Siddharth Srivastava, MD

Dr. Siddharth Srivastava is an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric neurologist at Boston Children’s Hospital specializing in neurogenetics and developmental conditions. He completed his medical training in child neurology and developmental disabilities at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, followed by a fellowship in neurogenetics at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Siddharth’s research focuses on finding genetic causes of autism, intellectual disability and cerebral palsy. His work combines gene discovery, long-term patient tracking, biological marker testing and clinical trials.

His research has provided key patient data that helped launch gene therapy trials, led multiple clinical studies for genetic conditions and helped establish new guidelines for medical genetic testing. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, Siddharth has received national recognition for his work, including the Philip P. Dodge Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society.