Dr Janardhan Baliga

Dr Baliga is a Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist with over 25 years of specialist experience across Singapore, the United Kingdom, and India. He holds a CCT in Anaesthesia from the United Kingdom, where he held a substantive NHS consultant post before relocating to Singapore. His tertiary hospital practice encompasses high-risk perioperative care, including anaesthetic management of emergency surgery, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, and regional anaesthesia. His clinical interests include perioperative safety, PACU service development, emergency laparotomy pathways, and procedural sedation governance. He has held institutional leadership roles including Chair of the Hospital Sedation Committee and Anaesthesia Lead for an award-recognised Emergency Laparotomy quality improvement programme.

Academically, he holds a Clinical Assistant Professor appointment at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate training, serves as an MMed examiner, and participates in regional airway, regional anaesthesia, and crisis resource management faculty. His academic interests include simulation-based education and responsible integration of emerging technologies in anaesthesia practice.

• 2011 FFICM (Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, London, UK)
• 2009 EDIC (European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Brussels, Belgium)
• 2009 CCT in Anaesthetics (General Medical Council, London, UK)
• 2006 FRCA (Royal College of Anaesthetists, London, UK)
• 2001 Diplomate of National Board-Anaesthesiology (National Board of Examinations, New Delhi, India)
• 2000 Diploma in Anaesthesiology (University of Mumbai, India)
• 1998 MBBS (University of Mysore, India)

1. Baliga J, Seshadri N. From prediction to practice: closing the translation gap in artificial intelligence for anesthesia. J Clin Monit Comput. 2026 Apr 22. doi: 10.1007/s10877-026-01434-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42018224.
2. Baliga J, Iau P, Kavishwar P, Joseph J, Sebastian A. Closing the implementation gap: Process outcomes following a structured intraoperative bundle for emergency laparotomy. Indian J Anaesth. 2026 Mar;70(3):477-484. doi: 10.4103/ija.ija_1716_25. Epub 2026 Mar 13. PMID: 41907333; PMCID: PMC13020940.
3. Lau JWL, Baliga J, Khan F, Teo YX, Yeo JMJ, Yeow VZ, Wu CX, Teo S, Goh TJH, Iau P; Emergency Laparotomy Group. Perioperative emergency laparotomy pathway for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy: A propensity score matched study. Ann Acad Med Singap. 2024 Dec 26;53(12):713-723. doi: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2024311. PMID: 39748170.
4. "SOE 6" and "SOE 9" Book Chapters, Janardhan Baliga, The Structured Oral Examination in Clinical Anaesthesia: Practice Examination Papers. Editors: Cyprian Mendonca, et al. TFM Publishing Ltd, 2009.
5. Gosavi CP, Baliga J, Choudhari LS. Epidural anaesthesia for Caesarean section in an achondroplastic dwarf: case report and literature review. Indian Journal of Anaesthesia. 2001 Oct;45(5):378-380.