Omar Viswanath, MD is Double Board-Certified Anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Medicine Physician practicing in Phoenix, Arizona. He was born and raised in Naperville, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biology from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri and his Medical Degree from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He then completed his anesthesiology residency at Mt. Sinai Medical Center of Florida in Miami Beach, Florida where he also served as chief resident, and his interventional pain medicine fellowship at Harvard-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

He is a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at LSU Health Sciences School of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Creighton University School of Medicine, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. He is actively involved in research with the medical students, residents, and fellows at all three medical schools. He currently has over 425 PubMed indexed research article publications and he serves on the Editorial Board of several prestigious peer-reviewed anesthesiology and pain medicine journals including Current Pain and Headache Reports, Pain Medicine Case Reports, Journal of Pain Research, Pain and Therapy, Advances in Therapy, Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, Annals of Medicine, and Expert Review in Clinical Pharmacology.

His areas of expertise are in interventional pain medicine from both an interventional procedural and a multimodal treatment aspect, neuromodulation, analgesic medication optimization, headache management with a focus on both pharmacologic and interventional therapy, pain medicine training and education, and pain psychology. His areas of expertise in anesthesiology is perioperative medicine, regional anesthesia, acute pain management, and airway management.



Omar Viswanath, MD
Mountain View Headache and Spine Institute
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Creighton University School of Medicine
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, LSU Shreveport Health Sciences Center School of Medicine