Mary Pasquinelli
Director, Lung Screening Program and Lead Advanced Practice Nurse, UI Health
Biography
Mary Pasquinelli (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/UIC)
Mary Pasquinelli is a lead advanced practice nurse in pulmonary at UI Health, specializing in lung cancer, lung cancer screening and pulmonary nodule management. She is also an adjunct clinical instructor in the College of Nursing and is the director of the Lung Screening Program at UI Health, a program established in 2015.
Under Pasquinelli’s direction, UI Health’s Lung Cancer Screening Program has become a national model for community-based care, serving predominantly underrepresented and low-resource neighborhoods in Chicago. The program includes a dedicated screening and pulmonary nodule clinic with navigation services to thoracic oncology as needed, providing continuity of care from initial screening through diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.
Her work integrating research, innovation and compassionate care has led to more cancers being detected at earlier, treatable stages, improving outcomes and saving lives through access that is both inclusive and effective.
Pasquinelli is the principal investigator on multiple grants and a founding member of the Sybil Consortium, where she is working on the implementation and validation of artificial intelligence-driven lung cancer early detection and risk-prediction models.
Her published research focuses on lung cancer screening, implementation science and health disparities. Her clinical and scholarly work is driven by a commitment to reducing barriers to care, advancing health equity and improving outcomes for individuals at risk for or diagnosed with lung cancer.
