Dr. Bonnie Zima is Associate Director of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute's Health Services Research Center and Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine. In partnership with the State of California Department of Mental Health and four NIMH-funded health services research centers, Dr. Zima led the first statewide study on quality of care for children receiving publicly-funded outpatient mental health services in California. This work led to a five-year NIMH-funded study examining quality of care for children in a large managed care Medicaid program receiving care for ADHD in primary and specialty mental health care sectors. Dr. Zima's earlier research focused on level of unmet need for mental health services among high-risk child populations with limited access to care (homeless, foster care, juvenile hall), including one of the few studies that describes the extent of psychotropic medication use among school-age children in foster care within the context of their clinical need for medication evaluation. She received her M.D. from Rush Medical College, her M.P.H from the UCLA School of Public Health, and health services research training from the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.

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