Dr. Lauren Lacroix
Dr. Lauren Lacroix MD, FRCPC, PGDipMEd
Assistant Professor
TOH DEM Roles:
Deputy Head, Civic Campus
Program Director, Resuscitation, Area of Concentrated Expertise (ACE)/Fellowship
Simulation Instructor
External Roles:
ACLS Instructor
Royal College Accreditation Surveyor

Site: The Ottawa Hospital (TOH)



Biography

Medical school

  • Queen's University (2013)

Residency

  • Emergency Medicine, Royal College Residency Program, University of Ottawa (2018)
  • Fellowship in Resuscitation and Reanimation, Queen's University (2017)

Fellowship

  • Medical Education Research and Simulation, University of Ottawa Department of Innovation in Medical Education (2019)

Academic Focus

  • Resuscitation
  • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Medical Education Leadership

Selected Publications

  • Lacroix, L, Thurgur, L, Orkin, AM, Perry, JJ, Stiell IG. Emergency physicians’ attitudes and perceived barriers to the implementation of take-home naloxone programs in Canadian emergency departments. CJEM. 2018. 20(1):46-52
  • Hall, AK, Dagnone, JD, Lacroix, L, Pickett, W, Klinger, DA. Queen’s simulation assessment tool: development and validation of an assessment tool for resuscitation objective structured clinical examination stations in emergency medicine. Simulation in Healthcare. 2015. 10(2): 98-105.
  • Dagnone, JD, Takhar, A, Lacroix, L. The Simulation Olympics: a resuscitation-based simulation competition as an educational intervention. CJEM. 2012. 14(6): 363-8.



Updated - April 2026