Biography
Ida Sim, MD, PhD is UCSF Professor of Medicine and Computational Precision Health, Co-Director of the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, and UCSF’s first Chief Research Informatics Officer. She obtained a B.Sc. in Biology, an MD, and a PhD in Medical Informatics from Stanford. A practicing primary care physician, Dr. Sim completed her Internal Medicine internship and residency at the Massachussetts General Hospital and fellowships in General Medicine and Medical Informatics at the Palo Alto VA. Dr. Sim’s research focuses on technology and policies for large-scale data sharing of health data. She is Co-founder of Open mHealth, a nonprofit organization that defines the IEEE 1752 global open standard for patient-generated health data interoperability. She is also Co-Founder of Vivli, the world's largest data sharing platform for participant-level clinical trial data. Her current research centers on the JupyterHealth and CommonHealth platforms for integrating smartphone and sensor data for management of multiple chronic conditions in primary care. In prior work, Dr. Sim was the founding Project Coordinator of the World Health Organization’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform and led the establishment of the first global policy on clinical trial registration. Dr. Sim has been recognized for her contributions with membership in the National Academy of Medicine and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. She is a recipient of the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. Recently, she was a lead author on a NEJM article titled “The Ethics of Relational AI — Expanding and Implementing the Belmont Principles.”