Ida Sim, MD, PhD is Associate Professor Medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco, where she directs the Center for Clinical
and Translational Informatics and is a primary care physician. Dr. Sim
is an international leader in informatics for clinical research and
evidence-based medicine. Her research centers on computational
technologies for building the global, computable “human studyome,” in
which the design and results of all human studies worldwide are made
computable for large-scale data mining, synthesis, and re-analysis.
Dr. Sim was also the founding Project Coordinator of the World Health
Organization’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, which
sets global standards for clinical trial registration and reporting. In
addition to her informatics research, she has also conducted systematic
reviews and has published on clinical trial reporting bias, new models
of clinical trial publication, and the adoption of electronic health
records in primary care practices for quality improvement. She serves
on the editorial board of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and on
the Advisory Board for PLoS One, and was a member of the National
Research Council report on Computational Technology for Effective
Health Care. Dr. Sim is a recipient of United States Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and is an elected
Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and an elected
member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.