The UCSF Chief Research Informatics Officer (CRIO) is a member of enterprise-wide research informatics leadership at UCSF. As part of UCSF’s Office of Research, the CRIO reports directly to the Vice Chancellor for Research (VCR).
Key Accomplishments
- Working in partnership with ITGSC Chair Marc Kohli, ACIO-R Mandy Terrill, and the broader Office of Research executive team to reform the research IT governance structure and clearly articulate the need for a research informatics strategy.
- Providing a strong and steady voice and vision for AI adoption in the last two years of unprecedented change including:
- Ongoing thoughtful contributions to AI Leadership discussions
- Collaboration across mission areas and enterprise groups to create:
- UCSF AI-wide training for Versa
- ai.ucsf.edu as a landing spot for all things AI at UCSF
- New guidance, policies, and consultations around AI and data sharing
- Continued attention to the development of ethical and equitable AI efforts
- Broader efforts at building and extending capacity, including the AI Guild, and Research AI Day
- Establishing the Informatics Faculty Research Advisory Group to provide ongoing insight to VCR Hal Collard on informatics and computational science research (members listed below).
The CRIO Team
- Ida Sim, MD, PhD - CRIO
- Beth Berrean, MBA, MLIS - Consulting Advisor, Policy and Operations
- Romain Pirracchio, MD, PhD - Consulting Advisor, AI Algorithm Evaluation and Monitoring
- Sharat Israni, PhD - Consulting Advisor, Technology
The CRIO Advisory Committee
- Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
- Michelle Arkin, PhD
- David Blair, MD, PhD
- Laura Esserman, MD, MBA
- Yoshimi Fukuoka, RN, PhD, FAAN
- Jose Gutierrez, PhD, MS
- Effie Ioannidou, DDS, MDS
- Priya Joshi, MD
- Aaron Kornblith, MD
- Lucy Kornblith, MC, FACS
- Ki Lai
- Susan Lynch, PhD
- Sharmila Majumdar, PhD
- Mohsen Malekinejad, MD, MPH, DrPh
- John Mongan, MD, PhD
- David Morgan, PhD
- Sara Murray, MD, MAS
- Tung Nguyen, MD
- Mark Pletcher, MD, MPH
- Gilbert Ramirez, MD
- Ida, Sim, PhD, MD
- Marina Sirota, PhD
- Joanne Spetz, MD
- Mandy Terrill
- Christina Theodoris, MD, PhD
- Jimmie Ye, PhD
- Travis Zack, MD, PhD
- Lucas Zier, MD
The CRIO also collaborates across the UC and UCSF ecosystem with partners including:
- Bakar Computational Health Science Institute (BC)HSI
- CTSI’s Informatics and Research Innovation (IRI), Regulatory Knowledge and Support (RKS), and the Research Action Group on Equity (RAGE) programs
- Division of Clinical Informatics and Transformation (DoC-IT) within the Department of Medicine
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (DEB)
- Health IT Informatics Data Science and Innovation team (Health AI)
- School of Medicine, Dean’s Office, Technical Services Unit (SOM Tech)
- UCSF and UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health Program (CPH)