JAMAICA HOSPITAL, NEW YORK 1992-1994 FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY
PONTIFICAL XAVERIAN UNIVERSITY MD 1982-1998 MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2/2003-4/2003 BIOSTATISTICS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
1/1996-4/1996 BASIC AND CLINICAL
NEUROSCIENCES
THE BOWMAN GRAY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 2/1996 EPILEPSY Minifellow COURSE
MEDICAL LICENSE: Licensed in Florida and Georgia
BOARD CERTIFICATION:
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: Neurology
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: Clinical Neurophysiology
CLINICAL AND HOSPITAL RESPONSABILITIES
- Epilepsy Clinic, UF Neuroscience Institute at Shands Jacksonville 1998- 2009
- Director EEG Lab/Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
UF Neuroscience Institute at Shands Jacksonville 1998-2009
ACADEMIC AND HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS:
Program Director, Virtual EEG Fellowship. University of South Florida, USF Health, 2009
Courtesy Staff: Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, 1998- up to date
Consulting Staff: Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital, Jacksonville 1998- up to date
Assistant Professor of Neurology, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 1998-2009
Staff Neurologist, Camden Medical Center, St. Mary’s GA 1998-2009
Staff Neurologist, UF & Shands Jacksonville Medical Center, 1998-2009
HONORS:
- Exemplary Teacher Award. University of Florida. 2003,2005,2007 and 2008
- Invited to present “Web base teaching implementation in Neurology”
American Academy of Neurology Meeting, Chicago 2008 April 2008
- University of Florida COMECT grant:
Learning Style in Medical students and neurology residents. 2007
- UF Dean’s Grant
Electrolyte Therapy for Refractory Absence Epilepsy in WAJ/Rij rats. 2006
- Judge, Twelfth Annual Research Day, UF Jacksonville 2006
- UF Dean’s Research Grant Award 2004.
MAJOR COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS:
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
CME Committee Board Member 8/2002-2009
Task Force in Technology in Medical Education, UF 2006- 2009
Compliance Leader, Neurology Department 2002
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY
Education Committee 2006-CURRENT
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION NORTHEAST FLORIDA
Advisory Board Member 2002- CURRENT
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, LiveMed Journal, Neurology 2006- 2008
Editorial review board, Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2007- CURRENT
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: ACTIVE MEMBER
CME Committee member 2006- CURRENT
Education and Technology Committee 2006- CURRENT
Student & Resident Education Committee Member 2002-2004
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY ACTIVE MEMBER
AMERICAN CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY ACTIVE MEMBER
FIRST COAST NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY ACTIVE MEMBER
DUVAL MEDICAL SOCIETY ACTIVE MEMBER
MAJOR RESEARCH INTEREST:
Medical education: Learning styles and use of technology
Nonsynaptic mechanisms in epilepsy
Improve yield of Electroencephalogram
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Courses and Clerkships:
- Neurology Clerkship Director, UF Jacksonville 2003- 2009
- Program Director, Research Epilepsy/EEG Fellowship 2005-2009
- Epilepsy Classification, teaching course to third-year medical students.
Bi-weekly. 1998- 2009
- Clinical neurophysiology, Neurology residents
UF Jacksonville, weekly group teaching 2007
- Grand Rounds:
Neuroscience program at Baptist Medical Center, Jacksonville 2007
Department of Neurology, UF Jacksonville 2006
Department of Medicine, UF Jacksonville 2004
- Teaching EEG technicians, basic principles and clinical EEG. Small group
teaching 1998- Current
- CME courses:
Women Issues in Epilepsy
Epilepsy and Neuroprotection
Epilepsy in the Elderly
Practical Approach for AED Combination Therapy
Seizure Management Made Ridiculous Simple
Advances in Epilepsy
Surgical management of Epilepsy
Seizing Status Epilepticus
Understanding EEG, web-based course directed to community neurologists and EEG technicians.
EEG in Clinical Practice, web-based course directed to community neurologists and EEG technicians
- Community Education:
Epilepsy, Hispanic Health Fair 2002, 2003. Community oriented education in epilepsy.
Epilepsy Awareness, Community oriented education in epilepsy.
The Art of Epilepsy, panelist. Epilepsy Foundation Northeast Florida. Community oriented education in epilepsy.
Curriculum development:
Web base curriculum development for the neurology clerkship, UF Jacksonville 2007
TEACHING AWARDS:
- Exemplary Teacher Award. College of Medicine University of Florida 2008-2009
- Exemplary Teacher Award. College of Medicine University of Florida 2007-2008
- Exemplary Teacher Award. College of Medicine University of Florida 2005-2006
- Exemplary Teacher Award, College of Medicine. University of Florida. 2003-2004
- Master Educator in Medical Education, Recognition
University of Florida, Faculty Development program 2004
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Bautista RE, Ochoa JG. Osmo-therapy for seizures: a new treatment paradigm? Clin Neurophysiol. 2009; 120(4):673-8
- Bautista RE, Gonzales-Salazar W, Ochoa JG. Expanding the theory of symptom modeling in patents with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. Epilepsy Behav. 2008 Aug;13(2):407-9
- Ochoa JG, Wludyka P.
Randomized comparison between traditional and traditional plus interactive Web-based methods for teaching seizure disorders. Teach Learn Med. 2008 Apr-Jun;20(2):114-7.-
- Ochoa, JG. Gonzalez, W. Adjuntive oral electrolyte theraphy for uncontrolled seizures in children.
J Ped Neuro.
Volume 6, Number 4, Year 2008-
Ochoa J, Gonzalez W, Bautista R, DeCerce J.
32-Channel banana-avg montage is better than 16-channel double banana montage to detect epileptiform discharges in routine EEGs. Clin Neurophysiol. 2008 Oct;119(10):2185-7.
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Ochoa, JG Teaching Seizure Disorders: Comparison between traditional method and Interactive Web-based program. PI, Randomized blinded prospective Study. Teaching and Learning Medicine /Oct.2007
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Ochoa, JG. Electrolyte Therapy for Refractory Epilepsy in Familial Dysautonomia, Epilepsia, 45(11):1-2, 2004
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Ochoa, JG. Familial Dysautonomia (Riley-Day Syndrome) may be associated with epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2003 Mar;44(3):472.
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Ochoa, JG. Pruritus, a rare but troublesome side effect of topiramate. Seizure 2003;12: 516-518
REVIEWS:
Antiepileptic Drugs: An Overview.
- Wolf,S; Ochoa,JG. Seizure Management in Pediatric Patients in the Nineties Annals of Pediatrics, Oct. 1998
BOOKS:
- Juan G. Ochoa and Mario Pulido. Parasomnias, Book Chapter. Clinical Sleep Disorders, Dec 2004, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. First edition, Paul Carney, Richard Berry, and Jim Geyer.
- Juan G. Ochoa and Willise Riche. Antiepileptic Drugs: An overview. eMEDICINE, Online book chapter, last revision 2007
- Luis Carlos Mayor, Juan G. Ochoa, Jorge Burneo, Carlos Alberto Quijano. Curso virtual de electroencephalografia.. eHealth, Fundacion Santafe de Bogota. Author, Online Book. 2005
DRUG TRIALS:
2004 LAM 40112: Double-blind Randomized Trial of Cognitive Effects of Lamictal versus Topamax in Epilepsy, Funded by Glaxo
2003-2004 LAM 40117: A Multicenter, Open-Label, Pilot Study of Lamotrigine as Adjunctive Therapy and Monotherapy in Patients with Epilepsy and Comorbid Deppressive Symptoms
Principal Investigator, Funded by Glaxo
2002 LAM40013: A Multicenter, Open Label Conversion of Valproate Monotherapy to Lamotrigine Monotherapy in Patients with Epilepsy.
Principal Investigator, Funded by Glaxo
2003-present IXL-201-14-189: Efficacy and Safety of Talampanel as Adjunctive Therapy in Patients With Partial Seizures: A Phase II Clinical Trial
Co-Investigator
1999 TOPAMAX: Action of Co-therapy on Tolerability in the Clinical Setting
Principal Investigator. Funded by Ortho-McNeal
1999-2000 S.T.O.P.S trial (Safety and Therapeutic effect of Oxcarbazepine in Patients with Partial Seizures)
GP 47680/Oxcabazepine
Principal Investigator. Funded by Novartis
2001-2004 WASID, Warfarin-Aspirin symptomatic Intracranial Disease Study
Co-investigator. Funded by NIH
1998 GAINS, An International, Multi-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study to Asses over 3 Months the Safety, Efficacy and Pharmacoeconomics of an 800 mg Loading dose and Five mg Maintenance Doses of GV150526 in the Treatment of Patients with a Clinical Diagnosis of Acute Stroke. Protocol GLYA3002
Co-investigator, Funded by Glaxo-Wellcome
A dosing algorithm for converting valproate monotherapy to lamotrigine monotherapy in patients with epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior 6 (2005) 63-70. Contributor investigator.