Dr. Balachundhar Subramaniam is a Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER, Pondicherry, India) and completed his residency in anesthesiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He received his postdoctoral training in Anesthesia at Beth Israel Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Subramaniam completed fellowships in Cardiac Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography, both Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston. He also obtained a MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. Since 2014 he has served as the Director of the Center for Anesthesia Research Excellence (CARE). In 2019 he was appointed as the first incumbent of the Ellison "Jeep" Pierce Chair of Anesthesia. Dr. Subramaniam's research program is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health as well as the pharmaceutical industry.