Our Team

Niranjan 'Tex' Kissoon, Canada

Tex is President of the GSA and past President of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. Professor at UBC & BC Children’s Hospital in Critical Care and Global Child Health, Vancouver, Canada. He also holds the UBC BC Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair in Acute and Critical Care for Global Child Health. In 2020 he received the Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award, for Sustained Exemplary and Pioneering Achievements in the Care of Critically Ill and Injured Infants and Children.

Mariam Jashi, Georgia

Mariam brings 25 years of experience in Global Health from Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. From 2012 to 2020, she served as a Member of Parliament, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee, Deputy Minister of Health, and President of the Innovative Financing Secretariat hosted by the French Foreign Ministry. She is the Global Board Member of the UNITE Parliamentarians’ Network, Advisory Board Chair of Tbilisi Medical Academy, and Secretary General of Medical Women’s International Association. Her earlier experience includes 12 years of UNICEF and UNAIDS health program management and technical expertise to GAVI, The World Bank, and other international agencies. Mariam is the Mason Fellow of Harvard Kennedy School.

Abdulelah Alhawsawi, Saudi Arabia, VP of International Affairs

Abdulelah is Vice President of the GSA, Chair of the Eastern Mediterranean Sepsis Alliance, and founding Director-General of the Saudi Patient Safety Center (former) and MOH Advisor on Patient Safety. He holds the Dual Certified Board (American - Canadian) of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery. Abdulelah is a consultant to several national and international quality and safety organizations. He was part of the Expert Panel on the 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge of the WHO and chaired the Organizing Committee for the 4th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety. Abdulelah has helped introduce Patient Safety as a G20 priority in the 2020 G20 of Saudi Arabia.

Ron Daniels, United kingdom, VP of Communications

Ron is Vice President of the GSA and an NHS Consultant in Intensive Care, based in Birmingham, UK. He’s the Founder and Chief Executive of the UK Sepsis Trust. Ron has operationally transformed the delivery of reliable sepsis care in the UK and beyond, through his creation of the Red Flag Sepsis recognition tool and the Sepsis 6 treatment pathway. In 2016, he was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to patients.

Dennis Kredler, Belgium, VP of Advocacy and Policy

Dennis is Vice President of the GSA. He survived severe sepsis in 2016, suffering amputation of parts of his foot. He is now an advocate for better preventive sepsis policies throughout the European Union. In his professional life, he is Head of the Brussels Office with Dow. He holds Economics degrees from the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium), the University of Sussex (UK), and the University of Grenoble (France).

Brett Abbenbroek, Australia

Brett is Secretary of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance and Program Manager for the Australian Sepsis Network. He has extensive emergency and critical care clinical, education, and management experience. He has worked in Nepal, Vanuatu, China, and Croatia to establish cardiac surgical and critical care programs. Concurrently, Brett has held a range of health policy, planning, project management, digital health, and clinical safety advisory roles. A health service planning and management consultancy business followed, leading to project manager roles on a series of national eHealth and electronic medication safety programs.

Maha Aljuaid, Saudi Arabia

Maha is a critical care nurse specialist working as a director of nursing of Ambulatory Care and Hemodialysis at King Abdulaziz Medical City. She is a member of the Scientific Nursing Council, the Clinical Advisory Group for Stroke, and leads several quality improvement projects, e.g., improving sepsis education for nurses. Her research interest includes improving sepsis care and sedation practices in the ICU. Maha has contributed to several publications at distinguished journals and obtained several poster awards.

Shevin Jacob, Uganda

Shevin is an infectious diseases physician and Reader in Sepsis Research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He has been conducting research on adult sepsis in resource-constrained settings for over a decade and currently co-directs the African Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS). He also supports activities focused on improving the quality of clinical management for severely ill patients in Uganda through a collaboration between the Ministry of Health and Walimu, an Uganda-based non-government organization he co-founded. He serves as a consultant to the WHO for various working groups to improve the clinical management of sepsis and other severe illnesses in resource-constrained settings.

Imrana Malik, United States

Imrana is Chair of the GSA Advance Committee and Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Houston, Texas. She is primarily involved in direct patient care in the medical and surgical intensive care units. Her main clinical research interest involves sepsis in cancer patients.

Emmanuel Nsutebu, United Arab Emirates

Emmanuel is a Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician, Chair of the Tropical and Infectious Diseases Division and Infection Prevention Committee at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC), Abu Dhabi. He is Chair of the African Sepsis Alliance and investigator for the African Research Collaboration on Sepsis. He previously worked at the Royal Liverpool Hospital as Associate Medical Director for Deterioration and Sepsis and clinical advisor for the National Health Service (NHS) England (sepsis and deterioration).

Daniela Souza, Brazil

Daniela is a Pediatric Intensivist in Brazil (University of São Paulo and Hospital Sírio Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil) and the current President of the Latin American Sepsis Institute (LASI). She is Member of the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force (SSCM/ESPNIC/WFPICCS) and Sepsis Committee at the AMIB (Brazilian Intensive Care Medicine Association). Her involvement focuses on improving our understanding of sepsis, especially in children, and the challenges and priorities in low- and middle-income countries.

Marvin Zick, General Manager, Germany

Marvin is General Manager of the Global Sepsis Alliance. He has a background in Business Administration. Together with the GSA Executive Committee and Board, he is responsible for the strategic direction of the GSA, all communications, and all operations. He co-founded World Sepsis Congress in 2016 and is responsible for its planning, development, and execution ever since. He is in charge of personnel, our websites, most news posts, WSD News, and more.

Simone Mancini, Coordinator Regional Sepsis Alliances, Italy

Simone has joined the Global Sepsis Alliance as Coordinator of Regional Sepsis Alliances in October 2019. He has an extensive background in public affairs, external communications, and project management which he is putting to good use coordinating the work of the Regional Sepsis Alliances and the implementation of national sepsis strategies.

Katja CoubalL, Graphic Designer & Communication Manager, Germany

Katja is our graphic designer and communication manager. A professional photographer, she is responsible for nearly all visuals and much of the text you see – from our infographics to the WSD Event Poster, and much more. Additionally, she manages our communications, including but not limited to our social media channels, namely Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIN.

Ron Daniels, United kingdom

In addition to being a Vice President of the GSA, Ron also serves as Chair of our Communications Committee, coordinating all internal and external communications.

Luis Antonio Gorordo DEL SOL, Mexico

In addition to being a member of the GSA Board, Luis also serves as Chair of the World Sepsis Day Committee.

Imrana Malik, GSA Advance, United States

In addition to being a member of the Executive Committee, Imrana also serves as Chair of the GSA Advance Committee.

Nathan Nielsen, United States

Nathan is the Scientific Content Editor for the GSA and the WSD Movement. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Section of Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Environmental Medicine at the Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and the Associate Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University Medical Center - New Orleans.