Dr. Evan Leibner

Evan Leibner, MD, PhD, FACEP, is an emergency medicine and critical care physician and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He serves the Mount Sinai Health System as Co-Director of the Difficult Airway Response Team and as Director of Simulation for the Institute for Critical Care Medicine, where he leads critical care education and simulation initiatives while practicing as an attending physician. Clinically, Dr. Leibner focuses on high-acuity emergency resuscitation, surgical and cardiac critical care, and complex airway management. His research interests include emergency critical care systems and the ED-to-ICU transition, healthcare technology and AI to support clinical documentation and workflow, and simulation-based education to improve procedural performance and ICU outcomes. A physician-educator and mentor within graduate medical education, he has held key leadership roles including Academic Chief Resident and continues to direct institution-wide training efforts in resuscitation and airway preparedness. Dr. Leibner earned his MD from Penn State College of Medicine and completed a PhD in biomaterials chemistry, followed by residency training in Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital and fellowship training in Surgical-Trauma Critical Care at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.