Professor and Clinician Scientist
University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Dr. Laurie J. Morrison is Professor and Clinician Scientist in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Her program of research is focused on the evaluation and implementation of time sensitive interventions in acute emergencies. She conducts clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses in topics pertaining to Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. She established a collaborative prehospital research network to conduct randomized controlled trials and outcome validation studies in resuscitation research (cardiac arrest and trauma) on behalf of the Rescu Investigators www.rescu.cc. (Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, Canadian CanROC )
Dr. Morrison co-leads the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network developing clinical decision rules to guide the emergency management of suspected COVID 19. She received funding from the US National Institute of Health, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Laerdal Foundation, Ontario Government, Brain Canada and the American Heart Association. She has published over 300 papers, held over $26M as a principal investigator and has an h index of over 70 (web of science). She contributed to the development of the 2005, 2010 and 2015 AHA Guidelines. She is currently providing scientific oversight of the Continuous Evidence Evaluation strategy for International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation.
Dr Morrison has received the distinction of Fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2016 and was granted honorary membership by the European Resuscitation Council for life time achievement in resuscitation sciences in 2017. She was awarded the 2017 Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Lecture by the American Heart Association. In 2021 she was named a Giant in Resuscitation by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Resuscitation Sciences from the American Heart Association in 2023.
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