Niranjan “Tex” Kissoon, MD, FRCP (C), FAAP, MCCM, FACPE, is a professor at both BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) and UBC Global Child Health in the Department of Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Kissoon is also a Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. He holds the UBC BC Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair in Acute and Critical Care for Global Child Health. In November 2020, Dr. Kissoon was elected the new President of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA). He is a Co-Chair of World Sepsis Day and the International Pediatric Sepsis Initiative, and also serves on the Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guideline Committee.