Lisa Simon MD, DMD

Dr. Lisa Simon is a Resident Physician of Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Before entering medical school, she also graduated from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and worked as a dentist at Cambridge Health Alliance. She is passionate about social justice, health equity, and the inclusion of oral health into primary care, and is thrilled to be a part of the Codman Square community.

Dr. Simon has been a part of numerous efforts to enhance oral health integration. She was a core team member for the Nurse Practitioner-Dentist Model for Primary Care and led an initiative to integrate a dental hygienist into the hospital care team for patients with diabetes at Massachusetts General Hospital. As a dentist at the Suffolk County Jail, she founded the dental team that serves as part of the Crimson Care Collaborative (CCC) at the Nashua Street Jail and continues to serve as its attending dentist. She has taught about the importance of oral health to health equity to medical, nursing, and physician assistant students in many of HSDM’s partner institutions as well as practicing clinicians in Massachusetts and around the country.

Dr. Simon has been honored with numerous awards for her dedication to people who are underserved by health care. She received the Anthony Westwater Jong Award from the American Public Health Association, the Rising Star Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, and the David Whiston Leadership Award from the American Dental Association.