Mary Burrows MBE
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.