Dr. Maya O’Neil is a Professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry, and Associate Director of External Data Collaborations with OHSU’s Center for AI enabled Learning Health Science (CAILHS). She is a Psychology Program Manager, Associate Director for Education for the VISN20 Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), and Co-Director of the MIRECC Advanced Fellowship Program in Mental Illness Research and Treatment at the Portland VA, where she is a licensed, credentialed, and privileged neuropsychologist (OR LIC #2248). She is a Core Investigator with the Portland VA’s Health Systems Research Center of Innovation, the Center for the Involvement of Veterans in Care (CIVIC) where she leads a program of research broadly focused on advancing quantitative methods for clinical and health systems research.

Dr. O’Neil is the Principal Investigator of over $15 million in grant funding from VA, DoD, NIH, and AHRQ including grants focused on quantitative and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data methods, largescale data harmonization and visualization, evidence synthesis, data repository development, health systems research, mental health, and cognitive functioning, including clinical trials. Many of these projects have been named in VA’s national budget and used to address major national priorities such as the PREVENTS Executive Order and Hannon Act 305. She has led multiple evidence synthesis and data repository development, dissemination, harmonization, and analysis projects most recently focused on PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and blast, and suicide prevention (see links to these publicly available data resources below). She is also a biostatistician with an emphasis on development and validation of assessment tools, application of advanced quantitative methods to health systems research, interactive data visualization, structural equation modeling and factor analysis, and evidence synthesis methodology and dissemination.

As a clinician, Dr. O’Neil conducts evidence-based mental health treatments for depression and PTSD, neurocognitive assessments, and cognitive rehabilitation with Veterans who have PTSD, TBI, and other mental and physical health comorbidities. Dr. O’Neil also conducts clinical trial research on Compensatory Cognitive Training. She provides clinical and research supervision and mentoring to trainees and junior faculty at the VA and OHSU including advising students in OHSU’s APA accredited Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program. She is licensed, credentialled, and privileged at the Portland VA.