Faculty Profile: Dr. Lynn Simon

Lynn Simon, MD serves as President of Clinical Services and Chief Quality Officer for Community Health Systems where she has leadership responsibility for all aspects of clinical services, quality and safety, physician engagement and physician practice management. Dr. Simon joined Community Health Systems in November 2010 to oversee the Department of Quality & Clinical Transformation. She was promoted to President, Clinical Services in January 2014.

Prior to joining CHS, Dr. Simon was a full-time practicing neurologist in Louisville, KY for over 10 years before becoming Vice President of Medical Affairs at Jewish Hospital, and in 2005, the Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare after those organizations merged.

Simon received her medical degree from the University of Louisville, completed a medical internship at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, IL and a neurology residency at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, serving as Chief Resident in her final year. She obtained a MBA from Bellarmine University in Louisville in 2001.