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Santiago Ortega-Gutiérrez, MD, MSc

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology

Introduction

Dr. Santiago Ortega earned his MD at University of Alcala in Madrid Spain, did his Internal Medicine and Neurology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, completed a Neurocritical care and Stroke Fellowship at Columbia University, and an Endovascular Neurosurgery fellowship at Mount Sinai in New York. He is currently the Director of Neuro Interventional Surgery in Neurology at UI and the Neuroendovascular Surgical Neuroradiology Fellowship Director. He is also the Vice Chair of the Mechanical Thrombectomy 2020+ initiative and President-Elect of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology. His research interest includes cerebral autoregulation and hemodynamics, neuroimaging as a selection tool and developing novel endovascular approaches and devices to treat cerebrovascular ischemic and hemorrhagic disease. Currently Dr. Ortega-Gutierrez has over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as he is the PI in several NIH/NINDS, PCORI and industry funded investigator-initiated studies and Randomized Trials including MAP-STROKE, DIRECT and DONE SYMPLE.

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.