Ida Sim

Ida Sim is a major force behind the advancement of digital medicine — one who works largely behind the scenes on the gnarly technical problems that keep patients’ health data siloed. More than a decade before such efforts became widespread, she established data-sharing standards with Open mHealth, the nonprofit she co-founded that uses an open software architecture to broaden access to mobile health, and by co-developing the open-source software suite CommonHealth. Now she’s poised to train the next generation of digital health leaders in academia as director of the new UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, which just started its first year of operations — and set to build a new platform that aims to empower metabolic health care with real-world data.