Faculty

Iahn Cajigas Gonzalez, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Department: Neurosurgery

Graduate Group Affiliations

Neuroscience

Contact information

801 Spruce St. Fl. 8
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Office: 2158296700
Fax: 2158296645

Email:
iahn.cajigas@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Publications

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Education:
BSc (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002.
MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.
PhD (Electrical and Medical Engineering)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012.
MD (Medicine)
Harvard Medical School, 2014.

Links
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Research Website (RESTORE Lab)

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Description of Research Expertise

Signal processing, neuromodulation, brain computer interfaces, control systems, machine learning

Selected Publications

Luca, Corneliu, Ballesteros, Viviana Torres, Baumgartner, Michael, Gujral, Jaskeerat, Qiu, Liming, Piedade, Guilherme Santos, Widerstrom-Noga, Eva, Haq, Ihtsham, Noga, Brian, Jagid, Jonathan: Low Frequency Directional Deep Brain Stimulation of the Cuneiform Nucleus for Levodopa-resistant Freezing of Gait: Six-month Outcomes (P9-5.002). Neurology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Hagerstown, MD, 104(7_Supplement_1): 5314, 2025.

Howard, S. D., Singh, S., Macaluso, D., Hsu, J. Y., Cajigas, I., Qiu, L., Halpern, C. H., Aamodt, W. W., Farrar, J. T.: Correlation of the clinical rating scale for tremor with a global assessment. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 249: 108710, 2025.

Howard, S. D., Potluri, V. S., Hejazi-Garcia, C., Davis, P., Heuer, G. G., Punchak, M. A., Malhotra, N. R., Hsu, J. Y., Cajigas, I.: The social deprivation index and deep brain stimulation: A cohort study. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 252: 108860, 2025.

Davis, K. C., Wyse-Sookoo, K. R., Raza, F., Meschede-Krasa, B., Prins, N. W., Fisher, L., Brown, E. N., Cajigas, I., Ivan, M. E., Jagid, J. R., Prasad, A.: 5-year follow-up of a fully implanted brain-computer interface in a spinal cord injury patient. J Neural Eng 22(2), 2025.

Howard SD, Karsalia R, Ghenbot Y, Qiu L, Pomeraniec IJ, Lee JYK, Zager EL, Cajigas I.: A surgical decision aid for occipital neuralgia with literature review and single center case series. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 236: 108082, Jan 2024.

Vaz, A., Wathen, C., Miranda, S., Thomas, R., Darlington, T., Jabarkheel, R., Tomlinson, S., Arena, J., Bond, K., Salwi, S., Ajmera, S., Bachschmid-Romano, L., Gugger, J., Sandsmark, D., Diaz-Arrastia, R., Schuster, J., Ramayya, A. G., Cajigas, I., Pesaran, B., Chen, H. I., Petrov, D.: Return of intracranial beta oscillations and traveling waves with recovery from traumatic brain injury. bioRxiv 2024.

Qureshi, Qasim, Davis, Pierce Hunter, Vaz, Alex, Kim, Min Jae, Haggerty, Jarl, Wingel, Katie, Ho, Elton, Byun, Yoon Woo, Beauchamp, Michael S, Halpern, Casey H: Deciphering Spatiotemporal Patterns in the Motor Cortex Using a High-Density Micro-Electrocorticography Array. Neurosurgery 71(Supplement_1): 56, 2024.

Qiu, L., Pomeraniec, I. J., Howard, S. D., Ajmera, S., Bagley, L. J., Cajigas, I., Kennedy, B. C., Halpern, C. H.: Intraprocedural Three-Dimensional Imaging Registration Optimizes Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Focused Ultrasound and Facilitates Novel Applications. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown) 2024.

Kim, Min Jae, Qureshi, Qasim, Davis, Pierce Hunter, Vaz, Alex, Ho, Elton, Byun, Yoon Woo, Rapoport, Benjamin, Pesaran, Bijan, Cajigas, Iahn: Distinctive Spatial Distributions of Motor Cortex Oscillatory Dynamics After Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease. Neurosurgery 71(Supplement_1): 214, 2024.

Howard, S. D., Singh, S., Macaluso, D., Cajigas, I., Aamodt, W. W., Farrar, J. T.: Validation of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision-Clinical Modification Diagnostic Code for Essential Tremor. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) 14: 34, 2024.