Christopher McNeil, DO
Director, Black Men in White Coats Oklahoma, Founder and creator, Youth Medical Mentorship Inc.
Dr. McNeil is an Emergency Medicine Physician, founder and creator of Youth Medical Mentorship Inc, and elected local official for the Union Public Schools Board of Education. He is also an active Advisory Board Member of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance, and the Oklahoma National Strength and Conditioning Advisory Board as a former division-one athlete. He serves as a task force member for the Building Healthy Communities Initiative of the Health Performance and Research Institute at OSU and regularly provide content and engagement for Project ECHO. Dr. McNeil an Aspen Global Innovators Group Healthy Communities Fellow for the Class of 2023 and remains a staunch community leader and advocate. He has been published by the American Medical Association and won multiple national awards as a medical student including being nominated for the student doctor of the year.
His current research is in identifying the return on investment for recruiting, retaining, and advancing more underrepresented health professionals in specific communities at a socioeconomic disadvantage. This neighborhood approach to workforce development has been the foundation for the work with Youth Medical Mentorship, Inc and the success in mentoring and impacting over 1200 students, recruiting over 300 volunteers, creating 41 jobs, raising $1,017,000, reaching 5 different states, and generating pathways and mentors for individuals in communities to sustain a home-grown health professional workforce.