James E. Simmons, MD is an Assistant Professor in Medicine, Clinician Educator at Brown University and is a member of the Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep division at the Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals. He is the Program Director for the Brown University Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship.
Dr. Simmons has clinical interests in critical care medicine, inpatient pulmonary consultation, palliative care, and medical education, as well as research interests in pulmonary rehabilitation, novel echocardiography methods in respiratory failure, and critical care curriculum. Dr. Simmons provides inpatient critical care services as an attending in medical intensives care units at both the Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals. He is the Medical Director of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation at the Miriam Hospital, and he oversees the fellow's inpatient pulmonary consult service at the Miriam Hospital as well.
| Berkowitz J, Lu F, DeAngelis J, Simmons J, Wu WC. "Comparative Efficacy of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients With COPD, ILD, and Long COVID: PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL OUTCOMES." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, vol. 46, no. 3, 2026, pp. 176-181. |
| Lu F, Gaw A, Pierce J, DeAngelis J, Simmons J, Wu WC. "Effect of Masking Secondary to the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pulmonary Rehabilitation Outcomes." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, vol. 45, no. 4, 2025, pp. 294-296. |
| Zubair Bashir, Feven Ataklte, Shuyuan Wang, Edward W Chen, Vishnu Kadiyala, Charles F Sherrod, Phinnara Has, Christopher Song, Corey E Ventetuolo, James Simmons, Philip Haines. "Comparison of Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain and Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Acute Respiratory Failure Patients Requiring Invasive Mechanical Ventilation." J Cardiovasc Dev Dis ., vol. 11, no. 11, 2024. |
| Buckley ML, Wycoff AM, Mahoney K, Pierce JF, Simmons J, Adami A. "Improvements in Dyspnea Following Traditional Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients With Long COVID." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, vol. 44, no. 2, 2024, pp. 141-143. |
| Wang S, Bashir Z, Chen EW, Kadiyala V, Sherrod CF, Has P, Song C, Ventetuolo CE, Simmons J, Haines P. "Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Is Associated with Worse Right Ventricular Strain in Acute Respiratory Failure Patients." Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, vol. 11, no. 8, 2024. |
| Bashir Z, Chen EW, Wang S, Shu L, Goldstein ED, Rana M, Kala N, Dai X, Mandel D, Has P, Xie M, Wang T, Dickey JB, Poppas A, Simmons J, Song C, Yaghi S, Haines P. "Left atrial strain, embolic stroke of undetermined source, and atrial fibrillation detection." Echocardiography, vol. 41, no. 1, 2024, pp. e15738. |
| Bashir Z, Shu L, Guo Y, Chen EW, Wang S, Goldstein ED, Rana M, Kala N, Dai X, Mandel D, Yaghi S, Has P, Xie M, Wang T, Simmons J, Song C, Haines P. "Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction with Elevated Filling Pressures Is Associated with Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source and Atrial Fibrillation." Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.), vol. 10, no. 10, 2024, pp. 1694-1705. |
| Simon M, Simmons JE. "A Review of Respiratory Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) and the Potential Benefits of Pulmonary Rehabilitation." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 105, no. 7, 2022, pp. 11-15. |
| Simmons, James, Haines, Philip, Extein, Jonathan, Bashir, Zubair, Aliotta, Jason, Ventetuolo, Corey E. "Systolic Strain by Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography Is a Feasible and Sensitive Measure of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Acute Respiratory Failure Patients on Mechanical Ventilation." Critical Care Explorations, vol. 4, no. 1, 2022, pp. e0619. |
| Simmons J. "Updates in Pulmonary Medicine 2021." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 104, no. 7, 2021, pp. 8-9. |
| Simmons, James, Ventetuolo, Corey E. "Cardiopulmonary monitoring of shock." Current Opinion in Critical Care, vol. 23, no. 3, 2017, pp. 223-231. |
| Iaccarino, Jonathan M., Simmons, James, Gould, Michael K., Slatore, Christopher G., Woloshin, Steven, Schwartz, Lisa M., Wiener, Renda Soylemez. "Clinical Equipoise and Shared Decision-making in Pulmonary Nodule Management. A Survey of American Thoracic Society Clinicians." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 14, no. 6, 2017, pp. 968-975. |
| Leung LB, Simmons JE, Ho J, Anselin E, Yalamanchili R, Rabatin JS. "A Five-Year Evolution of a Student-led Elective on Health Disparities at The Alpert Medical School." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 99, no. 10, 2016, pp. 43-47. |
| Simmons, James, Gould, Michael K., Iaccarino, Jonathan, Slatore, Christopher G., Wiener, Renda Soylemez. "Systems-Level Resources for Pulmonary Nodule Evaluation in the United States: A National Survey." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 193, no. 9, 2016, pp. 1063-1065. |
| Simmons, James, Gould, Michael K., Woloshin, Steven, Schwartz, Lisa M., Wiener, Renda Soylemez. "Attitudes about Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer: A Survey of American Thoracic Society Clinicians." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 191, no. 4, 2015, pp. 483-486. |
| Madsen, Tracy E., Simmons, James, Choo, Esther K., Portelli, David, McGregor, Alyson J., Napoli, Anthony M. "The DISPARITY Study: do gender differences exist in Surviving Sepsis Campaign resuscitation bundle completion, completion of individual bundle elements, or sepsis mortality?." Journal of Critical Care, vol. 29, no. 3, 2014, pp. 473.e7-473.e11. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | MD | The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University |
| 2009 | BS | Yale University |
2022 Department of Medicine Teaching Award - Intensive Care Unit
2024 Dean’s Excellence in Teach Award, Warren Alpert Medical School
