## About

Pankaj K. Sikka, MD, PhD, is a board-certified cardiothoracic anesthesiologist at Boston Medical Center – Brighton (BMC Brighton) and Boston Medical Center.

Dr. Sikka received his medical degree from Grant Government Medical College (Maharashtra University of Health Sciences) in Mumbai, India, and completed his anesthesiology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut. He subsequently completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology ...  at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Dr. Sikka also holds a doctorate (PhD) in research pharmacology from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He was one of the first to culture rat kidney cells in vitro, making it easy and inexpensive to perform experiments. He is a member of a taskforce of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Self-Education and Evaluation program and a coeditor of the textbook *Essential Clinical Anesthesi*a.

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- ### Departments
    
    [Anesthesiology](/departments/anesthesiology)
 
 

- ### Locations
    
    BMC Brighton, Main Hospital  
    [736 Cambridge St.  
    Brighton, MA 02135](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?q=736+Cambridge+St.%2C+Brighton%2C+MA+02135)  
    [617.789.3000](tel:617.789.3000)
    
       
     
    
    Boston Medical Center  
    [1 Boston Medical Center Pl  
    Boston, MA 02118](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?q=1+Boston+Medical+Center+Pl%0D%0ABoston%2C+MA+02118)  
    [617.638.6950](tel:617.638.6950)
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- ### Administrative Title
    
    Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
- ### Residency
    
    Anesthesiology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, 1997–2000
- ### Fellowship
    
    Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 2003–2004
- ### Education
    
     Medical School: Grant Government Medical College (Maharashtra University of Health Sciences), Mumbai, India, 1989
- ### Board Certifications
    
    Anesthesiology, American Board of Anesthesiology