Full professor
Department of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine

François Lauzier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Anesthesiology & Critical Care at l’Université Laval and a scientist at the Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval. He obtained his medical degree and completed a residency in internal medicine and a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology at l’Université de Sherbrooke. He then completed his critical care medicine training and clinical research fellowship at McMaster University. He has been a Fonds de la recherche du Québec-Santé (FRQS) career award recipient over the last decade and his research work is mainly supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Dr. Lauzier is the co-lead of the HEMOTION trial, the largest transfusion threshold trial ever conducted in patients with moderate and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). He also currently co-leads BRAINapt, the first international platform trial in critically ill patients with moderate and severe TBI, recently funded by the CIHR.

Dr. Lauzier is also interested in the prevention of complications that can arise during hospitalization in the intensive care unit, and in optimizing the management of patients suffering from sepsis or requiring life-sustaining therapies.