Lara Zibners, MD, FAAP
Lara Zibners, MD, FAAP, FACEP graduated from medical school at Ohio State University in 1997 and completed her residency in Pediatrics, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In 2003, she accepted an attending position at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City in the pediatric emergency department. In 2006, Dr. Zibners resigned her position in order to relocate with her family to the United Kingdom. As a fully recognized specialist there, she is currently an honorary consultant in the Paediatric Accident and Emergency Department at St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Trust. She is active at both the national and international level in the delivery of the ATLS program and is currently the Emergency Medicine representative for ATLS-UK at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. As of 2013, Dr. Zibners returned to Mount Sinai's faculty as a nonclinical instructor in the pediatric emergency department. She is the author of the award winning If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay, (Hachette 2009), has served as Parenting magazine’s Kid’s Health author, has been featured in multiple online and printed articles, and has appeared on both local and national television. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, a monthly publication.