Dr. Parsons' clinical specialty is Physical Therapy. Her research interests are qualitative methods, knowledge translation, narrative and film-based methods, social determinants of health, oncology, health services research. Her research is focused on applying qualitative methodologies to a variety of health care issues. Most recently she has been developing a new film-based method (Brokered Dialogue) with her colleague Jim Lavery (a fellow scientist at St. Michael’s). While working in a variety of topic areas, her main interests include patients’ experiences of cancer and other illnesses, health services delivery, drug policy, health disparities, and the sociology of health and illness. Additional interests include arts-based research, knowledge translation, and public engagement in health care. Theoretically her research is informed by narrative analytic theory, including the work of Arthur Frank and others.