Harish Bangalore Siddaiah, MD

Dr Harish Siddaiah received his undergraduate degree and medical degree from M.S. Ramaiah Medical College in Bangalore, India. Following this he completed his anesthesiology residency at LSU Health, Shreveport. He later completed his fellowship in critical care at Jackson Memorial Hospital/ University of Miami. He is currently an Associate Professor, board certified by American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) in anesthesiology, critical care, neurocritical care and by the National Board of Echocardiography in basic perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. He has been on staff at Ochsner LSU Health since 2015 and practicing medicine since 2004. Dr Siddaiah's expertise is in cardiothoracic anesthesia and neuroanesthesia. His other areas of expertise include critical care specifically neurocritical and cardiac critical care, perioperative transesophageal echocardiography, point of care ultrasound, resident and medical student education. He is currently the Neurointensive Care Unit Dyad and Program Director for the neuroanesthesiology fellowship program. He holds appointments as the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) examiner and is also the speaker at the Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshop held annually by the American Society of Anesthesiology ( ASA). He is widely published with more than 40 research papers, book chapters and 400 citations. In his spare time he enjoys playing tennis, biking and violin.