Dr Kim Sutherland leads the Office for Health and Medical Research. Prior to her appointment to OHMR, she held Director roles at the Agency for Clinical Innovation and the Bureau of Health Information. Kim is a health services researcher with experience in evidence synthesis and sense making, performance measurement and reporting and change management in healthcare organizations. She played a central role in the development of frameworks for the assessment of unwarranted clinical variation and healthcare performance measurement in NSW and in the UK and co-authored a series of reports on the English NHS quality agenda. Kim holds a Master of Science from London Hospital Medical College, a Master of Business Administration from Imperial College London and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. In 2022, Kim received the Public Service Medal for outstanding public service to NSW Health.
