Dr. Amanda Simmons General practitioner, UK

Dr Simmons works as a general practitioner in North London in a practice serving approximately 10,000 registered patients. She obtained her degrees in medicine at Leeds University Medical School, graduating in 2003, together with a BSc in 'genetics in relation to medicine'. Following graduation and her junior house officer positions... read moreshe worked in paediatrics in several London teaching hospitals obtaining her Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2007. She attained membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2010 along with a Postgraduate Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Her work in general practice has given her experience with patients from a wide variety of cultural and economic groups. Her areas of special interest remain paediatrics and women’s health. When not at work she enjoys exercising, spending time with her husband and trying to maintain calm as a mother to their three young children.