Dr. Santiago Ortega earned his MD at the 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, and 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.

Mentee:  Jenny Huynh