Shahla Siddiqui, MD

Shahla Siddiqui, MBBS, MSc, FCCM, is a Board-certified anesthesiologist, intensivist, and ethicist, with 25 years of clinical experience in academic medicine. Dr. Siddiqui did her residency at the University of Maryland and a Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Columbia University, NY in 2002.  She has a special interest in medical ethics with a Master's from the National University of Singapore.  She is also an Ethics faculty member at the Harvard Medical School, Co-Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee, and an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care.  Dr. Siddiqui had global experience practicing in university-affiliated hospitals in Asia before working at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and has research interest in the humanities, racial disparities, burnout, and medical ethics, as well as a passion for medical education. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and chapters as well, and has held multiple peer-reviewed grants. Dr. Siddiqui is an ardent supporter of gender and URM academic and professional movements and is an active member of the American Society of Anesthesia's Critical Care Medicine,  Ethics Committees, SOCCA, SCCM, ESICM, as well as the ASA Covid 19 Council.   She has also been part of several end-of-life guidelines and policies.  Her focus is on qualitative methodology, socioeconomic determinants of health, and ethical reviews.  Dr. Siddiqui has been involved in helming educational, professional, and research talks and webinars through the ASA, ESICM, and SCCM on pandemic-related topics throughout 2020 and beyond.  Her work has been published and presented at numerous meetings. Dr. Siddiqui strives for academic excellence with multiple peer-reviewed publications and has won the Healthcare Delivery Science grant (2021), the John Hedley Whyte grant (2022), and the National Rosalind Franklin Society award (2023)* for the best paper by a woman or a URM scholar.