Gerald Simons PA-C

Jerry Simons, PA is a practitioner with 25 years of experience in managing chronic disease, especially persistent infections and autoimmunity. Working in an area endemic with ticks, he has treated vector borne diseases of all types in all stages.

An award-winning international medical educator for more than 25 years. He has developed Tick Borne Disease educational programs used by physicians and health providers. He is considered an innovator in the field of complex infections, having began his practice in the field of tick borne disease in 1995 in the office of Dr. Joseph Burrascano. There he advanced the concept of tick borne disease co-infections, innovated pulsed antibiotic dosing, brain SPECT scanning, and an herbal approach to microbial infections. He is currently employed at the Morrison Center in New York City, with a focus on heavy metals' role in infection, biofilms, and persistent infections. 

He is a past recipient of the national award from the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance (now Global Lyme Alliance), and was the Lyme Times Magazine Ask The Expert series editor and author for more than a decade. He is currently the lead investigator in an IRB approved national study through Stony Brook University where he is studying the connection between Lyme and Fatigue. He is a founding Medical Advisor to the Regional Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, where he is in demand as a consultant and as a community outreach lecturer 

He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University and is a well known lecturer in Health Programs at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences as well as Long Island University. In the PA Profession, he is a sought after lecturer regarding the employment of probiotics and the assessment of the microbiome. In addition, he is an advisor to breatcancerchoices.org where he has helped integrate the role of iodine in both cancer care and infectious disease.