Niranjan Kissoon
Also known as: Tex Kissoon
University of British Columbia, BC Children's Hospital, University of the West Indies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
Research areas: Medicine · Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine · Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders · Biliary and Gastrointestinal Fistulas · Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
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About
Dr. Niranjan “Tex” Kissoon is from the Division of Critical Care and he is the Past President of the World Federation of Pediatric Critical and Intensive Care Societies, Vice-President, Medical Affairs at BC Children’s Hospital and Professor, Pediatric and Surgery (Emergency Medicine) Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC as well as he holds the University of British Columbia BC Children’s Hospital (UBC BCCH) Endowed Chair in Acute and Critical Care for Global Child Health. Dr. Kissoon is the vice chair of the Global Sepsis Alliance, co-chair of World Sepsis Day and the International Pediatric Sepsis Initiative.). He has been involved in both advocacy and in promoting Canada-wide involvement in World Sepsis Day as part of a global initiative. He is also involved in promoting sepsis guidelines such that appropriate treatments are given even in areas where there are limited resources.
He is 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, and in issues relating to severe infection and sepsis as well as the planning of mass critical care in disasters and pandemics.
Employment
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University of British Columbia Professor2011 - Present
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BC Children's Hospital Vice-President2008 - Present
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University of British Columbia Professor2004 - Present
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University of British Columbia Senior Medical Director, Acute and Critical Care Program2004 - 2008
Education
- 1973 - 1978
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University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus BSc1969 - 1973
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (703)
- Adding discharge characteristics to improve six-month post-discharge mortality prediction in under-five children with suspected sepsis in Ugandan hospitals Save
- Soft-Label Machine Learning for Verbal Autopsy: Incorporating Diagnostic Uncertainty in Cause-of-Death Estimation Save
- Assessment of Facility Readiness for Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Utilizing a 2-Phase Survey Conducted in Six Hospitals in Uganda and Cameroon: A Quality Improvement Study Save
- Discharge policies and care practices for children with suspected sepsis: A health facility scan at a nationally representative sample of hospitals and health centres in Uganda Save
- Disproportionate Rates of COVID-19 Among Black Canadian Communities: Lessons from a Cross-Sectional Study in the First Year of the Pandemic Save
- Diverging Pathways: Exploring the Interplay between Hospital Readmission and Post-Discharge Mortality in Pediatric Sepsis in Low-Income Settings Save
- Diverging pathways: exploring the interplay between hospital readmission and postdischarge mortality in paediatric sepsis in low-income settings Save
- Epinephrine vs Norepinephrine as the Initial Vasoactive Agent in Pediatric Septic Shock: A Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial for Recruitment Rates and Protocol Adherence, the Epinephrine vs Norepinephrine in Pediatric Septic Shock Trial Save
- Exploring two-way text messages for post-discharge follow-up and quality improvement in rural Uganda Save
- Exposure to pollutants for household cooking and lighting and pediatric post-discharge mortality following a severe infection in Uganda Save
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific burden of diarrhoeal diseases, their risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2021, for 204 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 Save
- Hyperprocalcitonemia and Endothelial and Microcirculatory Dysfunction in Children With Sepsis and Septic Shock: Single-Center Observational Cohort Study in Colombia, 2021–2024 Save
- Improving pediatric care in Uganda with a digital platform and quality improvement initiative: A retrospective review of Smart Triage + QI Save
- Infant-level and child-level predictors of mortality in low-resource settings: the WHO Child Mortality Risk Stratification Multi-Country Pooled Cohort Save
- Post-Discharge Mortality, Readmission, and Care Seeking Among Postpartum Women and Their Newborns Following Facility-Based Delivery in Uganda: A Prospective Observational Study Save
- Prevalence of Sepsis as Defined by Phoenix Sepsis Definition Among Children With COVID-19 Save
- Prevalence, aetiology, and hospital outcomes of paediatric acute critical illness in resource-constrained settings (Global PARITY): a multicentre, international, point prevalence and prospective cohort study Save
- Proposed Core Outcomes After Neonatal Sepsis A Consensus Statement Save
- Reducing global inequities in medical oxygen access: the Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security Save
- Smart Discharges improves post-discharge mortality among children with suspected sepsis in Uganda: A prospective before-after study Save