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Dr Janice Tijssen

Dr. Janice Tijssen is the Director of the Paediatric Critical Care Unit and Deputy Chair for Clinical Operations and Quality for the Children’s Hospital in London, Ontario. She completed her medical school at McGill University, and pediatric and critical care training at McMaster University, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She completed her Masters in Health Services Research at the University of Toronto. 

Her program of research focuses on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and access to health care. She is a member of the Paediatric Life Support Taskforce for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and is involved in producing internationally accepted resuscitation guidelines adopted by the American Heart Association and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Dr. Tijssen is the Chair of the Paediatric Emphasis Group, a committee of the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee of the American Heart Association. She is the medical director for the Children’s Hospital- London Health Sciences Centre’s Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) education program and the Paediatric Critical Care Outreach team (PCCOT)