Dr. Leo Kobayashi, MD

Leo Kobayashi, MD, co-director of the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center, completed his emergency medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital in 2002 and has acquired significant experience in medical simulation from academic, research and teaching duties at the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center. Kobayashi is an associate professor and active educator in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and its postgraduate training program in emergency medicine. His research focuses on advancing the concepts of portable simulation for acute care systems probing for patient safety, in situ device use-testing and multi-patient simulation for emergency care. Kobayashi is past chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Simulation Interest Group, inaugural panel member of the SAEM Simulation Academy and a reviewer for the Society for Simulation in Healthcares journal Simulation in Healthcare.