About Bill Lester, MD
Dr. Lester received his MD degree from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston after earning his master's degree in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and his bachelors in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Lester trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and completed a fellowship in medical informatics in the combined Harvard University/MIT HST Program. As a member of the Harvard Medical School Faculty, he currently teaches, performs research, and sees patients in both primary and urgent care.
Dr. Lester also serves as Assistant Director of MGH's biomedical informatics fellowship training program where his work has focused on building the tools to provide patients with the safest and highest quality care.
Clinical Interests:
- Adult primary care medicine
- Diet and exercise
- Medical informatics
- Patient empowerment
- Practice innovation
- Primary Prevention
- Urgent care
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Internal Medicine Associates
55 Fruit St.
Wang Ambulatory Care Center
6th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2375
Medical Education
- MD, University of Texas Medical School-Houston
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
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
- Medicaid VT
- 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.
Dr Lester inspires complete confidence! He listens carefully to any concerns that I have, and he doesn't hesitate to call on other resources when he may not know the answer.
My provider is very knowledgeable and considerate.
my experience was satisfactory
Bill provided excellent counseling and care for a number of conditions. He was thorough and thoughtful and is clearly an excellent physician.
The care with Dr. Lester was and always is outstanding. I've never had this level of respect and trust of a primary care physician in my life. He's a good listener and he is intuitive and he really tries to get to the root of anything including looking deeper for where there might be a problem where you might not be thinking about it. And I really ... Read More
Dr. William Lester has improved the quality and duration of my life.
The Best, very knowledgeable, caring and courteous.
Dr Lester is an outstanding physician. Listens to my concerns with care and compassion. Spent more time with me than likely allotted. Put a health plan together that was right for me and I could take action on. I am blessed to gave him as my provider.
Dr Lester is an excellent physician who allows the patient time to share their concerns and ask questions. He then answers the questions in an easy to understand manner.
I'm very happy that Dr. Lester is my internist. He cares about his patients. He cares about me. Mass General is lucky to have good generalists like him.