Associate Director/Professor-in-Residence
Bonnie T. Zima, MD, MPH is Professor-in-Residence, specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry, Vice-Chair for Faculty Development, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, and Associate Director of the UCLA Center for Health Services & Society at the UCLA-Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
Dr. Zima’s 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. Her research has received all three national research awards from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). 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, American Psychiatric Association (APA) Council on Quality Care, Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Steering Committee for the National Quality Forum, and AACAP Committee on Research. She is Consulting Editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Deputy Editor for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, and Distinguished Fellow of AACAP and APA.
