Dr Kim Hansen is Clinical Director of Metro North’s Virtual Emergency Department and the Medical Director of Critical Care, Women’s and Children’s Service Line at Redcliffe Hospital, Australia. 

Kim is passionate about equity for staff and patients and advocates for high quality care for patients. With Carmel Crock, Kim co-founded EMER in 2010 and has been involved at every stage of its evolution. Kim founded IFEM’s Quality and Safety Special Interest Group in 2016, was the inaugural Chair and remains an active member. 

She is the inaugural Chair and founder of ACEM’s Advancing Women in Emergency, Chair of the Board of the Emergency Medicine Foundation until recently and ACEM’s Queensland Faculty Chair since 2017.