Laura Weber, MD

I grew up in Long Island in Manhasset with my parents and older older brother.  I then did my undergraduate studies in economics at Johns Hopkins University where I graduated Phi Beta Kappa. I came back home to New York for medical school at NYU Grossman School of medicine and have been at NYU the entirety of my medical training. During medical school, I fell in love with emergency medicine because I realized that the part of medicine I enjoyed most was helping people in their most critical moments by solving problems with limited information. I did my residency in Emergency Medicine at NYU/Bellevue and graduated in 2021. During residents I became interested in medical education, simulation, and quality and safety. I did a fellowship in simulation and graduated in 2021 and stayed on as faculty. I am now the program director for the emergency medicine simulation fellowship at NYU as well as the in-situ simulation site director at NYU Tisch Hospital and director of the residency simulation elective. My research and educational interests in include mastery learning courses, using simulation as a means for studying quality and safety improvement, and UME. I live in Manhattan with my husband and two children.