Leigh Holman Simmons MD

Leigh Simmons, MD, is an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include patient engagement in care and shared decision making. Dr. Simmons is on the staff of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation (http://www.stoecklecenter.org) and the MGH Health Decision Sciences Center where she studies the use of decision aids to help patients and clinicians in the shared decision making process.

Her clinical practice is with the Internal Medicine Associates at Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to her clinical and research interests, Dr. Simmons is a medical student educator and directs the internal medicine clerkship for Harvard Medical School students at Massachusetts General Hospital.