Maria Parsonage
Chair
Maria qualified as a nurse in 1995 and worked across respiratory medicine, coronary and critical care in her early career. She became a cardiac specialist nurse in 2000 and gained her BSc in specialist practice in 2003. With a strong interest in advanced practice she went on to become an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in 2002 and completed an MSc in Clinical Nursing with distinction in 2005. This was followed by a non-medical prescribing qualification in 2006 and NMC Sign off Mentor in 2009.
Since 2007, Maria has worked across advanced practice boundaries currently leading as a Respiratory Consultant Nurse and Pleural Disease Specialist. Her local responsibilities include providing specialist clinical assessment and advanced clinical skills, prescribing and policy development across the breadth of respiratory medicine but with a specialist interest in pleural disease.
Nationally, Maria is the ARNS Chair. She has represented ARNS with pleural disease related NatPSA alerts and NHSE virtual ward projects and is a member of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Pleural Procedures Training Standard Group. Maria is also the Taskforce for Lung Health Workforce Committee co-chair, sits on BTS updated Pleural Guideline group, is a member of the National Institute for Care & Excellence (NICE) Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee (IPAC) and a member of the Mesothelioma UK Clinical Expert Panel.
