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Neurosurgery
Iahn Cajigas Gonzalez, MD, PhD
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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

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4.9

280 reviews

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May 2025
5.0
5.0
they care
April 2025
4.0
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we didn't receive an answer/diagnosis to solve the pain issue
April 2025
5.0
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everything with his practice has gone well for me
April 2025
5.0
5.0
highly recommend

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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

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

Youngerman BE, Banu MA, Khan F, McKhann GM, Schevon CA, Jagid JR, Cajigas I, Theodotou CB, Ko A, Buckley R, Ojemann JG, Miller JW, Laxton AW, Couture DE, Popli GS, Buch VP, Halpern CH, Le S, Sharan AD, Sperling MR, Mehta AD, Englot DJ, Neimat JS, Konrad PE, Sheth SA, Neal EG, Vale FL, Holloway KL, Air EL, Schwalb JM, D'Haese PF, Wu C. Long-term outcomes of mesial temporal laser interstitial thermal therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy and subsequent surgery for seizure recurrence: a multi-centre cohort study , J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 94(11): 2023,879-886

Bernabei JM, Litt B, Cajigas I. Editorial: Thalamic stereo-EEG in epilepsy surgery: where do we stand? , Brain, 146(7): 2023,2663-2665

Cajigas I, Morrison MA, San Luciano M, Starr P. Cerebellar Deep Brain Stimulation in Cerebral Palsy: Promising Early Results and a Look Forward to a Larger Clinical Trial , World Neurosurg, 174: 2023,223-224

Severini, Giacomo, Koenig, Alexander, Cajigas, Iahn, Lesniewski-Laas, Nicholas, Niemi, Jim, Bonato, Paolo Subsensory stochastic electrical stimulation targeting muscle afferents alters gait control during locomotor adaptations to haptic perturbations , iScience, 26(7): 2023,107038

Cajigas I, Morrison MA, Luciano MS, Starr PA. Cerebellar deep brain stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders in cerebral palsy , J Neurosurg, 139(3): 2023,605-614

Iahn Cajigas*†, Kevin C. Davis*†, Noeline W. Prins3, Sebastian Gallo, Jasim A. Naeem, Letitia Fisher, Michael E. Ivan, Abhishek Prasad, and Jonathan R. Jagid Brain-Computer interface control of stepping from invasive electrocorticography upper-limb motor imagery in a patient with quadriplegia , Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16: 2023,1077416

Elarjani T, Basil GW, Cajigas I, Lu VM, Chin CN, Alonzo A, Vallejo FA, Sparger C, Alonzo G, Levi AD. Social Media Presence Across US Neurosurgical Residency Programs and Sub-specialties , World Neurosurg, 168: 2022,e43-e49

Gunnarsdottir KM, Li A, Smith RJ, Kang JY, Korzeniewska A, Crone NE, Rouse AG, Cheng JJ, Kinsman MJ, Landazuri P, Uysal U, Ulloa CM, Cameron N, Cajigas I, Jagid J, Kanner A, Elarjani T, Bicchi MM, Inati S, Zaghloul KA, Boerwinkle VL, Wyckoff S, Barot N, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Sarma SV. Source-sink connectivity: a novel interictal EEG marker for seizure localization , Brain, 145(11): 2022,3901-3915

Lee AT, Nichols NM, Speidel BA, Fan JM, Cajigas I, Knowlton RC, Chang EF. Modern intracranial electroencephalography for epilepsy localization with combined subdural grid and depth electrodes with low and improved hemorrhagic complication rates , J Neurosurg, 138(3): 2022,821-827

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