Omar Siddiqi, MD, MPH
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Omar Siddiqi is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He was based full-time at the University of Zambia School of Medicine from 2010 – 2021 where he continues to hold an appointment as Visiting Lecturer. Dr. Siddiqi’s laboratory has been involved in research to understand the disease burden of central nervous system opportunistic infections in HIV-infected Zambian adults. His laboratory uses molecular diagnostics and post-mortem tissue samples to classify the etiology of meningitis and encephalitis in the adult population and more recently in pediatrics. He is one of the founding members of the Zambia Institute of Neurological Care, Research, and Education (ZINCARE).