Niranjan "Tex" Kissoon, MD, FRCP(C), FAAP, MCCM, FACPE

Executive Medical Director, Children’s and Women’s Global Health UBC and BCCH; Professor Pediatric Emergency Medicine; University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital; Vice President, Global Sepsis Alliance

Niranjan Kissoon is Professor, BC Children’s Hospital and UBC Global Child Health, Department of Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine University of British Columbia. Niranjan Kissoon is Past President of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS); Professor, Pediatric 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, is Vice President, Global Alliance for Sepsis (GSA), Co-Chair, World Sepsis Day, International Pediatric Sepsis Initiative, and the Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guideline Committee.

Dora Hughes, MD, MPH

Associate Research Professor, George Washington University

Dr. Dora Hughes is Research Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health and Research Associate Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University, where her work focuses on the intersection of clinical and community health, social determinants of health, health equity, healthcare quality and workforce. Previously, Dr. Hughes was a Senior Policy Advisor at Sidley Austin, where she advised on regulatory and legislative matters in the life science industry. Prior to that, she served for nearly four years in the Obama Administration as Counselor for Science & Public Health to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at HHS. Dr. Hughes began her career in health policy as Senior Program Officer at the Commonwealth Fund, and subsequently as Deputy Director for the HELP Committee under Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She then served as the Health Policy Advisor to former Senator Barack Obama. Dr. Hughes received a BS from Washington University, MD from Vanderbilt, and MPH from Harvard. She completed internal medicine residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.