Iahn Cajigas Gonzalez, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurosurgery
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
801 Spruce St. Fl. 8
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Office: 2158296700
Fax: 2158296645
Fax: 2158296645
Publications
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.
Permanent linkBSc (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.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Movement disorders, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, essential tremor, freezing of gait, neuromodulation, stereotactic neurosurgery, gamma knife, epilepsy surgery, responsive neurostimulation, deep brain stimulation, speech and motor mapping, facial pain, cancer painDescription of Research Expertise
Signal processing, neuromodulation, brain computer interfaces, control systems, machine learningSelected 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.