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Jeffrey G. Ojemann, MD

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Jeffrey G. Ojemann, MD

Neurosurgery, Hematology-Oncology, Epilepsy

On staff since September 2003

Children's Title: Division Chief of Neurosurgery; Director of Epilepsy Surgery; Co-Director, Epilepsy Program

Academic Title: Professor

Research Center: Center for Integrative Brain Research

Recommendations

HeatherSnoqualmie, WA06.26.12
While I would never want any other family to have an experience that would lead them to Dr. Ojemann, if you find yourself in need of a caring and knowledgeable neuro surgeon, he is the one you want. He took the time to answer all of our questions, big and small. Our daughter's surgery went well and she recovered quickly. He even took the time to stay late so that we would know the results of the post op MRI. We are so thankful to have our daughter in the care of such a great doctor. Thank you doesn't say enough.
HaiBellevue, WA12.29.11
Our 7-year old son is under the care of Dr. Ojemann. He is very professional and friendly to patients and family. Of course technically we believe he is also one of the top doctors in the field. We are very comfotable and confident with Dr. Ojemann's care of our son. We are very grateful to him and Seattle Children's!
BrendaBonney Lake, Washington01.27.11
Our son started having seizures when he was 6 months old. After a MRI showed a small mass in his right front lobe we were introduced to Dr Ojemann to explore surgical options. Dr. Ojemann took his time with us, somehow he makes you feel as if you are his only patient. He answered all of our questions and explained the procedure in a clear easy to understand manner. Dr Ojemann operated on our 3 yr old son in September 2010. We are happy to say the surgery was a great success and recovery for our son was a breeze! We feel so blessed to be touched by such an angel...Thank you, we are forever grateful.
ElyssaSeattle, WA12.13.10
Dr. Ojemann has operated on my son a total of 5 times. (2, 2-part brain surgeries, and one VNS implant). He has ALWAYS taken the time to sit down and explain every proceedure, and the risks and benefits of everything we've done. He has respected our decisions and answered all of our questions with openness and honesty. He is the kind of doctor that treats you like you are the only patient he has when he is with you. The surgeries themselves always went smoothly, and he kept us updated throughout everything. We felt like our son was in very very capable hands throughout his surgeries and recoveries.
Recommend Dr. Jeffrey Ojemann

Overview

Board Certification(s)
Neurological Surgery
Medical/Professional School
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis
Residency
Neurological Surgery, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St Louis
Fellowship
Neurological Surgery, St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis
Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Clinical Interests

Brain Tumors Craniosynostosis Epilepsy Hydrocephalus

Research Focus Area

Neuroscience / Neurodevelopment

Awards and Honors

Award NameAward DescriptionAwarded ByAward Date
U.S. News Top DoctorU.S. News and World Report 2012
Seattle Magazine Top Doctor - 2012Seattle Magazine Top Doctor - 2012Seattle Magazine 2012
Seattle Magazine Top Doctor - 2011Seattle Magazine Top Doctor - 2011Seattle Magazine 2011

Publications

Freehand placement of depth electrodes using electromagnetic frameless stereotactic guidance.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics , 2011 Nov: 464-7
Quasi-periodic fluctuations in default mode network electrophysiology.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 2011 Aug 10: 11728-32
Impact of injury location and severity on posttraumatic epilepsy in the rat: role of frontal neocortex.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) , 2011 Jul: 1574-92
Rapid online language mapping with electrocorticography.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics , 2011 May: 482-90
Reorganization of large-scale physiology in hand motor cortex following hemispheric stroke.
Neurology , 2011 Mar 8: 927-9
Mapping anterior temporal lobe language areas with fMRI: a multicenter normative study.
NeuroImage , 2011 Jan 15: 1465-75
Mapping anterior temporal lobe language areas with fMRI: A multicenter normative study.
NeuroImage , 2010 Sep 25
Acute unilateral enlargement of the parotid gland immediately post craniotomy in a pediatric patient: a case report.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery , 2010 Sep: 1239-42
Impaired maturation of cortical GABA(A) receptor expression in pediatric epilepsy.
Epilepsia , 2010 Aug: 1456-67
DTI fiber tracking to differentiate demyelinating diseases from diffuse brain stem glioma.
NeuroImage , 2010 Aug 1: 217-23
Rhesus macaque as an animal model for posterior fossa syndrome following tumor resection.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2010 Aug: 120-6
MRI changes associated with vigabatrin treatment mimicking tumor progression.
Pediatric blood & cancer , 2010 Jun 8
Functional magnetic resonance imaging for presurgical evaluation of very young pediatric patients with epilepsy.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics , 2010 May: 500-6
Insular epilepsy masquerading as multifocal cortical epilepsy as proven by depth electrode.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics , 2010 Apr: 365-7
Cortical activity during motor execution, motor imagery, and imagery-based online feedback.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2010 Mar 2: 4430-5
Comparing noninvasive dense array and intracranial electroencephalography for localization of seizures.
Neurosurgery , 2010 Feb: 354-62
Power-law scaling in the brain surface electric potential.
PLoS computational biology , 2009 Dec: e1000609
Hemispherotomy: efficacy and analysis of seizure recurrence.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics , 2009 Oct: 323-32
Direct electrophysiological measurement of human default network areas.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2009 Jul 21: 12174-7
Classification of contralateral and ipsilateral finger movements for electrocorticographic brain-computer interfaces.
Neurosurgical focus , 2009 Jul: E12
Robust, long-term control of an electrocorticographic brain-computer interface with fixed parameters.
Neurosurgical focus , 2009 Jul: E13
Ictal localization by invasive recording of infraslow activity with DC-coupled amplifiers.
Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society , 2009 Jun: 135-44
Category-specific recognition and naming deficits following resection of a right anterior temporal lobe tumor in a patient with atypical language lateralization.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior , 2009 May: 630-40
Uniquely hominid features of adult human astrocytes.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 2009 Mar 11: 3276-87
Uniquely hominid features of adult human astrocytes.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 2009 Mar 11: 3276-87
Nonlinear phase-phase cross-frequency coupling mediates communication between distant sites in human neocortex.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 2009 Jan 14: 426-35
Nonlinear phase-phase cross-frequency coupling mediates communication between distant sites in human neocortex.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 2009 Jan 14: 426-35
Is postoperative CT scanning predictive of subdural electrode placement complications in pediatric epileptic patients?
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2009: 345-9
Detection of spontaneous class-specific visual stimuli with high temporal accuracy in human electrocorticography.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference , 2009: 6465-8
Real-time detection of event-related brain activity.
NeuroImage , 2008 Nov 1: 245-9
GABA(A) receptor properties in catastrophic infantile epilepsy.
Epilepsy research , 2008 Oct: 188-97
Localization of extratemporal seizure with noninvasive dense-array EEG. Comparison with intracranial recordings.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2008: 474-9
Localization and classification of phonemes using high spatial resolution electrocorticography (ECoG) grids.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference , 2008: 4964-7
Three cases of feature correlation in an electrocorticographic BCI.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference , 2008: 5318-21
Electrocorticographic spectral changes associated with ipsilateral individual finger and whole hand movement.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference , 2008: 5939-42
Localization of extratemporal seizure with noninvasive dense-array EEG. Comparison with intracranial recordings.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2008: 474-9
Localization and classification of phonemes using high spatial resolution electrocorticography (ECoG) grids.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference , 2008: 4964-7
Three cases of feature correlation in an electrocorticographic BCI.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference , 2008: 5318-21
Electrocorticographic spectral changes associated with ipsilateral individual finger and whole hand movement.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference , 2008: 5939-42
Apnea caused by mesial temporal lobe mass lesions in infants: report of 3 cases.
Journal of child neurology , 2007 Sep: 1079-83
Real-time functional brain mapping using electrocorticography.
NeuroImage , 2007 Aug 15: 504-7
Vagus nerve stimulation in children with mitochondrial electron transport chain deficiencies.
Mitochondrion , 2007 Jul: 279-83
Cortical electrode localization from X-rays and simple mapping for electrocorticographic research: The "Location on Cortex" (LOC) package for MATLAB.
Journal of neuroscience methods , 2007 May 15: 303-8
Outcome following surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal involvement in preadolescent children: emphasis on mesial temporal sclerosis.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2007 Mar: 205-10
Spectral changes in cortical surface potentials during motor movement.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 2007 Feb 28: 2424-32
Changing frontal contributions to memory before and after medial temporal lobectomy.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) , 2007 Feb: 443-56
Dexmedetomidine sedation during awake craniotomy for seizure resection: effects on electrocorticography.
Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology , 2007 Jan: 38-44
Task-related principal component analysis: formalism and illustration.
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference , 2007: 5469-72
Vagus nerve stimulation for intractable seizures in children.
Pediatric neurology , 2006 Nov: 323-6
Complications of invasive subdural electrode monitoring at St. Louis Children's Hospital, 1994-2005.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2006 Nov: 343-7
Structured cueing on a semantic fluency task differentiates patients with temporal versus frontal lobe seizure onset.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B , 2006 Sep: 339-44
The emerging world of motor neuroprosthetics: a neurosurgical perspective.
Neurosurgery , 2006 Jul: 1-14; discussion 1-14
Electrocorticography-based brain computer interface--the Seattle experience.
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society , 2006 Jun: 194-8
Use of dexmedetomidine in awake craniotomy in adolescents: report of two cases.
Paediatric anaesthesia , 2006 Mar: 338-42
Primary hypothyroidism in a 12-year-old girl with a suprasellar pituitary mass: rapid regression after thyroid replacement therapy: case report.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2005 May: 413-6
Hand somatosensory cortex activity following selective dorsal rhizotomy: report of three cases with fMRI.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery , 2005 Feb: 115-21
Distance of the motor cortex from the coronal suture as a function of age.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2004 Sep-Oct: 215-9
Functional reorganization of spatial transformations after a parietal lesion.
Neurology , 2004 Jul 27: 287-92
A brain-computer interface using electrocorticographic signals in humans.
Journal of neural engineering , 2004 Jun: 63-71
9p21 and 13q14 dosages in ependymomas. A clinicopathologic study of 101 cases.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc , 2004 Jan: 9-14
A procedure for identifying regions preferentially activated by attention to semantic and phonological relations using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Neuropsychologia , 2003: 293-303
Selective disturbance of mental rotation by cortical stimulation.
Neuropsychologia , 2003: 1659-67
Intrathecal baclofen withdrawal: a case report and review of the literature.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery , 2002 Oct: 522-5
The frontal lobe role in memory: a review of convergent evidence and implications for the Wada memory test.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B , 2002 Aug: 309-315
Cortical stimulation mapping of language cortex by using a verb generation task: effects of learning and comparison to mapping based on object naming.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2002 Jul: 33-8
Pediatric sylvian fissure meningioma.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2002 May: 275-6
Intracranial infantile myofibromatosis with intraparenchymal involvement.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2002 Apr: 214-7
Gliomatosis cerebri.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2002 Feb: 111-2
Frameless stereotaxy without rigid pin fixation during awake craniotomies.
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery , 2002: 256-61

Primary Office

Seattle Children's
OA.9.220 - Neurosurgery
4800 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-987-2544

Additional Offices

Harborview Medical Center
HMC Box 359766 - Neurological Surgery
325 - 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2499
206-744-3576

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