Jeffrey Ojemann, M.D.
Associate Professor

Dr. Ojemann is an associate professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and an attending neurosurgeon at Seattle Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center.

He received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in 1992. After completing a seven-year residency in Neurosurgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Dr. Ojemann completed two fellowships - one in Pediatric Neurosurgery at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and the other in Epilepsy Surgery at the University of Washington . Dr. Ojemann joined our department in 2003.

Patient Care
Dr. Ojemann's clinical interests include the surgical treatment of epilepsy and tumors near eloquent cortex.

"I strive to empower patients and families with diseases of the central nervous system to make the difficult decisons before them.." - Dr. Jeff Ojemann

Neurosurgery at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center.

For more information about Dr. Ojemann's Pediatric Clinical Specialties, please link to his webpage at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center section.

Research
Dr. Ojemann's research interests include an NIH funded study examining memory fMRI changes with epilepsy surgery and studies looking at the role of flumazenil PET in the pre-surgical evaluation of seizures. His research also includes studies of electrical brain signals in memory and language and higher cognitive deficits in neurosurgical patients.

Education and Training
1992, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

1993-1999, Resident in Neurosurgery Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

1999, Fellow in Pediatric Neurosurgery, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

1999-2000, Fellow in Epilepsy Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA.

Honors and Awards
Member, East African Neurosurgical Mission, May 2000, group recipient of Distinguished Service Award, Young Neurosurgeon Committee, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, April 2001.

American Heart Association Medical Student Research Fellowship, 1990-91.

CIBA-GEIGY Foundation Community Service Award, 1989.

Distinguished Student Scholar, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Medical school scholarship, 1987-91.
 

Research Grants (since 2000)
“Flumazenil PET and Decision Making in the Surgical Management of Non-lesional Epilepsy”, Charles A. Dana Foundation, Principal Investigator, 7/00-6/04
 
“Frontal and Medial Temporal Lobe Contributions to Memory”, National Institute of Health, Principal Investigator, 1K23-NS41272, 6/01-5/06
 
 “Cortical stimulation mapping and functional MRI of language”, McDonnell Center for Higher Brain Function, Principal Investigator, 7/01-6/03

Selected Publications
Baciu MV, Watson JM, McDermott KB, Wetzel RD, Attarian H, Moran CJ, Ojemann JG: FMRI reveals an inter-hemispheric dissociation of frontal and temporal language regions in a patient with focal epilepsy.Epilepsy & Behavior4:776-780, 2003.
 
Zacks JM, Gilliam FG, Ojemann JG: Selective disturbance of mental rotation by cortical stimulation. Neuropsychologia 41:1659-1667, 2003. PubMed abstract
 
O’Brien D, Taylor M, Park TS, and Ojemann JG: A critical analysis of ‘normal’ radionucleotide shuntograms in patients subsequently requiring surgery. Child’s Nervous System 19:337-341, 2003. PubMed abstract
 
McDermott KB, Petersen SE, Watson JM, and Ojemann JG: A procedure for identifying regions preferentially activated by attention to semantic and phonological relations using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuropsychologia 41:293-303, 2003. PubMed abstract
 
Ojemann JG. Surgical treatment of pediatric epilepsy. Seminars in Neurosurgery 13:71-80, 2002.
 
Ojemann JG and Kelley WM. The frontal lobe role in memory: a review of convergent evidence and implications for the Wada memory test. Epilepsy & Behavior 3:9-15, 2002. PubMed abstract
 
Ojemann JG, Ojemann GA, and Lettich E: Cortical stimulation mapping of language cortex using a verb generation task: Effects of learning and comparison to object naming maps. J Neurosurg 97:33-38, 2002. PubMed abstract
 
Kaplan SS, Ojemann JG, Grange DK, Fuller C, and Park TS: Intracranial infantile myofibromatosis with intraparenchymal involvement. Case report. Pediatr Neurosurg 36: 214-217, 2002. PubMed abstract  
 
Rosen HJ, Ojemann JG, Ollinger JM, and Petersen SE: Comparison of brain activation during word retrieval done silently and aloud using fMRI. Brain and Cognition 42:201-217, 2000. PubMed abstract
 
Ojemann JG, Buckner RL, Corbetta M, and Raichle ME: Imaging studies of memory and attention. Neurosurgery Clin N Amer 8:307-319, 1997. PubMed abstract
 
Ojemann JG, Miller JW and Silbergeld DL: Preserved function in tumor invading cortex. Neurosurgery 39:253-259, 1996.
 
Ojemann JG and Silbergeld DL: Cortical stimulation of phantom limb Rolandic cortex. J Neurosurg 82:641-644, 1995. PubMed abstract
 
Buckner RL, Petersen SE, Ojemann JG, Miezin FM, Squire LR, and Raichle ME: Functional anatomical studies of explicit and implicit memory retrieval tasks.J Neurosci 15:12-29, 1995. PubMed abstract
 
Squire LR, Ojemann JG, Miezin FM, Petersen SE, Videen TO, and Raichle ME: Activation of the hippocampus in normal humans: A functional anatomical study of memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89:1837-1841, 1992. PubMed abstract
 
Ojemann GA, Ojemann JG, Lettich E, and Berger M: Cortical language localization in left, dominant hemisphere. J Neurosurg 71:316-326, 1989. PubMed abstract