Penn Medicine Provider
Neurosurgery
Iahn Cajigas Gonzalez, MD, PhD
4.9
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About me

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

An MD-PhD graduate of the joint Harvard-MIT program in health sciences and technology, Dr. Iahn Cajigas completed a residency in neurological surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital followed by a postgraduate fellowship in epilepsy, functional and stereotactic neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Cajigas’ clinical expertise includes deep brain stimulation, focused ultrasound, and stereotactic radiosurgery for movement disorders, the surgical management of epilepsy, the management of refractory back pain with neuromodulation, and the surgical/radiosurgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

Education and training

  • Medical School: Harvard University
  • Residency: Jackson Health System - Jackson Memorial
  • Fellowship: UCSF Medical Center and Hospital

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
4.9

288 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

June 2025
5.0
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very kind
May 2025
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they care
May 2025
5.0
5.0
i'm alive today thanks to dr. cajigas' incredible expertise.
May 2025
5.0
5.0
dr. cajigas was so informative but kept info at a low key so i could absorb better what he was relaying to me about my condition.

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My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Cajigas Gonzalez is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

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, 104(7_Supplement_1): 2025,5314

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: 2025,108710

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: 2025,108860

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: 2024,108082

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): 2024,56

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): 2024,214

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: 2024,34

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