Tex Kissoon

FRCPC, MD, FAAP, MCCM

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
UBC & BC Children’s Hospital Professor in Critical Care – Global Child Health
Vice Chair, Global Sepsis Alliance
Vice Chair, International Pediatric Sepsis Initiative
Co-Chair, World Sepsis Day
Advisory Board Member, OpenPediatrics
Advisory Board Member, Sepsis Alliance
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

I am interested in methods of building capacity to provide timely services to children who are injured or acutely ill in resource poor areas of the world.

I am interested in issues relating to severe infection and sepsis as well as the planning of mass critical care in disasters and pandemics.

Academic Affiliations

  • Professor, , Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Healthy Starts
  • Research Group(s): Global Health and Innovations; Vaccines, Infections, and Host Defenses

Contact Information

Location

4500 Oak St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6H 3N1

Honours & Awards

The BNS Walia PGIMER Golden Jubilee Oration 2015 Award for major contribution to Pediatrics In India, Postgraduate Institute Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. 2015

Master of Critical Care Medicine (MCCM), The ACCM Convocations / SCCM Awards, October 2015

University of British Columbia Distinguished Achievement Award, Service to the University and to the Community, June 2016

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