She received her M.D. and her Ph.D. in medical informatics from Stanford University and her primary care internal medicine training from the Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also fellowship-trained in general internal medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Sim’s research focus is on knowledge-based technologies for clinical research and evidence-based practice. She received the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000 for her work on the Trial Bank Project, which developed fundamental informatics tech-