Curriculum Vitae
IFIJE E. OHIORHENUAN
EDUCATION
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE, PHOENIX, AZ
Minimally-invasive and Complex Spine Fellowship, 2019-2020
KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, CA
Neurological Surgery Residency Program, 2012-2019
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE NEW YORK, NY
Tri-Institutional Medical Scientist Training Program
Doctor of Medicine, May 2012
Doctor of Philosophy, May 2012
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, COLUMBIA COLLEGE, New York, NY
Bachelor of Arts, May 2001. Major: Biochemistry
AWARDS & HONORS
Innocentive Challenge: Model the Functional Networks in a Cancer Cell 2012
Innocentive Challenge: Computational Analysis of Gene Microarray Data 2009
Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award 2008
Innocentive Challenge: Bioinformatic Analysis of Gene Expression Data 2008
National Eye Institute Vision Training Fellowship 2006-2008
National Institutes of Health Medical Scientist Training Program Scholarship 2003-2012
Columbia University Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 1999
Columbia University Dean’s List 1998-2001
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
North American Spine Society 2014
Medical Board of California 2013
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Cerebrovascular Section 2012
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE, WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE, New York, NY September 2005 - 2012
Biomedical Fellow, Thesis Advisor – Jonathan Victor
INNOCENTIVE, Boston, MA June 2008 - April 2012
Solver
LABORATORY OF EXPERIMENTAL CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY, New York, NY June 2005 - August 2005
MD/PhD Research Rotation, Libchaber Laboratory
LABORATORY OF NEUROGENETICS AND BEHAVIOR, ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY, New York, NY June 2004 - August 2004
MD/PhD Research Rotation, Vosshall Laboratory
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE, WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE, New York, NY June 2003 – October 2004 MD/PhD Research Rotation, Victor Laboratory
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROBIOLOGY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY May 1999 –May 2001
Undergraduate Independent Research, Macagno Laboratory
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, New York, NY September 2001 – December 2002
Corporate Finance Analyst, Investment Banking Division, Technology Media & Telecom
MERCK & CO, Rahway, NJ May 2000 – September 2000
Intern, Medicinal Chemistry Department, Merck Research Labs
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE , New York, NY September 2007 – December 2007
Second Year Medical Student Course: Brain & Mind, Journal Club Tutor
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE , New York, NY September 2006 – December 2006
Second Year Medical Student Course: Brain & Mind, Journal Club Tutor
MD/PHD PROGRAM, WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE, New York, NY July 2004 – September 2004
Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program, Big Sib
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE , New York, NY January 2004 – April 2004
Health Professionals Recruitment and Exposure Program, Mentor
PUBLICATIONS
Fujii, T, Kramer DR, Ohiorhenuan IE, Liu CY. Interplay between cortical spreading depolarization and seizures. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Submitted.
Kramer DR, Fujii T, Ohiorhenuan I, Liu CY. Cortical spreading depolarization: Pathophysiology, implications and future directions., J Clin Neurosci. 2015
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. Submitted Jan 2014
Ohiorhenuan IE , Mechler F, Purpura KP, Schmid AM, Hu Q, Victor JD. “Cannabinoid neuromodulation in the adult primary visual cortex.” PLoS One. 2014 Feb 19;9(2):e87362
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; 106(2):828-48
Ohiorhenuan IE, Mechler F, Purpura KP, Schmid AS, Hu Q & Victor JD. “Sparse coding and high-order correlations in fine-scale cortical networks”. Nature. Jul 29;466(7306):617-21.
Ohiorhenuan IE, Victor JD. “Information-geometric measure of 3-neuron firing patterns characterizes scale-dependence in cortical networks”. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 2011 Feb;30(1):125-41.
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 28;106(30).
Mechler F, Ohiorhenuan I, Victor JD. “Speed dependence of tuning, discrimination and coding of one-dimensional features in
V1.” J. Neurophysiology. 97(3):2423-38. 2007
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;3:15. Epub 2009 Nov 4.
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;102(6):3414-32. Epub 2009 Oct 7.
ABSTRACTS/POSTERS
Ohiorhenuan IE, Fishback D, Lucas J , Kramer DR , Hansen C, Gonzalez A, Friedman R, Giannotta S. The Middle Fossa Approach for acoustic neuroma produces acceptable quality metrics without evidence of temporal lobe complications. AANS 2016. Submitted.
Pham M, Tuchman A, Ohiorhenuan I, Acosta F. Evaluation of Proximal Junctional Kyphosis in Adult Spinal Deformity Following Different Pedicle and Hook Constructs at the Upper Instrumented Vertebrae. SRS 2016. Submitted.
Winer JL, Robison RA, Kramer DR, Ohiorhenuan IE, Giannotta S. “Google glass – a view into the future of neurosurgery.” AANS 2014.
Victor JD, Mechler F, Schmid AM, Ohiorhenuan I, and Purpura KP. “Receptive field maps depend on high order stimulus structure: evidence for nonlinear feedback.” COSYNE 2009
Ohiorhenuan IE, and Victor JD. “Maximum entropy modeling Of multi-neuron firing patterns in V1.” COSYNE 2007
Ohiorhenuan IE, and Victor JD. “Maximum-entropy analysis of multi-neuron firing patterns in primate V1 reveals stimulus-contingent patterns.” SFN 2007
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.