David Lawrence

Dr. David Lawrence is a sports and exercise medicine physician and the lead team primary care physician for the Toronto Blue Jays. He completed his medical school, family & community medicine residency, and sports and exercise medicine fellowship at the University of Toronto. He completed a post-grad Masters of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Dr. Lawrence holds hospital privileges at Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health), Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (University Health Network) and Haliburton Highlands Health Services: Hospital (Haliburton, Ontario).

Dr. Lawrence has clinical experience working with athletes of all ages and levels of experience. Dr. Lawrence has worked with many elite and professional athlete’s and has volunteered at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games, and the 2013 FISU Winter Games (Kazan, Russia). He has a clinical interest in the management of sports-related concussion.

Dr. Lawrence is actively involved in academia, research, and clinical teaching. His research interests include sports-related concussion and injury prevention. Dr. Lawrence has published extensively in high-impact sports medicine journals and has presented his findings at international sports medicine, concussion, and brain injury conferences. Dr. Lawrence is on the scientific advisory board for the EMPWR foundation: a charitable organization created to advance the recovery of concussion injuries.