Dr. Luis da Luz is a General Surgeon originally from Brazil. In Canada, Dr. Da Luz completed a Trauma Surgery Fellowship and a Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He also completed two Masters of Science, one at the Institute of Medical Sciences and another at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, both at the University of Toronto. In addition to his position as Associate Professor of Surgery and Staff Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Da Luz is an Associate Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. His research program focuses on the initial management of severely bleeding and coagulopathic trauma patients and trauma resuscitation in general, including improvement of team performance. His methodology expertise is in knowledge translation, systematic review and meta-analysis and most recently in clinical trials. He has recently concluded a multicenter trial across Canada assessing the use of clotting factors concentrated in bleeding and coagulopathic trauma patients.