Dr. Leeann Burton is a neuromuscular neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in neuroscience and received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her internal medicine internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by neurology residency and a clinical fellowship in neuromuscular medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Her clinical practice is dedicated to patients with neuromuscular diseases. She has a particular interest in immune-mediated disorders such as myasthenia gravis and inflammatory myopathies. 

She is involved in clinical research programs around myasthenia gravis and immune-related adverse events of cancer immunotherapies. She also has an interest in drug development and emerging therapeutics for neuromuscular disease, and is the current Anne B. Young fellow in translational neuroscience.