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 listens to me and answers my questions. He is diligent in persuing answers to any medical problems. He is respectful, compassionate and professional. I trust him completely.
The provider was tremendous, always is, always enjoy my visit. He's very thorough with everything. Thank you.
listened carefully to my concerns. spent unhurried time with me. Explained issued clearly.
Dr. Lester is an exemplary primary care doctor. He is kind, attentive, knowledgeable and shows true concern for me. I wish there were a thousand more like him in the state.
Dr Lester is simply the best doctor I've ever had, hands down. He is always prepared, always listens AND hears me, always has thoughtful, intelligent responses, always explains things so that I walk away with a clear understanding, and clearly is a deeply caring individual. The best.
Dr. William Lester is awesome. He's amazing. He's a great, very intelligent doctor. He's the best. I give him a 10 out of 10.
Dr. Lester is the best. I always enjoy my visits with him.
As always Dr Lester listens to my concerns and he offers his advice professionally
Dr. Lester is an excellent doctor, very competent, extremely understanding, always friendly, and he has diagnosed me correctly every time, and in fact, did help save my life by early diagnosis of bladder cancer.
Yes, this was a wellness visit that took approximately 35 to 40 minutes and we went over and discussed everything that was happening in the past year. And he had all my records from my cardiologist and everything. We went over all my medications, we went over all the reasons why we're taking certain medications, very thorough about everything, ... Read More