Steven R. Simon, MD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine in the V.A. Boston Healthcare System and Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on interventions to improve the quality and safety of health care, with special emphases on the use of educational programs and healthcare information technology to improve the delivery and receipt of care for common primary care conditions. A practicing internist, Dr. Simon is a member of Harvard’s Academy of Medical Educators and serves on the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Committee on Medical Education.

Publications

  • Published 1/29/2025

    Pendergast J, Wormwood JB, Stolzmann K, Rosen AK, Jones KF, Miller CJ, Still M, Bokhour B, Hanlon JT, Simon SR, Linsky AM. Engaging Patients in Discussions About Medication Deprescribing. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Jan 29. PMID: 39881120.

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  • Published 11/1/2024

    Jones KF, Stolzmann K, Wormwood J, Pendergast J, Miller CJ, Still M, Bokhour BG, Hanlon J, Simon SR, Rosen AK, Linsky AM. Patient-Directed Education to Promote Deprescribing: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Nov 01; 184(11):1339-1346. PMID: 39312257.

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  • Published 6/18/2021

    Rubin A, Livingston NA, Brady J, Hocking E, Bickmore T, Sawdy M, Kressin N, Saitz R, Simon S. Computerized Relational Agent to Deliver Alcohol Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care: a Randomized Clinical Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 01; 37(1):70-77. PMID: 34145518.

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  • Published 1/5/2021

    Simon SR, Lysaght M, Braverman S, Martanegara A, Sohn L, Pham M, Davis R, Barrera L, Babeu J, Yoshikawa T. COVID-19 in Community-Based LTCFs: Successful Strategies for Abatement at One VA Healthcare System. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 03; 69(3):606-607. PMID: 33370456.

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  • Published 8/11/2020

    Sohn L, Lysaght M, Schwartzman WA, Simon SR, Goetz MB, Yoshikawa T. Establishment of a COVID-19 Recovery Unit in a Veterans Affairs Post-Acute Facility. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 10; 68(10):2163-2166. PMID: 32557635.

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Education

  • Yale University School of Medicine, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MPH
  • Stanford University, BS

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