AI & Applications
Harnessing Computational Tools in Precision Medicine: Implementation and Future Directions - Ida Sim, Professor, UCSF and UC Berkeley
DATE: Wed, December 10, 2025 - 10:00 am
LOCATION: UBC Vancouver Campus, Life Sciences Institute, Room 1416
DETAILS
Abstract:
Achieving precision health will require AI advances spanning biomedical discovery to healthcare delivery. Yet the digital health ecosystem is siloed between discovery and delivery as well as between remote monitoring and in-person clinical care. This talk discusses how digital public utility -- as exemplified by JupyterHealth, an open-source platform that extends Jupyter tools to healthcare – enables real-world precision health solutions.
Bio:
Ida Sim, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine (UCSF) and Computational Precision Health (UCSF and UC Berkeley) and Co-Director of the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health. She obtained her B.Sc. in Biology, her MD, and her PhD in Medical Informatics from Stanford. A practicing primary care physician, Dr. Sim completed her Internal Medicine internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in General Medicine at the Palo Alto VA.
Dr. Sim’s research is on cyberinfrastructure and policies for large-scale health data sharing and AI for managing multiple chronic conditions in primary care. She is Co-founder of Open mHealth, which defines the IEEE 1752 global open standard for patient-generated health data interoperability, and co-leads JupyterHealth, a new project bringing the Jupyter ecosystem to healthcare. She is also Co-founder of Vivli, the world's largest platform for clinical trial data sharing. 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 is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and a recipient of the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).