Dr. Laurie Morrison to Receive the Hans H. Dahll Award at the 2025 Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit
CHICAGO — Dec. 1, 2025 — The Citizen CPR Foundation will present the prestigious Hans H. Dahll Award to Dr. Laurie J. Morrison at the Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit (CASSummit 2025), held Dec. 3–6 at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Established in 1988, the Hans Dahll Award, sponsored by the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine, recognizes exceptional, career-long contributions to CPR and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC), celebrating leaders whose work has advanced research, education and innovation across the field.
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 established Rescu, a collaborative prehospital research network. Together, the Rescu investigators conducted randomized controlled trials and outcome validation studies in resuscitation research (cardiac arrest and trauma) and contributed to the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. She founded the Collaborative Specialization in Resuscitation Sciences enabling the training of over 80 graduate students. Rescu has evolved into a national resuscitation network for Canada (CanROC).
She has published over 380 papers, held over $26M in peer reviewed grants as a principal investigator and has an h index of 77 (web of science). She contributed to the development of the 2005 and 2010 and 2015 North American Guidelines. She provides scientific oversight of the Continuous Evidence Evaluation strategy for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. She is founding member and current chair of the Network of Canadian Emergency Medicine Researchers. This network provides peer review and mentorship of emerging researchers and support for multicenter trials.
Dr. Morrison has received the Canadian Medical Association May Cohen award for excellence in mentorship; was granted honorary membership by the European Resuscitation Council for lifetime achievement in resuscitation sciences in 2017; gave the AHA Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Lecture in 2018 and was named a Giant in Resuscitation by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation in 2021. She gave the honorary Negovsky lecture for the European Resuscitation Council and she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Resuscitation Sciences from the American Heart Association. In 2025, she received the King Charles’ III Coronation medal as a Heart and Stroke nominee.
“Laurie is truly a ‘giant’ in resuscitation in so many ways,” said Katie Dainty, Research Chair at North York General Hospital. “Her steadfast commitment to rigorous science, her generous mentorship of the next generation of clinicians and scientists, her fervent sponsorship of women in research and resuscitation, and most importantly her genuinely kind and deeply inclusive approach have changed the face of resuscitation science.”
About the Award
The Hans H. Dahll Award honors individuals whose work reflects the values championed by Dahll, a founding director of the Citizen CPR Foundation and an influential force in expanding CPR and ECC education nationally and internationally. Recipients are recognized for sustained contributions to the science of resuscitation, authorship of seminal research and educational materials, leadership in ECC program development, and innovation that drives the field forward. Awardees are selected biennially and represent the highest level of achievement in the resuscitation community.
Dr. Morrison embodies these ideals through her decades-long commitment to improving survival from cardiac arrest and trauma, her influence on international guidelines, and her work to build collaborative research networks that strengthen the science and practice of emergency care.
The award will be presented at the Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit on Thursday, December 4, along with a presentation from Dr. Morrison.
About the Citizen CPR Foundation:
The Citizen CPR Foundation has pursued its mission for more than four decades: We believe that every individual has the potential to make a difference in time-sensitive emergencies. We are committed to empowering citizens, professionals and organizations through comprehensive education, training and advocacy.
The Foundation hosts the biennial Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit (CASSummit), serving as the central hub for resuscitation professionals serving in every link in the chain of survival, as well as survivors and advocates. The Foundation also hosts the HEARTSafe Community initiative, which provides guidance to communities on a systems approach to improving sudden cardiac arrest survival rates.
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