UWIMAA Canada's Distinguished Service Award 2018 goes to Dr Tex Kissoon
The UWIMAA Canadian Chapter Distinguished Service Award 2018 was presented to Dr Tex Kissoon for his excellence in medical service and research in Global Health
The award was presented at our Annual General Meeting 2018 by Dr Upton Allen to Dr Niranjan Tex Kissoon- UWI MBBS Class of 1978.
His work and research in global health and critical care in low- and middle-income countries has been influential and is based on health inequities globally.
Dr Kissoon is:
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Executive Medical Director, C&W Global Health
UBC & BC Children’s Hospital Professor in Critical Care – Global Child Health
President, Global Sepsis Alliance
Chairman, Centre for International Child Health – BC Children’s Hospital
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
We are honoured to call him a colleague and fellow alumnus of our Alma Mater!
