Dr. Morrison is the Robert & Dorothy Pitts Research Chair in Acute Care & Emergency Medicine, Professor and Clinician Scientist in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St Michael’s Hospital. She is the Director of Rescu, a resuscitation research program focusing on the evaluation and implementation of prehospital and transport medicine time sensitive interventions in acute emergencies (www.rescu.ca). She conducts systematic reviews and meta-analyses in topics pertaining to Acute Coronary Syndrome and Resuscitation and has established a collaborative network to conduct randomized controlled trials and outcome validation studies in prehospital resuscitation research. She is a US National Institute of Health, Canadian Institute of Health Research and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Brain Canada funded investigator. She contributed to the development of the 2005 and 2010 AHA Guidelines. She is currently a member of the International Liaison Committee of Resuscitation Advance Life Support Taskforce for Guidelines 2015. She was born and educated in Peterborough Ontario, Canada and completed her undergraduate at Queens University and her medical degree at McMaster University. She completed postgraduate training in Emergency Medicine at McGill University prior to completing her fellowship at the University of Toronto and returning to McMaster in 2000 to obtain a graduate degree in Health Research Design. She has received the Canadian Medical Association award for excellence in mentorship; the May Cohen award and a similar award from the U of T with the Department of Medicine; Bob Hyland award. She was awarded the William Goldie award from the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto for outstanding contribution as a leader and scholar in Emergency Medicine. And, this year she was awarded the U of Toronto Helen P. Batty Award for Excellence and Achievement in Faculty Development for Sustained Contribution to the field