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About Leigh Simmons, MD
Leigh Simmons, MD, is a native of Tennessee. She is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served as a chief resident in 2007-08. Dr. Simmons is a medical student educator and directs the internal medicine clerkship for Harvard Medical School students at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her clinical practice is with the Internal Medicine Associates, where she actively engages medical students in practicing primary care.
Her research interests include patient engagement in care and shared decision making. Dr. Simmons is the medical director of the MGH Health Decision Sciences Center (https://mghdecisionsciences.org/) where she studies the use of decision aids to help patients and clinicians in the shared decision making process.
Clinical Interests:
- Adult primary care medicine
- General internal medicine
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Internal Medicine Associates
55 Fruit St.
Wang Ambulatory Care Center
6th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2368
Medical Education
- MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- MassHealth ACO
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Thank for a good services
This provider makes every effort to discover and to inform me about my health issues and she provides me with personalized recommendations to help resolve my illnesses and complaints. I consider myself to be very lucky to have this provider on my health care team.
Dr Simmons is great.
Very caring.Easy to communicate with. Listens to what I have to say. Respects my opinions.
Dr. Simmons is an excellent provider who is very thorough and always follows up on any matter. It is very reassuring having a Doctor who cares about her patients and provides excellent guidance and direction!
Dr. Simmons is very compassionate. She listens and offers good advice. I leave the visit feeling calm and assured that I'm in good hands.
Excellent Physician
Dr. Simmons is amazing. He is patient, listens well, is knowledgeable, and is the best doctor I could imagine for anyone.
Dr. Simmons is a very patient provider and she always follows up with things. We email her or left with her office. It's a provider that's really hard to come by these days.
Dr. Simmons has been an exceptional primary care physician, extroardinarily responsive and helpful.