About Dr. Ospina
Education
Undergraduate: University of California, Irvine, CA
Medical School:
University of California, (Ph.D.), Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Irvine, CA
University of California College of Medicine, (M.D.), Irvine, CA
Internship (Internal Medicine): UCLA-Greater LA VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Residency (Diagnostic Radiology): Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Fellowship (Neuroradiology): University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA
Certifications
American Board of Radiology (2010)
Professional Memberships
American College of Radiology
Radiological Society of North America
American Roentgen Ray Society
American Society of Neuroradiology
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Sigma Xi Research Honor Society
American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
American Physiological Society
Publications
Ospina JA, Hasso An. Vascular anomalies and vascular tumors of the head and neck. Chapter 8 in: MRI of the Head and Neck with CT Correlations. To be published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. 2011.
Ospina JA, Maya MM, Moser FG, Schievink W. Percutaneous transforamen fibrin glue injection for spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak. In preparation. 2011.
Ospina JA, Brevig HN, Krause Dn, Duckles Sp. Estrogen suppresses IL-1B-mediatedinduction of COX-2 pathway in rat cerebral blood vessels. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2004; 286:H2010-H2019.
Ospina JA. Estrogen regulation of prostanoid pathways in the cerebral circulation. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2003. UMI Dissertation Services. No. 3082056.
Ospina JA, Duckles SP, Krause DN. 17B-estradiol decreases vascular tone in cerebral arteries by shifting production from vasoconstrictor to vasodilator prostaglandins. AM J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2003; 281:H241-H250.
Krause DN, Geary GG, McNeill Am, Ospina JA, Duckles SP. Impact of hormones on the regulation of cerebral vascular tone. In Tomita M, Kanno I, Hamel E, eds Brain Activation and CBF Control. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 2002; 1235:395-399.
Ospina JA, Krause DN, Duckles SP. 17B-estradiol increases rat cerebrovascular protacyclin synthesis by elevating cyclooxygenase-1 and prostacyclin synthase. Stroke. 2002;33:600-605.
Geary GG, McNeill AM, Ospina JA, Krause Dn, Korach KS, Duckles SP. Cerebrovascular nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase are unaffected by estrogen in mice lacking estrogen receptor alpha. J Appl Physiol. 2001;91:2391-2399.
Ospina JA, Broide RS, Acecedo D, Robertson RT, Leslie FM. Calcium regulation of agonist binding to a-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in adults and fetal rat hippocampus. J Neurochem. 1998;70:1061-1068.
