Ida Sim

Ida Sim, MD, PhD is a primary care physician, informatics researcher and entrepreneur. Her current research focuses on the use of mobile apps and sensors to improve health, manage disease and make clinical research faster and less expensive. She is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she co-directs biomedical informatics at UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.

As founding project coordinator of the World Health Organization’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform in 2005, Dr. Sim led the establishment of the first global policy on clinical trial registration, defining the common 20-item trial registration data set that’s now adhered to by all registers worldwide. In 2011, she co-founded Open mHealth, a non-profit organization that creates open software architecture to support systematic and shared learning in mobile health.

Among her many present roles, Dr. Sim is a co-investigator and consortium core lead with the National Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K). She is also technical lead of the MRCT Framework for Data Sharing international effort towards building a single global portal for sharing individual participant-level data from clinical trials.