Zachary Simms, MD

Dr. Zachary Simms is an Emergency Medicine physician who was born in Tokyo, but grew up mainly in Alabama. He did his undergrad at the University of Alabama and completed medical school at the University of South Alabama. He went on to do his residency training in Emergency Medicine in New York City at Maimonides in Brooklyn. Following residency, he was a clinical faculty member at LSU EM Residency in Baton Rouge, LA for 4 years.

Dr. Simms is now living in Hilo with his girlfriend, Amanda, an ER nurse, who works at Hilo Medical Center, and their bulldog, Collins. He is very into music. He is a guitarist who he jams with drummer, Jeff LaCroix (a Kona physician that was also one of his residents at LSU) and bassist Jacob Robertson (RN at Kona, who he also met at LSU). Dr. Simms works at Queen’s North Hawaii, Hilo Medical Center, Hale Ho’ola Hamakua, Ka’u Hospital and Kona Community Hospital.