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About Us
Dr. Paul Simpson
Paul K. Simpson, MD is a board certified Internal Medicine specialist with over 35 years of practice experience in primary care Internal Medicine in Alaska, California, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Dr. Simpson started his primary care practice career by founding Valley Medical Care in Juneau, Alaska. In addition to his office and hospital practice, he supervised eight mid-level medical practitioners staffing clinics in remote island villages of the Southeast Alaska archipelago. He also operated Clinic Vessel Faering, a floating medical clinic which served logging, mining, fishing and native Alaskan villages not accessible by road.
In 1989, Dr Simpson joined Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in San Diego, California. His responsibilities there included Attending Physician Teaching Rounds for the Scripps Clinic Internal Medicine Residency Program. He developed the Quality Assurance and Peer Review programs at the Scripps Clinic La Mesa site and served as first chairperson on those committees as well as serving on the systemwide Executive, Peer Review and Quality Assurance committees. He also served as clinical instructor and mentor for the University of California at San Diego Medical School’s Introduction to Clinical Medicine course.
His practice experience has focused on wellness, pain management, general adult medicine with special interest in gastroenterology, addiction medicine, transportation health and the effects of exercise end inactivity on health and disease. Dr. Simpson spent his Mondays performing colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) from 1980 to 2016.
Dr. Simpson’s main area of research and publication has been the effect of transportation systems on human health. He has lectured on this topic in the USA, Canada, Germany, and Ireland.
Dr Simpson is married and has two adult daughters. He enjoys bicycling, woodworking, hiking and travel.