Dr Santiago Ortega earned his MD at University of Alcala in Madrid Spain, did his Internal Medicine and Neurology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and completed a Neurocritical care and Stroke Fellowship at Columbia University in New York.  During this time, he was awarded with the 2012 institutional NIH-funded SPOTRIAS fellowship from the stroke department at Columbia University. Dr Ortega also completed an Endovascular Neurosurgery fellowship at Mount Sinai in New York.  In 2014 he came to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Department of Neurology, he was named UIHC’s Director of Neuro Interventional Surgery in Neurology in 2015 and the Neuroendovascular Surgical Neuroradiology Associate Fellowship Director in 2016. His research interest includes cerebral autoregulation and hemodynamics, neuroimaging as a selection tool and developing novel endovascular approaches and devices to treat cerebrovascular ischemic and hemorrhagic disease. Currently Dr. Ortega is the Director of the Neurointerventional research laboratory at the University of Iowa, which is funded by industry, institutional, societal and CTSA grants. . He is serves as a BOD for the Vascular and Interventional Neurology, and as the Vice-Chair for MT2020+.