Ida Sim, PhD, MD
Ida Sim, MD, PhD is a primary care physician, informatics researcher, and entrepreneur. She is a Professor of Medicine (UCSF) and Computational Precision Health (UCSF and UC Berkeley) and is Co-Director of the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health. In 2023, Dr. Sim became UCSF's inaugural Chief Research Informatics Officer.
Dr. Sim is a global leader in the technology and policy of large-scale health data sharing. She is co-founder of the Open mHealth/IEEE 1752 family of global mobile health data standards. In 2019, she co-developed CommonHealth, an open-source software suite bringing to the Android ecosystem the equivalent of Apple Health's ability to access and share EHR data. Most recently, she is co-lead of the JupyterHealth project, which combines OpenmHealth, CommonHealth, and Project Jupyter to transform the digital and precision health ecosystem.
Dr. Sim is also co-founder of Vivli, the world's largest data-sharing platform for participant-level clinical trial data. In 2005, she was the founding Project Coordinator of the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, where she led the establishment of the first global policy on clinical trial registration.
Dr. Sim has led multiple NIH, AHRQ, and NSF grants and has served on multiple advisory committees on health information infrastructure for clinical care and research, including committees of the National Research Council and National Academy of Medicine. She is a recipient of the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.