Shazia Siddique, MD, MSHP

Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology

Shazia M. Siddique, MD MSHP is a gastroenterologist and health services researcher, with expertise in evidence synthesis and guideline development, quality improvement, and advocacy and policy. Dr. Siddique currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for MDCalc, a widely used platform to disseminate evidence-based tools to clinicians.

Dr. Siddique’s research, clinical expertise, and quality efforts aim to promote the integration of evidence-based practices into clinical care. She has served two terms on the Clinical Guidelines Committee for the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), and currently serves as the Director for AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center at ECRI-Penn Medicine. As a graduate of Penn’s Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety (CHIPS) program, she incorporates her work on evidence-based practices into quality improvement and patient safety.

Dr. Siddique also has over 10 years of experience in advocacy, as the former National Policy Chair, National Legislative Director, and National Vice President for Leadership Development for the American Medical Student Association. She also previously interned with the Patient Safety Programme at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and at ABC News Medical Unit in NY, where she explored the intersections of global health and journalism with policy. She is the founding Director of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Congressional Advocates Program, which is a grassroots policy program aimed to empower providers to serve as patient advocates.

Dr. Siddique graduated from Robert Wood Johnson Medical school, completed her internal medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, gastroenterology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Masters in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania.