

For three years, she led the AANs, national course on the Neurology of Pregnancy with an audience from 200-500 national and international participants. She routinely lectures on this subject both nationally and internationally.  She is recognized as a subject expert by the AAN which is why she was asked to write the Obstetric/Gynecologic Disorders and the Nervous System section and edit the Neurology of Pregnancy for Continuum- “the official review journal of the AAN written by authors who are known experts in their field”. 

She is completing the nineth year of a Harvard Medical School approved course in Women’s Neurology and Psychiatry with both regional and national participants and has  co-directed an obstetrical neurology course also with national participants.