Omar K. Siddiqi, MD

Omar K. Siddiqi, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where he directs the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Program, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, where he serves as codirector of the second-year medical school cardiovascular pathophysiology module.

Dr. Siddiqi earned his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and he completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at Boston Medical Center.

Dr. Siddiqi’s clinical interests include cardiac amyloidosis and echocardiography, and he is an attending cardiologist in the BMC/BU Amyloidosis Center. His clinical research focuses on assessment of novel therapies for the treatment of cardiac amyloidosis.

In his role as an educator, for which he has won two teaching awards, Dr. Siddiqi’s accomplishments include developing an echocardiography curriculum for BMC’s Solomont Simulation Center and developing an academic half-day for cardiovascular medicine fellows. His research in the area of medical education focuses on the development of simulation-based curricula and the integration of team-based learning (TBL) in teaching ECGs.