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Phone number & Fax for all locations:
Phone: 619.297.4481 | Fax: 619.291.5536
San Diego Office: 3750 Convoy St., Suite 301, San Diego, CA 9211
La Mesa Office: 5565 Grossmont Center Drive, Building 1, Suite 210, La Mesa, CA 91942
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Curriculum Vitae - Ostrup

Education:
1975 B.A., University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
M.D., University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Davis, CA

1979 Intern., General Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1980 Resident, General Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1981 Resident, Neurological Surgery, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA

1986 Chief Resident, Neurological Surgery, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Clinical Instructor at UCSD - Department Division of Neurology

January 1987 - June 1987
Clinical Fellow in Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

June 1987 - Present
Member and Partner of Neurosurgical Medical Clinic, Inc., San Diego, CA

November 1991
Board Certified American Association of Neurological Surgeons

1998 - 2016
Qualified Medical Examiner, State of California

 

Honors:

’04-’17, ’19, ’20, ’21 “Top Doctor” In Neurosurgery as voted by San Diego Medical Society Physicians Published in San Diego Magazine (18 years)

1986 Chairman’s Award, UCSD Department of Surgery, Given for Outstanding Achievement in Residency, 1986

1979 Loren D. Carlson Student Research Award for Outstanding Senior Research Project

1979 Alpha Omega Alpha

 

Memberships:

National Eagle Scout Association
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American College of Surgeons
American Society of Peripheral Nerve
California Association of Neurosurgeons
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
North American Spine Society
American College of Sports Medicine

 

Appointments:

October 1986 - December 1992
Clinical Instructor, University of California, San Diego
Division of Neurological Surgery, San Diego, California

January 1993 - Present
Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego,
Division of Neurological Surgery, San Diego, California

January 1994 - 1997
Division Chief of Neurosurgery, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California

November 2000 - 2002
President of the San Diego Neurological Society

January 2005 - November 2006
Division Chief of Neurosurgery, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, California

January 2009 - December 2010
Division Chief of Neurosurgery, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California

January 2012 - December 2012
Division Chief of Neurosurgery, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, California

2010 - Present
Medical Advisory Board - Advocates for Injured Athletes

2005 - August 2017
Neurosurgeon Consultant, San Diego Chargers

2013 - August 2017
Affiliated Neuro-trauma Consultant for the San Diego Chargers

January 2015 - January 2021
Division Chief of Neurosurgery, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, California

January 2017 - January 2021
Chief, Department of Surgery, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, California

January 2020 - Present
Surgical Supervisor Committee-Neurosurgery representative,
Sharp Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa, California

 

Invention:

Chief Investigator, Inventor, Camino Catheter Fiberoptic Intracranial Pressure Monitoring Device
(OLM) R.C. Ostrup, T.G. Luerssen, L.F. Marshall, 1986, Camino Labs

 

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS:

Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla
9888 Genesee Avenue
La Jolla, CA 92037

Scripps Mercy Hospital
4077 Fifth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92103

Scripps Mercy Hospital, Chula Vista
435 H Street
Chula Vista, CA 91910

Scripps Memorial Hospital, Encinitas
354 Santa Fe Drive
Encinitas, CA 92024

Coast Surgery Center
3444 Kearny Villa Road
San Diego, CA 92123

Sharp Memorial Hospital
7901 Frost Street
San Diego, CA 92123

Sharp Chula Vista
751 Medical Center Ct
Chula Vista, CA 91911

Sharp Grossmont Hospital
5555 Grossmont Center Drive
La Mesa, CA 91944

 

Bibliography

Published Work:

  1. Ostrup, R.C.:  “Pulsatile Lavage in the Management of Postoperative Wound Infection”. Am. Surgeon. Volume 46, July 1980.  ARTICLE
  2. Todd, M.D., Drummond, J.C., U.H.S., Ostrup, R., Stanski, D.R.:  “Hemodynamic Effects of High Dose Thiopental Anesthesia in Humans”. Anesthesiology (Special Supplement), 57:A39, Sept. 1982. ARTICLE
  3. Ostrup, R.C., Marshall, L.F.:  “Real-Time Ultrasonography: “A Useful Tool in the Evaluation of the Craniectomized, Brain Injured Patient”.  Neurosurgery 12:225-227, February 1983.  ARTICLE
  4. Ostrup, R.C., Todd, M.M., Zornow MH, Marshall, L.F., Luerssen, T.G.: “The Clinical Measurement of Brain Tissue Pressures – A New Device Advantageous for Measuring Intracranial Pressure in the Child”.  American Association of Neurological Surgeons Pediatric Section, Houston, TX, December 1985.  ABSTRACT
  5. Marshall, L.F., Zovickian, J., Ostrup, R. and Seelig, J.M.: “Multiple Simultaneous Recordings of ICP in Patients with Acute Mass Lesions.” In: Intracranial Pressure VI, JD Miller, GM Teasdale, JO Powan, et al. (eds). 184-186, 1986.  Springer-Verlag, New York.  BOOK CHAPTER
  6. Ostrup, R.C., Luerssen, T.G., Marshall, L.F., Zornow, M.H., Todd, M.M.: “A Miniaturized Fiber Optic Device for the Continuous Monitoring of Intracranial Pressure”.  Journal of Neurosurgery 67: 206-209, 1987.  ARTICLE
  7. Hesslink, J., Healy, M., Ostrup, R., Alksne, J.: “Magnetic Resonance Demonstration of Symptomatic Spinal Epidural Lipomatosis”. Neurosurgery.
  8. Raiszedeh, K., Korsh, E., Ostrup, R.:  “Cervical Spine Surgery in an Ambulatory Surgery Center”.  The Spine Journal of the North American Spine Society.  Volume 3, Number 5S September / October 2003.  ARTICLE

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