About
Bonnie T. Zima, MD MPH is a child psychiatrist and health services researcher. She is Professor-in-Residence and Founding Director of the Mental Health Informatics and Data Science (MINDS) Hub in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. She is a national and international leader in child mental health services research. Her research is dedicated to improving the quality of child mental health care, with priority placed on children enrolled in Medicaid-funded outpatient programs and underserved, at risk child populations. Her research spans identification of high unmet need for mental health care among high risk child populations, national pediatric hospitalization resource utilization and costs, validity of national quality measures, pediatric integrated care models, pediatric workforce development, and application of technologies and clinical informatics to improve child mental health care. She has received continuous extramural funding for her research throughout her career, exceeding $10.5 million. She has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed research papers in leading scientific journals, 10 book chapters, 72 national or technical reports, and 298 invited presentations. She has received all three national research awards from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) as well as her Department’s Outstanding Research Mentor Award in 2022. In addition, Dr. Zima is a Member of the U.S. Child and Adult Core Set Annual Review Workgroup for Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (the Academies) Committee on the Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce and its Impact on Child Health and Well-Being, National Advisory Board, Enhancing Systems of Care for Children with Medical Complexity Coordinating Center funded by HRSA, Advisory Group Member for the Partnership for Quality Measurement’s Endorsement and Maintenance Management of Acute and Chronic Committee, Corresponding Member of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Committee on Quality Measure and Performance, Co-Chair of the AACAP Healthcare Access and Economics Committee, and Ex-officio Member AACAP Committee on Research. She completed a ten-year term on the Standing Behavioral Health and Substance Use Committee for the National Quality Forum (contract awarded to Battelle in 2023) and a five-year term as Consulting Editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a Distinguished Fellow of APA and AACAP.
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Hospital Affiliations
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital
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Interests
- Child mental health services research
- Quality measures
- Child mental health informatics and data science
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- Aetna
- Anthem Blue Cross
- Blue Shield of California
- Centivo
- Cigna
- First Health
- Health Net of California
- Interplan (part of HealthSmart)
- L.A. Care
- MultiPlan
- UFCM Health System
- Prime Health Services
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- TRICARE
- UnitedHealthcare
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Recognitions
- Super Doctors® Southern California, 2024
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- Janet M. Glasgow Award, American Medical Women's Association award for “having graduated first in her class” in medical school
- Ginsberg Fellow, Law Committee, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
- CASSP Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Robinson Cunningham Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, best research paper by an early career psychiatrist in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Appreciation Award, Southern California Psychiatric Society
- Appreciation Award, Southern California Psychiatric Society
- Appreciation Award, APA Scientific Program
- Membership, American College of Psychiatrists
- Outstanding Research Mentor Award, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
- Early Career Health Services Research Award, American Psychiatric Association
- Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
- Catcher in the Rye Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Outstanding Mentor, Presidential Scholar Program, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
- Outstanding Mentor, Jeanne Spurlock Clinical Fellowship, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Outstanding Mentor in Child Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association
- Honorary Lecturer, 57th Institute on Psychiatric Services
- Rieger Award for Scientific Achievement, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, annual award for “the most significant paper” in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Top Women Southern California Super Doctors, Los Angeles Magazine (every year since 2008)
- Distinguished Fellow, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, annual award for the best paper published on ADHD in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Member (IOM President Appointment) Institute of Medicine's Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders
- Nominating Committee (elected), American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Winner. Code for the Mission Service Track: Focusing on Wellness in the Community (UCLA Annual App Contest)
- Nomination, Postdoctoral Mentor Award, UCLA Graduate Education
- National Advisor, American Academy of Pediatrics, Young Investigator Award Program
- Outstanding Mentor Award, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Member, Child and Adult Core Set Annual Review Workgroup, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (Nominated by APA, AACAP in 2019; reappointed 2020-present)
- Member, 2020 Medicaid and CHIP (MAC) Scorecard Workgroup
- Member, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (the Academies) Committee on the Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce and its Impact on Child Health and Well-Being (only child psychiatrist)
- Outstanding Research Mentor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
- Genius Bar Award. Highest rated reviews (average rating 95%), Journal American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Advisory Group Member, Partnership for Quality Measurement’s Endorsement and Maintenance (E&M) Management of Acute and Chronic Committee. Charge: Provide written feedback on the measures under review to help guide the recommendations group’s discussions during the endorsement meeting.