Judy McKimm

Professor Judy McKIMM

Strategic Advisor (Medical Education), Bangor University

Emeritus Professor of Medical Education, Swansea University Medical School

Email: mckimmjudy@gmail.com

Judy’s previous role was Director of Strategic Educational Development and Professor of Medical Education in the School of Medicine, Swansea University until 2021. From 2011-2014, she was Dean of Medical Education at Swansea and before that worked in New Zealand from 2007-2011, at the University of Auckland and as Pro-Dean, Health and Social Care, Unitec Institute of Technology.

Judy initially trained as a nurse and has an academic background in social and health sciences, education and management. She was Director of Undergraduate Medicine at Imperial College London until 2004 and led the curriculum development and implementation of the new undergraduate medical programme. In 2004-05, as Higher Education Academy Senior Adviser, she was responsible for developing and implementing the accreditation of professional development programmes and the standards for teachers in HE. She has worked on over sixty international health workforce and education reform projects for DfID, AusAID, the World Bank and WHO in Central Asia, Portugal, Greece, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Australia and the Pacific. She has been a reviewer and accreditor for the GMC, QAA, the Higher Education Academy and the Academy of Medical Educators for many years and is a member of ASME Executive and Council.

She was programme director for the Leadership Masters at Swansea and is currently AMEE Director of International Collaborations and Director of ASME’s and AMEE's international Educational Leadership programmes. She writes and publishes widely on medical education and leadership, is a sought after speaker at conferences and other events and runs health professions’ leadership and education courses and workshops internationally.