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 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston. He also obtained an 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 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.