Dr Sally Parry qualified from University College Middlesex School of Medicine in London in 1993. She undertook her general medical training in London and Nottingham obtaining her membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996. She entered higher specialist training in London, which included time in the North East undertaking research into functional gastrointestinal disorders for her doctorate. She was appointed Clinical Director of the Dorset Bowel Cancer Screening Centre in 2007.