Niranjan Kissoon

Background

Kissoon, Niranjan was born on January 2, 1954 in Cunupia, Trinidad, West Indies.

Education

Graduate, Hillview College, Tunapuna, Trinidad, 1972; graduate, U. West Indies, St. Augustine, 1973; Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, U. West Indies, 1978.

Career

Rotating intern, Port of Spain (Trinidad) General Hospital, 1978-1979; junior resident, U. Calgary Foothills Hospital, Ontario, Canada, 1979-1980; senior resident, U. Calgary Foothills Hospital, Ontario, Canada, 1980-1982; fellow in emergency pediatrics, U. Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, 1982-1983; fellow in intensive care and anesthesia, U. Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, 1983-1984; assistant professor pediatrics, U. Calgary, 1984-1985; director pediatric transport team, Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada, 1984-1985; assistant professor pediatrics, U. Western Ontario, Canada, 1985-1989; associate professor pediatrics, U. Western Ontario, Canada, 1989-1991; director pediatric emergency and ambulatory medical services, staff physician pediatric critical care, Children's Hospital Western Ontario, Canada, 1985-1991; associate professor pediatrics, U. Florida Health Sciences Center, Jacksonville, 1991-1994; professor pediatrics, U. Florida Health Sciences Center, Jacksonville, since 1994; research coordinator pediatric critical care medicine, U. Florida Health Sciences Center, Jacksonville, since 1991; director pediatric critical care unit, Wolfson Children's Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida, since 1992. Member consulting staff pediatrics U. Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada, 1985-1991. Staff physician in critical care and emergency Alberta Children's Hospital, 1985.

Honorary lecturer department medicine U. Western Ontario, 1987. Member CRT committee Baptist Medical Center, member pediatric critical care committee, member quality assurance committee. Member committee Jacksonville (Florida) Pediatric Injury Control.

Member of national force member task force Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Committee. Medical advisor Reye's Syndrome Foundation Canada, since 1985. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Niranjan Kissoon has been listed as a noteworthy Pediatric educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow College Critical Care Medicine. Member Royal College Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (examiner in emergency medicine 1986-1991), Canada Pediatric Society (representative to Trauma Association Canada, secretary, member Executive Committee section on emergency medicine, member Executive Committee task force on resuscitation, co-chairman conference on pediatric resuscitation), American Academy Pediatrics (member section membership-transport, member section membership-emergency medicine, member section membership-critical care, member advanced pediatric life support task force), American Association Respiratory Care, American Federation Clinical Research, Canada Association Emergency Physicians, Canada Critical Care Medicine, Ontario Medical Association, Trauma Association Canada, Society Academy Emergency Medicine.

Connections

Married; 2 children.