Email

jm140109@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Pediatrics-Infectious Disease
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Clinic)

Texas Children's Clinical Care Center
6701 Fannin St., 16th Floor
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 824-4330

Education

BS from University of Texas At Austin

05/2002 - Austin, Texas, United States

Biology

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

07/2009 - Houston, Texas, United States

Pediatrics

Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

07/2012 - Houston, Texas, United States

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

MD from Baylor College Of Medicine

05/2006 - Houston, Texas, United States

Certifications

General Pediatrics

American Board of Pediatrics

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

American Board of Pediatrics

Professional Interests

• Staphylococcus aureus/MRSA
• Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis
• Vancomycin Pharmacokinetics
• Clinical Trials
• Chlorhexidine and Mupirocin Decolonization
• Gram-Positive Antibiotic Resistance
• Streptococcal disease
• Haemophilus influenzae

Websites

Selected Publications

• McNeil JC, Kok E, Vallejo JG, Campbell JR, Hulten KG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. " Decreased susceptibility to chlorhexidine among nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus at Texas Children’s Hospital: Clinical and Molecular Features. " Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 26666947.
• McNeil JC, Hulten KG, Kaplan SL, Mason EO. " Decreased susceptibility to retapamulin, mupirocin and chlorhexidine among Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing skin-and-soft-tissue infection in otherwise healthy children " Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014 ; 58 : 2878-83.
  Pubmed PMID: 24614375.
• Patel A, Mao KR, McNeil JC, Kaplan SL, Vallejo JG. " Fever and reversible laboratory abnormalities associated with prolonged use of piperacillin-tazobactam in children " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2015 ; 34 : 849-50.
  Pubmed PMID: 25961892.
• McNeil JC, Kok E, Vallejo JG, Forbes A, Lamberth L, Hulten KG, Vallejo JG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. " Healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in children: Evidence for reverse vancomycin creep and impact of vancomycin trough levels on outcome " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 26646549.
• McNeil JC, Hulten KG, Kaplan SL, Mason EO. " Mupirocin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus causing recurrent skin and soft tissue infections in children " Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 ; 55 : 2431-3.
  Pubmed PMID: 21282426.
• Ligon JA, Hulten KG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL, McNeil JC. " Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia without a localizing source in pediatric patients " Pediatr Infect Dis J.. 2014 ; 33 : e132-4.
  Pubmed PMID: 24732394.
• McNeil JC, Hulten KG, Kaplan SL, Schwarzwald HL, Mason EO. " Staphylococcus aureus infection in human immunodeficiency virus-positive children and adolescents " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012 ; 31 : 284-6.
  Pubmed PMID: 22016081.
• McNeil JC, Hulten KG, Kaplan SL, Mahoney DH, Mason EO. " Staphylococcus aureus infection in pediatric oncology patients: high rates of antimicrobial resistance, antiseptic tolerance and complications " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013 ; 32 : 124-8.
  Pubmed PMID: 22976051.
• McNeil JC, Munoz FM, Hulten KG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. " Staphylococcus aureus infections among children receiving a solid organ transplant: clinical features and antimicrobial susceptibility " Transplant Infect Dis. 2015 ; 17
  Pubmed PMID: 25573269.
• McNeil JC, Ligon JA, Hulten KG, Dreyer WJ, Heinle JS, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. " Staphylococcus aureus infections in children with congenital heart disease " J Pediatr Infect Dis Soc. 2013 ; 2 : 337-44.
  Pubmed PMID: 26619497.
• McNeil JC, Palazzi DL. " Ustilago as a cause of fungal peritonitis: case report and review of the literature " J Pediatr Infect Dis Soc. 2012 ; 1 : 337-9.
  Pubmed PMID: 26619426.
• McNeil JC, Forbes AR, Vallejo JG, Flores AR, Hulten KG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. " Role of Operative or Interventional Radiology-Guided Cultures for Osteomyelitis " Pediatrics. 2016 May ;
  Pubmed PMID: 2744827.
• McNeil JC, Hulten KG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. " Serotype 19A is the most common Streptococcus pneumoniae isolate in children with chronic sinusitis " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009 Sep ; 28 (9) : 766-8.
  Pubmed PMID: 19636285.
• McNeil JC. " Staphylococcus aureus- antimicrobial resistance and the immunocompromised child " Infect Drug Resist. 2014 May 7; 7 : 1117-27.
  Pubmed PMID: 24855381.
• Branson J, Vallejo JG, Flores AR, Hulten KG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL, McNeil JC. " The Contemporary Microbiology and Rates of Concomitant Osteomyelitis in Acute Septic Arthritis. " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016 ; Accepted
• McNeil JC. " Is it half a world away? Applying the ANZCOSS pediatric data to the US population " JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Oct 1; 170 (10) : 934-936.
  Pubmed PMID: 27533358.
• McNeil JC, Hulten KG, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. " The impact of healthcare exposure on genotypic antiseptic tolerance among pediatric Staphylococcus aureus infections " Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 Jun 27; 61 : e00223-17.
  Pubmed PMID: 28438928.
• McNeil JC, Kaplan SL, Vallejo JG. " The influence of the route of antibiotic administration, methicillin-susceptibility, vancomycin duration and serum trough concentration on outcomes of pediatric Staphylococcus aureus bacteremic osteoarticular infection " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2017 Jun ; 36 : 572-77.
  Pubmed PMID: 28027279.
• Kok EY, Vallejo JG, Sommer LM, Rosas L, Kaplan SL, Hulten KG, McNeil JC. " Association of Vancomycin MIC and Molecular Characteristics With Clinical Outcomes in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Acute Hematogenous Osteoarticular Infections in Children " Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 Apr ; 62 : e00084-18.
  Pubmed PMID: 29530845.
• McNeil JC, Vallejo JG, Hulten KG, Kaplan SL. " Osteoarticular Infections Following Open or Penetrating Trauma in Children in the Post-Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Era: The Impact of Enterobacter cloacae. " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2018 Mar 21;
  Pubmed PMID: 29570590.
• Hoyer EA, Joseph M, Dunn J, Weiner HL, Dimachkieh A, Flores AR, Sanson MA, Ayele H, Hanson BM, Kaplan SL, Vallejo JG, McNeil JC. " Increasing incidence of Streptococcus anginosus group intracranial infections associated with sinusitis, otitis media, and mastoiditis in children " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2024 ;
  Pubmed PMID: 38621168.
• McNeil JC, Sommer LM, Vallejo JG, Boyle M, Hulten KG, Kaplan SL, Fritz SA. " Going Back in Time: Increasing Penicillin Susceptibility among Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Osteoarticular Infections in Children " Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2023 ; 67 : e0119622.
  Pubmed PMID: 36598265.
• Aboulhosn A, Sanson MA, Vega LA, Segura MG, Sommer LM, Joseph M, McNeil JC, Flores AR. " Increases in group A streptococcal infections in the pediatric population in Houston, TX, 2022 " Clin Infect Dis. 2023 ; 77 : 351-354.
  Pubmed PMID: 37011014.
• Nack T, Vallejo JG, Dunn J, McNeil JC. " Invasive Group A Streptococcus in Infants Less Than One-Year of Age from 2012-2022: A Single Center Experience " J Pediatr Infect Dis Soc. 2024 ; 13 : 110-113.
  Pubmed PMID: 37978871.
• Hoyer EA, Joseph M, Kaplan SL, Vallejo JG, McNeil JC. " Predictive Factors to Guide Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy of Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis in Children " Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 ; 42 : 449-455.
  Pubmed PMID: 36795576.
• McNeil JC, Sommer LM, Vallejo JG, Hulten KG, Kaplan SL. " The association of qacA/B and smr carriage and Staphylococcus aureus survival following exposure to antiseptics in an ex vivo venous catheter disinfection model " Microbiol Spectr. 2023 ; 11 : e0333322.
  Pubmed PMID: 36862001.

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Funding

K23 Career Development Award
#NIAID K23AI099159

Grant funding from NIAID

Staphylococcus aureus resistance to topical antimicrobial agents in children

Antiseptic Tolerance Among Gram Positive Pathogens

Grant funding from Texas Children's Hospital Pediatric Pilot Research Fund

The Impact of Healthcare Exposure on Colonization with Antiseptic Tolerant Staphylococci in Children
#R01HS026896

Grant funding from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

An Investigation into the Contemporary Molecular Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Haemophilus influenzae in Children Through Active Surveillance

Grant funding from Merck, Sharpe and Dohme