Mary is Chief Executive of the North Wales NHS Trust. Her experience and knowledge of health and social care systems in the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom respectively provides useful and necessary expertise to the Board.

After graduating from University in 1978, Mary trained and practiced as a medical technologist specialising in microbiology and haematology before taking on management of pathology services in 1982. In the mid 1980s she moved into hospital management.

Since settling in the UK in 1990, Mary spent ten years at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust in senior management positions, six years as Chief Executive of Northampton Primary Care Trust and six months with the Department of Health, Social Care and Public Safety, Northern Ireland on health and social care reform before she was appointed Chief Executive at the North East Wales NHS Trust in 2007.

She has been a contributor to national policy through previous work on the Health and Safety Commission’s Health Services Advisory Committee, the Department of Health (England) policy boards and committees and in her current role, the Welsh Assembly Government.

Mary holds a Bachelor of Science in Bacteriology and Public Health from Washington State University, USA (1978), a Masters in Business Administration from University of Leicester, England (1995) and a Masters in Medical Law (LLM) from the University of Wales in Cardiff (2001).

In 1996, Mary was awarded an honorary MBE in recognition of her work on risk management in the NHS, an honour afforded to very few Americans and something of which she is particularly proud.