Santiago Ortega-Gutiérrez, MD, MSc

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology

Current Positions

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology
Specialty: Neurointerventional Surgery, Neurology

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Basic science), School of Medicine, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
MD in Medicine, Universidad de Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
MSc in Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Internship in Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Resident in Internal Medicine/Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Fellow in Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Fellow in Vascular Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Fellow in Endovascular Neurosurgery, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, New York, United States

Research Interests

“Mechanisms of Neonatal striatal injury post-asphyxia: Role of Na-K- ATPase”. Medical College of Wisconsin - Research Affairs Committee. Principal Investigator: Michel T. Torbey, MD, MPH
Co-Investigator – Clinical Neuroscience
Co-Investigator – Clinical Neuroscience
Co-Investigator – Clinical Neuroscience
Research Assistant – Neurobiology
Co-Investigator-Clinical Neuroscience
Investigator – Basic Neuroscience
Investigator – Clinical Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Fellow – Neurosciences

Licenses & Certifications

Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa
Diplomate in Neurocritical Care, United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties, New York
Medical License, New York State Office of the Professions, New York
Psychiatry and Neurology, American Boards of Psychiatry and Neurology
2009 Stroke Scale Certification, National Stroke Association
Modified Rankin Scale
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Medical License, Wisconsin DSPS, Wisconsin
2005 BLS/ACLS, American Heart Association

Selected Publications

Ortega-Gutierrez, S., Kaminsky, I., Marupudi, N. & Narayanan, S. (2017). Spinal vascular lesions. In Kofke, W. A., Schuster, J., Levine, J. & Kumar, M. (Eds.) Neurocritical Care Management of the Neurosurgical Patient. Elsevier.
Samaniego, E., Kalousek, V., Abdo, G. & Ortega-Gutierrez, S. (2016). Preliminary experience with Precipitating Hydrophobic Injectable Liquid (PHIL) in treating cerebral AVMs. Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery 8 (12) 1253–1255. DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-012210.
Samaniego, E. A., Abdo, G., Hanel, R. A., Lima, A., Ortega-Gutierrez, S. & Dabus, G. (2015). Endovascular treatment of PICA aneurysms with a Low-profile Visualized Intraluminal Support (LVIS Jr) device. Journal of neurointerventional surgery. DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-012070. PMID: 26534868.
Leira, E. C., Zaheer, A., Schnell, T., Torner, J. C., Olalde, H. M., Pieper, A. A., Ortega-Gutierrez, S., Nagaraja, N., Marks, N. L. & Adams, Jr, H. P. (2015). Effect of helicopter transport on neurological outcomes in a mouse model of embolic stroke with reperfusion: AIR-MICE pilot study. International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society 10 Suppl A100 119-24. DOI: 10.1111/ijs.12619. PMID: 26376603.
Lantigua, H., Ortega-Gutierrez, S., Schmidt, J. M., Lee, K., Badjatia, N., Agarwal, S., Claassen, J., Connolly, E. S. & Mayer, S. A. (2015). Subarachnoid hemorrhage: who dies, and why?. Critical care (London, England) 19 309. DOI: 10.1186/s13054-015-1036-0. PMID: 26330064.
Paramasivam, S., Altschul, D., Ortega-Gutiarrez, S., Fifi, J. & Berenstein, A. (2015). N-butyl cyanoacrylate embolization using a detachable tip microcatheter: initial experience. Journal of neurointerventional surgery 7 (6) 458-61. DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2014-011165. PMID: 24714611.
Martínez-Galdámez, M., Pérez, S., Vega, A., Ruiz, P., Caniego, J. L., Bárcena, E., Saura, P., Méndez, J. C., Delgado, F., Ortega-Gutierrez, S., Romance, A., Diaz, T., Gonzalez, E., Gil, A., Murias, E. & Vega, P. (2015). Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms using the Pipeline Flex embolization device: a case series of 30 consecutive patients. Journal of neurointerventional surgery. DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-011669. PMID: 25770120.
Shwe, Y., Paramasivam, S., Ortega-Gutierrez, S., Altschul, D., Berenstein, A. & Fifi, J. T. (2015). High-flow carotid cavernous fistula and the use of a microvascular plug system: initial experience. Interventional neurology 3 (2) 78-84. DOI: 10.1159/000369477. PMID: 26019711.
Petersen, N. H., Ortega-Gutierrez, S., Reccius, A., Masurkar, A., Huang, A. & Marshall, R. S. (2015). Dynamic cerebral autoregulation is transiently impaired for one week after large-vessel acute ischemic stroke. Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) 39 (2) 144-50. DOI: 10.1159/000368595. PMID: 25661277.
Cuello, J. P., Ortega-Gutierrez, S., Linares, G., Agarwal, S., Cunningham, A., Mohr, J. P., Mayer, S. A., Marshall, R. S., Claassen, J., Badjatia, N., Elkind, M. S. & Lee, K. (2014). Acute cervical myelopathy due to presumed fibrocartilaginous embolism: a case report and systematic review of the literature. Journal of spinal disorders & techniques 27 (8) E276-81. DOI: 10.1097/BSD.0000000000000115. PMID: 24901879.