HWA Board - Professor Mary Chiarella

Professor Mary Chiarella: Professor Chiarella’s career spans 40 years in both the United Kingdom and Australia across a variety of nursing services .She is Professor of Nursing at the University of Sydney. In 2003–04 she was the Chief Nursing Officer, NSW Health Department, and before that was Foundation Professor of Nursing in Corrections Health. For many years, Professor Chiarella has provided her professional expertise to health services, organisations and governments. Examples include a review of professional practice and boundary issues for Justice Health in the NSW Health Department, membership of the NSW Law Reform Commission Division Working Group on minors’ consent to medical treatment. She was a founding member of the Australian Bioethics Association and the Australian Institute for Health, Law and Ethics. She was Chair of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council from 2007–09, and is currently a member of the Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel for NSW Health, the NSW nominee on the Nurses and Midwives Board of Australia, and Chair of its Policy Working Group. Professor Chiarella was appointed as an independent member of the HWA Board in February 2010.