Kim Sunmin

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Kim Sunmin
김선민
President of Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 April 2020
PresidentMoon Jae-in
MinisterPark Neung-hoo
Kwon Deok-chul
Personal details
Born (1964-05-24) 24 May 1964 (age 60)
Seoul, South Korea
Alma materSeoul National University
In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

Kim Sun-min (Korean: 김선민; Hanja: 金宣旼; born 24 May 1964) is a South Korean health care expert currently serving as the President of Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) from April 2020.[1] She is the first woman to lead HIRA since its creation in 2000.[2] Before promoted to its 10th president, Kim was its Executive Director of Planning, its de facto vice-president.[3]

Kim has wealth of experience of working for inter-government and government institutions. She was a senior researcher at Korea Health Industry Development Institute from 1999 to 2001 and human rights researcher at National Human Rights Commission from 2001 to 2004.[4] She took numerous roles in HIRA since 2006 when she was first joined the institution as a member of its Review and Assessment Committee. She also worked as a senior technical officer at World Health Organization's Department of Service Delivery and Safety from 2016 to 2018.

Kim represented HIRA and Korea at OECD Health Care Quality and Outcome (HCQO) Working Group from 2009 and became its chair in 2018 becoming the first Asian-country-national and first woman to lead the HCQO Working Group.[5][6]

She holds three degrees from Seoul National University - M.D and master's and doctorate in preventative medicine.[4] She was previously an assistant professor at Hallym University[7] and affiliate professor at Catholic University of Korea.

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  2. ^ "심평원 설립 20년만에 첫 여성 원장 임명 '눈앞'...14일 '김선민 이사' 내정 알려져 - 데일리메디팜". www.dailymedipharm.com (in Korean). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  3. ^ "심평원 김선민 기획이사 임명이 주목되는 이유는?". 의사신문 (in Korean). 4 April 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b "사이언스엠디뉴스". sciencemd.com. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  5. ^ "OECD puts people at center of healthcare; assesses quality from patients' viewpoint - Korea Biomedical Review". Korea Biomedical Review (in Korean). 23 July 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Seoul shares Covid-19 response experiences with OECD members". KBR (in Korean). 14 May 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  7. ^ 이, 창진. "심평원 차기원장 김선민 기획이사-김윤 교수 '경합'".