Kusum Menon MD, MSc

Biography

Dr. Kusum Menon received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia in 1989, her training in pediatrics at the University of Ottawa in 1994, and her pediatric critical care fellowship at the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver in 1996. She then completed a research year in 1997 and obtained her Master’s in epidemiology in 2000, both at the University of Western Ontario. She is currently a senior investigator at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute. She has won numerous awards for research and research mentorship. Her areas of interest include adrenal insufficiency in pediatric critical care as well as the consent process in pediatric critical care research. She is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for work in these areas.