Richard M. J. Bohmer is a New Zealand-educated doctor and a management academic. He has practiced as a hospital and primary physician. He was the Clinical Director for Quality Improvement at Massachusetts General Hospital and then spent 18 years on the faculty of Harvard Business School. He has published in the medical and management literature and is the author of Designing Care. Dr. Bohmer currently works independently with numerous hospitals and health authorities around the world to help them establish clinical leadership and management models and to improve their performance.