David Fernando Antezana, M.D.

Professional

Hospital Privileges

• Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (PSVMC) 11/2002 to present
• Providence Portland Medical Center (PPMC)
• Legacy Emmanuel Hospital (LEH)
• Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital (LGSH)
• Johns Hopkins University Hospital (JHH) 7/2000 to 6/2002

Licensure and Board Certification

• State of Oregon (MD24021)
• State of Maryland (D0053465)
• Controlled Dangerous Substances (M45422)
• DEA Certification (BA7748936)
• National Board of Medical Examiners – 2/1998
• American Board of Neurological Surgery, written examination – 3/1999

Education

Certifications

• Charite Lumbar Artificial Disk Course, Cincinnati, OH 1/2005
• Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery Course, 5/2003
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Kyphoplasty Course, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA 2003

Memberships

• Oregon Medical Association
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• Bolivian American Medical Society, Northwest coordinator

Honors

• Harvey Cushing Hunterian Research Award 2000
• Tau Beta Pi, Honorary Engineering Society 1989
• Roy Bode Memorial Award of Catholic University 1989
• Sigma Xi Research Society 1989
• Exceptional Summer Student Award of NINDS/NIH 1989 & 1990

Continuing Medical Education (LAST 2 YEARS)

• Bolivian American Medical Society Annual Meeting 2/2005 - Cochabamba, Bolivia
• Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting 9/2004 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Languages:

Fluent in Spanish

Military

• United States Army Reserve, Medical Corps 1996 to Present
• Captain

Abstracts:

• Guerin, C., D. Antezana, D. Rigamonti and R. Tamargo. Treatment decisions in subgroups of posterior circulation aneurysms. Congress of Neurosurgical Surgeons Meeting, New Orleans, September 1997.
• Antezana, D., Jung-Il Lee, Patrick M. Dougherty, Fred A. Lenz. Responses of neurons in the region of human thalamic principal somatic sensory nucleus to mechanical and thermal stimuli graded into the painful region. International Association for the Study of Pain, 9th World Congress on Pain, Vienna, Austria, August 1999.
• Antezana, D., James Frazier, Nabil J. Alayed, Stephanie J. Murphy, John D. Davis, Patricia Hurn, Richard J. Traystman, Rafael Tamargo. Reduction of infarction volume by ibuprofen in rats is flow independent. Joint Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery and American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiologists, New Orleans, LA, February 2000.
• Antezana, D., John D. Davis, Patricia D. Hurn, Richard J. Traystman, Rafael J. Tamargo. Ibuprofen reduces caudate/putamen ischemic injury in rats. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, April 2000.
• Antezana, D., Richard E. Clatterbuck, Nabil J. Alayed, Stephanie J. Murphy, James Frazier, Patricia Hurn, Richard J. Traystman, Rafael Tamargo. High-dose ibuprofen is equivalent to mild hypothermia for the reduction of caudate/putamen infarct volume in rats. Joint Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery and American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiologists, Waikoloa, Hawaii, February, 2001.
• Antezana, D., Richard E. Clatterbuck, Nabil J. Alayed, Stephanie J. Murphy, James Frazier, Patricia Hurn, Richard J. Traystman, Rafael Tamargo. Ibuprofen reduces ICAM-1 _expression and caudate/putamen infarct in rats. Joint Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery and American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiologists, Waikoloa, Hawaii, February, 2001.
• Antezana, D., Ricardo Gonzalez, Michael B. Shapiro, Jen-Yi Chang, John P. Kostuik. Pulmonary embolism following major spinal deformity corrective surgery in adults. International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2002.
• Antezana, D., Ricardo Gonzalez, Jen-Yi Chang, John P. Kostuik. Mortality following major spinal deformity corrective surgery in adults. International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2002.
• Davis, Randy F., Arthur W. Poetscher, David F. Antezana, John Yingling, John Awad, Michael Schlosser, Donlin M. Long. Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with premier plate: report of 45 patients. European Cervical Spine Research Society Meeting, Paris, France, June 2002.
• Antezana, D., Ricardo Gonzalez, Michael B. Shapiro, Jen-Yi Chang, John P. Kostuik. Pulmonary embolism following major spinal deformity corrective surgery in adults. Scoliosis Research Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 2002.
• Antezana, D., Ricardo Gonzalez, Jen-Yi Chang, John P. Kostuik. Mortality following major spinal deformity corrective surgery in adults. Scoliosis Research Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 2002.
• Antezana, D., Ricardo Gonzalez, Michael B. Shapiro, Jen-Yi Chang, John P. Kostuik. Pulmonary embolism following major spinal deformity corrective surgery in adults. North American Spine Society Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October, 2002.
• Antezana, D., Ricardo Gonzalez, Jen-Yi Chang, John P. Kostuik. Mortality following major spinal deformity corrective surgery in adults. North American Spine Society Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October, 2002.
• Antezana, D., Adelantos en Neurocirugia (Advances in Neurosurgery). Bolivian-American Medical Society Annual Meeting, Cochabamba, Bolivia, February 2005.

Publications

• Lee, J.-I., P. M. Dougherty, D. Antezana and F. A. Lenz. Responses of neurons in the region of human thalamic principal somatic sensory nucleus to mechanical and thermal stimuli graded into the painful region. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 410(4): 541-55, 1999.
• Antezana, D., R. E. Clatterbuck, N. J. Alayed, S. J. Murphy, L. G. Anderson, J. Frazier, P. D. Hurn, R. J. Traystman, R. J. Tamargo. High-dose ibuprofen reduces striatal infarcts in rats. Journal of Neurosurgery.
• Gonzales, R. A.; D. F. Antezana; David B. Cohen; Jen-Yi Chang; Ann Sieber; John P. Kostuik. Pulmonary embolism after corrective surgery for adult spinal deformity. Submitted to Spine.
• Gonzales, R. A.; D. F. Antezana; David B. Cohen; Jen-Yi Chang; Ann Sieber; John P. Kostuik. Mortality after corrective surgery for adult spinal deformity. Submitted to Spine.

Lectures

• Surgical Management of Spinal Metastasis, Tumor Board, LGSH 5/2005
• Nursing spinal considerations in the ICU, PPMC 2003
• Lumbar Puncture, JHH Neurosurgery Grand Rounds 2000
• Cervical Spine Fractures, JHH Neurosurgery Grand Rounds 1999
• Seizure Surgery, JHH Neurosurgery Grand Rounds 1999
• Cushing’s disease, JHH Neurosurgery Grand Rounds 1998
• Cerebral aneurysms, JHH Nursing Neurocritical Care Course 1998

Volunteer

• St. Anselm’s Abbey Alumni Board
• CARE, University of Minnesota
• Tutor, University of Minnesota
• Tutor, Catholic University of America
• President, Biology Club of Catholic University
• Vice-President, American Association of Mechanical Engineers, Catholic University