Curriculum
Vitae
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor: Neurological Surgery: Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
Clinical Instructor: Neurological Surgery: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
PUBLICATIONS
Ohiorhenuan IE, Godzik J, Uribe JS. Single-Position Surgery: Prone Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: 2- Dimensional Operative Video. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2021 Apr 15;20(5):E369. doi: 10.1093/ons/opaa478. PMID: 33503653
Morgan CD, Walker CT, Godzik J, Ohiorhenuan IE, Catapano JS, Hemphill C, Uribe JS. When Indirect Decompression Fails: A Review of 220 Consecutive Direct Lateral Interbody Fusions and Unplanned Secondary Decompression. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2021 Feb 3. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000003976. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33534521
Ohiorhenuan IE, Martirosyan NL, Wewel JT, Sagar S, Uribe JS. Lateral Interbody Fusion at L4/5: Management of the Transitional Psoas. World Neurosurg. 2021 Apr;148:e192-e196. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.12.105. Epub 2020 Dec 29. PMID: 33385599
Godzik J, Ohiorhenuan IE, Xu DS, de Andrada Pereira B, Walker CT, Whiting AC, Turner JD, Uribe JS.Single- position prone lateral approach: cadaveric feasibility study and early clinical experience. Neurosurg Focus. 2020 Sep;49(3):E15. doi: 10.3171/2020.6.FOCUS20359. PMID: 32871564
Ohiorhenuan IE, Uribe JS. Commentary: Artificial Neural Networks to Assess Virtual Reality Anterior Cervical Discectomy Performance. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2019 Dec 30.
Ohiorhenuan IE, Deviren V, Uribe JS. MIS lateral ACR for spinal deformity correction: technique and complication avoidance. Neurosurgical Focus: Video. 2020 Jan.
Bakhsheshian J, Sizdahkani S, Ohiorhenuan IE, Pham MH. Freehand transpedicular lag screw placement in traumatic spondylolisthesis of C2: case report and systematic review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2019
Ohiorhenuan IE, Kramer DR, Kellis S, Nune G, Liu CY, Lee B. The surface Laplacian for seizure localization and coherence in electrocorticography. Submitted.
Barkoh K, Ohiorhenuan IE, Lee L, Lucas JW, Arakelyan A, Ornelas C, Buser Z, Hsieh P, Acosta F, Liu J, Wang JC, Hah R. The DOWN questionnaire: a novel screening tool for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Global Spine Journal. 2018
Fredrickson VL, Patel A, Pham MH, Strickland BA, Ohiorhenuan I, Chen T. “Spine surgery complicated by an engorged lumbar epidural venous plexus from cerebral spinal fluid over-shunting: a case report and review of the literature.” World Neurosurg. 2017 Dec 14. PMID: 29248773
Ohiorhenuan IE, Fredrickson VL, Liker M. Deep Brain Connectomics, Textbook of NeuroPhotonics and Brain Mapping. 2017.
Pham MH, Ohiorhenuan IE, Patel NN, Jakoi AM, Hsieh PC, Acosta FL, Wang JC, Liu JC. “A portable shoulder-mounted camera system for surgical education in spine surgery.” Surg Technol Int. 2017 Feb.
Fujii, T, Kramer DR, Ohiorhenuan IE, Liu CY. “Interplay between cortical spreading depolarization and seizures.” Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. 2017.
Kramer DR, Fujii T, Ohiorhenuan I, Liu CY. “Cortical spreading depolarization: Pathophysiology, implications and future directions.” J Clin Neurosci. 2016 Feb.
Kramer DR, Winer JL, Robison RA, Ohiorhenuan IE, Minnetti M, Giannotta S, Zada G. "Cerebrospinal fluid reconstitution via a perfusion-based cadaveric model: Feasibility study demonstrating surgical simulation of neuro-endoscopic procedures." Journal of Neurosurgery. 2015 Nov.
Ohiorhenuan IE, Mechler F, Purpura KP, Schmid AM, Hu Q, Victor JD. “Cannabinoid neuromodulation in the adult primary visual cortex.” PLoS One. 2014 Feb.
Ohiorhenuan I, Zada G. “Neural prosthesis for recovery of impaired cognitive function: bridging the gap between concept and reality”. World Neurosurgery. 2013 Jan 28.
Mechler F, Victor JD, Ohiorhenuan I, Schmid AM, Hu Q. “Three-dimensional localization of neurons in cortical tetrode recordings”. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2011 Aug.
Ohiorhenuan IE, Victor JD. “Information-geometric measure of 3-neuron firing patterns characterizes scale- dependence in cortical networks”. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 2011 Feb.
Ohiorhenuan IE, Mechler F, Purpura KP, Schmid AS, Hu Q & Victor JD. “Sparse coding and high-order correlations in fine-scale cortical networks”. Nature. 2010 Jul.
Victor JD, Mechler F, Ohiorhenuan I, Schmid AM, Purpura KP. “Laminar and orientation-dependent characteristics of spatial nonlinearities: implications for the computational architecture of visual cortex.” J Neurophysiol. 2009 Dec.
Schmid AM, Purpura KP, Ohiorhenuan IE, Mechler F, Victor JD. “Subpopulations of neurons in visual area v2 perform differentiation and integration operations in space and time.” Front Syst Neurosci. 2009 Nov.
Dhadialla PS, Ohiorhenuan IE, Cohen A, Strickland S. “Maximum-entropy network analysis reveals a role for tumor necrosis factor in peripheral nerve development and function.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jul.
Mechler F, Ohiorhenuan I, Victor JD. “Speed dependence of tuning, discrimination and coding of one- dimensional features in V1.” J. Neurophysiology. 2007 Mar.
GRANT AWARDS
NEI F31 National Research Service Award 1F31EY019454-01, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Multi-neuron processing of naturalistic stimuli
NEI Vision Training Grant Award, Weill Medical College of Cornell University Awardee: Ifije Ohiorhenuan. Frequency domain time series analysis of dynamic and correlated activity of neural networks
NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Scholarship, Weill Medical College of Cornell
PATENTS
Virtual Retina Prosthetic: A retinal prosthetic device capable of restoring natural vision to blind patients based on a computational method for retinal processing. Filed with Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization in November, 2010. Pending. Application #: 61/378,793.
EDUCATION
Columbia University: BA Biochemistry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University: MD
Weill Graduate School of Cornell University: PhD
POST-GRADUATE TRAINING
Internship: Neurological Surgery: USC Department of Neurosurgery, LAC+USC Hospital
Residency: Neurological Surgery: USC Department of Neurosurgery, LAC+USC Hospital
Fellowship: Minimally Invasive and Complex Spine: Neurological Surgery: Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, Biomedical Fellow, Jonathan Victor Laboratory. Studied natural scene processing in the primate early visual cortex using multi-tetrode recording. Performed information theoretic and statistical mechanics analyses of correlations between multiple neurons.
Laboratory of experimental condensed matter physics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY: June 2005 – August 2005. MD/PhD Research Rotation, Libchaber Laboratory.
Assisted in developing an artificial “minimal” cell to study the dynamics of the earliest living systems.
Laboratory of neurogenetics and behavior, Rockefeller University, New York NY: June 2004 – August 2004
MD/PhD Research Rotation, Leslie Vosshall Laboratory.
Optimized an in vivo imaging system to visualize neural activity in fly larva in response to olfactory stimuli using a genetically encoded calcium-sensitive indicator.
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY June 2003 – October 2004. MD/PhD Research Rotation, Jonathan Victor Laboratory. Modeled neuronal responses of the primate primary visual cortex to line and edge stimuli.
Department of Neurobiology, Columba University, New York, NY: May 1999 – May 2001
Undergraduate Independent Research, Eduardo Macagno Laboratory. Investigated the role of netrin and its receptors in axonal guidance and arborization in the developing leech nervous system.
AWARDS AND HONORS
American Board of Neurological Surgeons, Diplomate. 2023.
Global Spine Journal, Editor, 2025.
Michael J. Apuzzo Award for Best Scientific Paper, University of Southern California, 2012
Innocentive Challenge: Model the Functional Networks in a Cancer Cell, 2012
Innocentive Challenge: Computational Analysis of Gene Microarray Data, 2009
Innocentive Challenge: Bioinformatic Analysis of Gene Expression Data, 2008
Columba University Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 1999
Columba University Dean’s List,1998 – 2001
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
NASS (2016 – Present)
AANS (2009 – Present)
CNS (2012 – Present)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Kansas Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate student research mentor, Resident research mentor.
Weill Cornell Medical College, Brain & Mind, Journal Club Tutor; MD/PhD program Gateways to the Laboratory, Health Professionals Recruitment and Exposure Program.