Associate Professor Kohler is the leader of the Age and Ageing Clinical Academic Clinical Stream, of the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise. His leadership has been instrumental in establishing, developing and embedding new models of care for rehabilitation and aged care services in SWSLHD. A/Professor Kohler has brought together clinical and research expertise and built partnerships across industry and residential aged care providers.
His exceptional collaborative skills have resulted in improved delivery of safe, high quality and coordinated clinical services. Associate Professor Kohler has assisted in engaging many clinicians in reviewing clinical variation and activity based funding. He continues to engage new clinicians to improve the evaluation of service and research. A/Professor Kohler is devoted to building capacity within the health system, for example connecting together aged care projects, resulting in better resource utilisation.