Omar Viswanath

What is the educational background of Omar Viswanath, MD?

He was born and raised in Naperville, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biology from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and his Medical Degree from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He then completed his anesthesiology residency at Mt. Sinai Medical Center of Florida in Miami Beach, Florida where
he also served as chief resident, and his interventional pain medicine fellowship at Harvard-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

What is the professional background of Omar Viswanath, MD?

He is a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Creighton University School of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at LSU Health Sciences School of Medicine, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. He is actively involved in research with the medical students, residents, and fellows at all three medical
schools. He currently has over 425 PubMed-indexed research article publications and he serves on the Editorial Board of several prestigious peer-reviewed anesthesiology and pain medicine journals, including Current Pain and Headache Reports, Pain Medicine Case Reports, Journal of Pain Research, Pain and Therapy, Advances in Therapy, Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, Annals of Medicine, and Expert Review in Clinical Pharmacology.

What are Omar Viswanath, MD areas of expertise?

His areas of expertise are in interventional pain medicine from both an interventional procedural and a multimodal treatment aspect, neuromodulation, analgesic medication optimization, headache management with a focus on both pharmacologic and interventional therapy, pain medicine training and education, and pain psychology. His areas of expertise in anesthesiology is perioperative medicine, regional anesthesia, acute pain management, and airway management.