Speaker Profile
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 UCSFs 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. Sims 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 Organizations 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.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Vincent Liu, Kaiser Permanente
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley (Luminary)
Featured Speakers
• Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley
• John Halamka, Mayo Clinic Platform
• Ashley Beecy, Sutter Health
• Shiv Rao, Abridge
• Munjal Shah, Hippocratic AI
• Vivek Natarajan, Google Health
• Vincent Liu, Kaiser Permanente
• Mark Sendak, Duke Health
• Joshua Denny, NIH
• Chris Lunt, Critical Path Institute
• Ida Sim, UCSF
• Travis Zack, OpenEvidence
• Danton Char, Stanford
• Brian Anderson, CHAI
• Julia Adler-Milstein, UCSF
The Year in Clinical AI
What shipped, what failed, and what should change next.
AI Agents in Clinical Workflows
Ambient documentation, patient-facing agents, and operational agents in real care.
Foundation Models in Healthcare
What makes a clinical foundation model useful, deployable, and trusted.
AI, Human Cohorts, Trials & RWE
Turning clinical data into stronger trials and decision-grade evidence.
AI Safety, Governance & Evaluation
Avoiding harm at scale when algorithms move into production.
AI + Pharmacogenomics
How decision support and drug-response data can make each other more useful.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.