Kim attended university in Newcastle upon Tyne and qualified MB BS in 1982. He trained in Northeast England and worked as Clinical Lecturer/Senior Registrar in Aberdeen. He has been a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in Sunderland since 1994 and in 2010 was appointed Director of Research & Innovation for the Trust. He is a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sunderland.

His clinical interests include high-risk pregnancy and labour ward care. Kim has a long-term interest in obstetric skills-drills and human factors training. He has chaired the ALSO UK Executive committee and remains an active member of the MOET & POET UK Working Groups. He is national Faculty Lead for the charity Baby Lifeline ‘BIRTH2’ programme, which delivers multidisciplinary training in several high-risk areas of obstetrics, highlighted in the 2012 NHSLA report: “Ten Years of Maternity Claims”

His other roles include Strategic Clinical Research Lead for the NIHR Clinical Research Network in Northern England. He has chaired several RCOG education committees and is presently Education Lead for the British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS). Since 2016, he has worked closely with Professor Marian Knight from the NPEU, Oxford in his role as Chair of the UKOSS Steering Committee (UKOSS reviews rare disorders that can adversely affect pregnancy outcomes for mothers and babies).