K. "Elliott" Higgins, MD

K. “Elliott” Higgins III, MD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. While he enjoys a broad practice, his main subspecialty expertise is in Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain management. Broadly, Elliott is passionate about patient safety, quality improvement, and working on systems solutions to enhance both patient safety and provider fulfillment. Elliott found his way to Anesthesiology by way of Crisis Resource Management. A Communications major in undergrad, Elliott found himself studying methodologies of non-technical skill optimization in a Simulation Laboratory at Northwestern University. Elliott followed the excitement of patient safety and is thrilled to be an academic anesthesiologist working to improve the safety of patients across health systems and beyond. While not working on the above, Elliott can be found chasing sunshine and awesome food with his husband or playing music with friends. Connect with him on Twitter & LinkedIn.