Laura Cruz graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She initially practised Family Medicine. In 1996 she earned her Diploma of Sport Medicine and began devoting an increasing amount of her professional and volunteer energies to sport. Her Sport Medicine interests include physical activity promotion, injury prevention and active women.

Laura has been a volunteer and advisor for more than a decade with Rhythmic Gymnastics Canada, Gymnastics Ontario and more recently with Skate Canada. She has had the honour of travelling to several international competitions with both sports as the Canadian Team Physician and was the National Team physician for Rhythmic Gymnastics. Laura also works with runners, and hockey and soccer players of recreational to international competition caliber.

She is involved with various committees of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine- National Team Physician Committee, Women's Issues in Sport, and Dance Medicine Special Interest Group. She was a contributing author for "Childhood Fitness" position paper and the CASM curriculum study guide.

Laura studied classical ballet for 15 years, and was examined in and taught Cecchetti method for five. She also competed in track and field, cross country running and played on the U of T Faculty of Medicine women's soccer team.

Laura is the past Medical Director of the Olympic High Performance Training Centre in North York, a Sport Medicine Physician and Research Director at SportCARE, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and a co- owner of Pivot Sport Medicine and Orthopaedics. Laura is a Lecturer with the University of Toronto and received a 2005 "Teacher of the Year" award from St. Joseph's Health Centre Family Medicine residents.