Dr Mary-Clare Parker
Trustee – Trustees
Mary-Clare has been a GP in Greenwich for over 20 years, and is a senior partner and GP trainer at Vanbrugh Group Practice. She grew up in south east London, and always knew she wanted to be a doctor. As a teenager in the 1970s she sang with the St Christopher’s Hospice Choir, alongside the formidable Dame Cicely Saunders. Listening to Dame Cicely and other members of the choir speak about their work in palliative care awoke her interest in this area of medicine. Mary-Clare's other areas of special interest include elderly medicine, rheumatology and dermatology.
Since 2009 Mary-Clare has also been the college doctor for Morden College in Blackheath. In her practice she is privileged to care for people at the end of their lives, and has found this aspect of her work both challenging and immensely rewarding. She has become increasingly involved in palliative care over the years, and was therefore very pleased to be invited to become a Trustee of the Hospice.
Mary-Clare is a longstanding member of the Greenwich LMC (Local Medical Committee) and is also a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London. She is married to Steven, and has four grown up children.
