Emergency physician receives CMA May Cohen Award for Women Mentors
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CJEM 2005;7(6):431
Dr. Laurie Morrison, from Toronto, recently received the Canadian Medical Association 2005 May Cohen Award for Women Mentors. Dr. Morrison is a mentor who actively seeks out opportunities to develop the academic careers of emergency medicine specialists, and she has advocated strongly for protected time and funding to establish the Clinician Scientist and Educator programs at the faculty and resident levels. She is known for her insight regarding training issues and program opportunities, and for helping young physicians develop professional networks at the university, hospital and national levels.
After medical training at McMaster and McGill universities, she was certified in Emergency Medicine in 1988. She subsequently completed clinical research and toxicology fellowships at the University of Toronto, joining the faculty in 1990. She currently is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine with a cross appointment in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.
Since 1992 she has been Director of the Division of Emergency Medicine, and in 1998 she also became Director of the Prehospital and Transport Medicine Research Program at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. She earned a Master's degree in health research design from McMaster in 2000. Today she is a clinician scientist at the University of Toronto in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and scientist at both the Institute of Medical Sciences and Sunnybrook and Women's College Research Institute.
The recipient of numerous research awards and grants, she currently is a co-principal investigator in the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Research Consortium to Improve Resuscitation Outcomes and Chair of the Acute Coronary Syndrome Task Force for the International Council of Resuscitation. In 1996 she received the Boyd Academy Clerkship Clinical Teaching Award, and in 2004 she was awarded the William Goldie Prize for advancing sound knowledge in emergency medicine through leadership, research and teaching.
Dr. Laurie Morrison has combined her personal drive for academic excellence and leadership with raising three children, inspiring others to pursue their research and medical careers without sacrificing the joys and rewards of family life.
Dr. Laurie Morrison is the 5th recipient of the Canadian Medical Association's May Cohen Award for Women Mentors. This CMA Award is awarded annually to a woman physician who has demonstrated outstanding mentoring abilities. Some of these qualities include encouraging, facilitating and supporting mentees in career and leadership development and acting as an effective role model in medicine or medical leadership.
Adapted, with permission, from a CMA Aug. 10, 2005, press release.
