Kenneth Ott, MD, FACS

Dr. Ott has practiced neurosurgery for more than thirty years in San Diego, joining the NMC following his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston in 1976. Prior to residency he attended Yale University and U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine.

 

He has been the Chief of the Divisions of Neurosurgery at Scripps Mercy Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital. He developed the Gamma Knife Radiosurgery program at Scripps Memorial Hospital in 1994 and a movement disorders surgery program in 1999.

 

Currently he is the Medical Director of the San Diego Gamma Knife Center, the immediate past Chief of Neurosurgery at Scripps Memorial Hospital and the President of the California Association of Neurological Surgeons. He has been in continuous practice at the NMC in San Diego since residency..a commitment to San Diego.

 

 


Executive Assistant:

Glory Hammonds        ext 102
fax: 619 297-4218
gloryh@sd-neurosurgeon.com

 

 

 


Offices: Banker's Hill San Diego
, La Jolla, Encinitas, La Mesa

Tel:    619 297-4481
Fax:   619 297-4218

E-Mail: kennott@gmail.com

Areas of special interest: Minimally invasive forms of neurosurgery such as outpatient microlumbar discectomy  and anterior cervical discectomy, Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, as well as Cyberknife and Brainlab Novalis radiosurgery. Much interest in image guided and frame-based stereotactic surgery, functional neurosurgery for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, endoscopic sympathectomy for hyperhydrosis as well as pituitary surgery. Brain tumor surgery is a significant portion of the his practice .


Curriculum Vitae

BIRTHPLACE:  Baltimore, Maryland
EDUCATION:

B.S. in Biochemistry,
    Yale University, New Haven, CN 1962 ­ 1966


M.D
.University of California Medical Center,
    San Francisco, CA 1966­1970


INTERNSHIP:

Externship in Neurology
Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen’s Square, London, England Summer 1969

Internship in Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University 1970­1971
    Boston, MA

RESIDENCY:

Junior Assistant Resident in Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University 1971

 

Junior Assistant Resident in Neurosurgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University 1972 -1976
    Boston City Hospital
    Beth Israel Hospital                                  
    Boston Children’s Hospital
    Peter Bent Brigham Hospital

 

Chief Resident in Neurological Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University 1976

Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Course 1994
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm


CERTIFICATION:

American Board of Neurological Surgery, 1980


HONORS & AWARDS:

Regents Scholar, University of California 1967-70
Roche Award 1968                                  
Alpha Omega Alpha 1969 
Upjohn Achievement Award for Outstanding Academic Attainment 1970
Merck Award 1970  
President California Association of Neurological Surgeons 2010-2011 

 
           
                     

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

California Medical Association
San Diego County Medical Society
California Association of Neurosurgeons
San Diego Academy of Neurological Surgeons
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
American Assoc. of Neurological Surgeons
San Diego Surgical Society
Fellow American College of Surgeons
Western Neurosurgical Society

 

APPOINTMENTS:

Assistant in Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital 1976
President, San Diego Academy of Neurological Surgeons 1980-82
Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of California        San Diego School of Medicine 1980-1992

Board of Directors, California Association of Neurological Surgeons 1981- 1982
Board of Directors, San Diego Foundation for Medical  Care 1983
President, Yale Club of San Diego 1984-86
Chief Division Neurological Surgery
       Mercy Medical Center, San Diego 1985
Chief Section Neurological Surgery,
       Scripps Memorial  Hospital 1986 - 1993
President  Neurosurgical Medical Clinic, Inc.  1993 -1994
Board of Advisors, Pasadena Play House 1993
Executive Director, San Diego Gamma Knife Center 1994-present
Advisor Trigeminal Neuralgia Association
Advisor International Radiosurgery Association
Chief, Division of Neurological Surgery, Scripps Mercy Hospital 2003-2005
California Association of Neurological Surgeons Board 2004-2010
Chief, Division of Neurosurgery, Scripps Memorial Hospital 2005-2007
Member Medtronic Applied Research Technology Advisory Board 2008-2010
President Neurosurgical Medical Clinic 2010

Chief of Surgery, Scripps Memorial Hospital 2008-2010

President California Association of Neurological Surgeons 2010-2011

   

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS:

Scripps Memorial Hospital
Mercy Hospital
Sharp Memorial Hospital 
Scripps Encinitas Hospital   
Tri-City Hospital

Palomar Hospital
Sharp Grossmont Hospital
       

                     

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

ABSTRACTS: 

1. Eldred E, Ott K: Effects on shivering-of cerebellar lesions and stimulation. Fed Proc 1964;23: 567.

2. Ishikawa K., Ott K, Stuart DG, Eldred E: Receptor discharges during near sinusoidal stretch. Physiologist 1964;164: 7.

3. Ishikawa K, Ott K, Stuart DG, Eldred E: Motorneuron responses to stimulation of thermoregulatory regions of the hypothalamus. Physiologist 1965;8: 200.

4. Ott K H: A new method of Motorneuron excitability testing. Texas Rep Bio Med 27;1969: 929-930.

5. Gassel MM, Ott K: Cutaneous proprioceptive reflexes in humans. Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 1969;27: 716-717.

6. Gassel MM, Ott K :The relationship of the latencies of the monosynaptic reflex and the direct motor response-an electrophysiological aid in differential diagnosis. Neurol 20;1970: 396.
PUBLICATIONS: 

1. Stuart DG,Ott K, Eldred E: Effects of cerebellar lesions and stimulation on the shivering tremor. Am J Physiol 1965;209: 1261­ 266.

2. Stuart DG, Ott, K, Ishikawa K, EIdred E: Muscle receptor responses to sinusoidaI stretch. Exp Neurol 1965;13: 82-95.

3. Stuart DG, Ott K, Ishikawa K, EIdred E: The rhythm of shivering. i : general sensory contributions. Amer J Phys Med 1966;45: 61-74.

4. Stuart DG, Ott K, Ishikawa K, EIdred E: The rhythm of shivering . ii passive proprioceptive contributions. Amer J Phys Med 1966;45: 75-90.

5. Stuart DG, Ott K, Ishikawa, K, Eldred E: The rhythm of shivering. iii : central contributions. Amer J Phys Med 1966; 45: 90 ­104.

6. Ishikawa K, Ott K, Porter RW, Stuart DG: Low frequency depression of the h-wave in normal and spinal man. Exp Neurol 1966;15: 140-156.

7. Eldred E, Ott K, Ishikawa K, Stuart DG: Proprioceptive contributions to the shivering tremor. Nobel Symposium I. Muscular Afferents and Motor Control. Ragnar Granit ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1966.

8. Ott K, Gassel M M: Methods of tendon jerk reinforcement. The role of muscle activity in refIex excitabiIity. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 1969;32: 541-547.

9. Gassel MM, Ott K, A novel and accelerated method of evaluating motorneuron excitability. Trans Amer Neurol Assoc 1969;94: 269-270.

9. Gassel, MM, Ott K: Local sign and late effects on motorneuron excitability on cutaneous stimulation in man. Brain 1970;93: 95-106.

11. Gassel MM, Ott K: Motorneuron excitability in man. A novel method of evaluation by modulation of tonic muscle activity. Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 1970;29: 190-195.

12. GasseI MM, Ott K: Patterns of reflex excitability change after widespread cutaneous stimulation in man. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 1973;36: 282-287.

13. Ott K, Kase CS, Ojemann R.G, Mohr JP: Cerebellar hemorrhage: diagnosis and treatment. A review of 56 cases. Arch Neurol 1974;31: 160-167.

14. Ott K , Tarlov E, Crowell R, Papadakis N :Retained intracranial metallic foreign bodies: a report of two cases .J Neurosurg 1976;44: 80-83.

15. Waltz TA, Dalessio DJ, Ott KH, Copeland C, Abbott G: Trigeminal cistern injections for facial pain. Headache 1985;25: 354-357

16. Sinha, YN, Ott, K, Vanderlaam, WP Detection of multiple PRL- and GH- like protein in human pituitary by Western blot analysis. Amer J Med Sci 1987;30:15-25.

17. Ott K: A comparison of craniotomy and gamma knife charges in a community-based gamma knife center. J Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 1996;66 (suppl 1): 357-364.

18. Goetsch SJ, Hardy T, Hodgens D, Lizarraras A, Ott K, Scharfen C, Tung H. The Open gamma knife center concept. J Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 1996;66 (suppl 1): 296-301.

19. Chasen CB, Goetsch S, Ott K. Radiosurgery for pineal tumors. Is biospy indicated? J Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 1996;66 (suppl 1): 174-183.

20. Ott K: Letter to the Editor. Surgery or Radiosurgery? J Neurosurg 1997;86:165-166.

21. Ott K: An Algorithm for the determination of functional stereotactic targets.J Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 1998;71:29-35.

22. Ott K, Hodgens DW, Goetsch S: Gamma Knife radiosurgery of the trigeminal nerve and sphenopalatine ganglion for cluster headache. McDermott MW (ed): Radiosurgery. Basel, Karger, 2010, vol 7, pp 348-359.