Elsa Arocho-Quinones, MD

Assistant Professor

Locations

Neurosciences - Children's Wisconsin
9000 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Contact Information

(414) 266-6435

Education

Fellowship, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 2020
Neurological Surgery Residency, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
Neurological Surgery Internship, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2013
MD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 2012
Medical Curriculum, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, Caguas, Puerto Rico, 2011
Master’s Level Curriculum in Biological Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2005
BS, Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002

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Biography

Most recently a faculty member at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Arocho-Quinones grew up in Puerto Rico, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico. She then pursued master’s level graduate studies in Biological Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), before earning her medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Dr. Arocho-Quinones completed her Neurosurgery Internship and Residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.

She has won several awards, including Outstanding Medical School Teacher at MCW, and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

Clinical Programs

Treatment of a Pial Arterial Venous Fistula in a Newborn: 2-Dimensional Operative Video.

(Treffy RW, Hussain O, Arocho-Quinones EV, Hedayat HS.) Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2024 Aug 01;27(2):260-261 PMID: 38391205 02/23/2024
Dabrafenib for Pilocytic Astrocytoma With BRAF V599ins.

(Tanaka R, Mrachek K, Arocho-Quinones E, Carlberg VM, Smith C, Kurzrock R, Deshmukh T.) JCO Precis Oncol. 2024 May;8:e2400055 PMID: 38781546 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85200505701 05/23/2024
Distinct Functional Connectivity Patterns for Intermittent Vs Constant Neuropathic Pain Phenotypes in Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome Type 2 Patients.

(Pahapill PA, Arocho-Quinones EV, Chen G, Swearingen B, Tomas CW, Koch KM, Nencka AS.) J Pain Res. 2024;17:1453-1460 PMID: 38628431 PMCID: PMC11020324 04/17/2024
Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sequences in Patients With Postsurgical Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome Type 2 With Implanted Spinal Cord Stimulation Systems: A Safety, Feasibility, and Validity Study.

(Pahapill PA, Chen G, Arocho-Quinones EV, Nencka AS.) Neuromodulation. 2023 Jul;26(5):1009-1014 PMID: 37204362 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85159401230 05/19/2023
Magnetic resonance imaging-guided stereotactic laser ablation therapy for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy: a retrospective multiinstitutional study.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Lew SM, Handler MH, Tovar-Spinoza Z, Smyth MD, Bollo RJ, Donahue D, Perry MS, Levy M, Gonda D, Mangano FT, Kennedy BC, Storm PB, Price AV, Couture DE, Oluigbo C, Duhaime AC, Barnett GH, Muh CR, Sather MD, Fallah A, Wang AC, Bhatia S, Eastwood D, Tarima S, Graber S, Huckins S, Hafez D, Rumalla K, Bailey L, Shandley S, Roach A, Alexander E, Jenkins W, Tsering D, Price G, Meola A, Evanoff W, Thompson EM, Brandmeir N, Pediatric Stereotactic Laser Ablation Workgroup.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2023 Mar 03:1-14 PMID: 36883640 PMCID: PMC10193482 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85164495860 03/09/2023
Large-scale brain networks and intra-axial tumor surgery: a narrative review of functional mapping techniques, critical needs, and scientific opportunities.

(Boerger TF, Pahapill P, Butts AM, Arocho-Quinones E, Raghavan M, Krucoff MO.) Front Hum Neurosci. 2023;17:1170419 PMID: 37520929 PMCID: PMC10372448 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85165910739 07/31/2023
Large-scale brain networks and intra-axial tumor surgery: a narrative review of functional mapping techniques, critical needs, and scientific opportunities

(Boerger TF, Pahapill P, Butts AM, Arocho-Quinones E, Raghavan M and Krucoff MO.) Front. Hum. Neurosci.. Boerger TF, Pahapill P, Butts AM, Arocho-Quinones E, Raghavan M and Krucoff MO (2023) Large-scale brain networks and intra-axial tumor surgery: a narrative review of functional mapping techniques, critical needs, and scientific opportunities. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 17:1170419. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1170419 07/13/2023
Vacuum-assisted elevation of pediatric ping-pong skull fractures: a case series and technical note.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Lew SM, Foy AB.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2021 Mar 01;27(3):325-334 PMID: 33361480 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85102201707 12/29/2020
Magnetic resonance-guided stereotactic laser ablation therapy for the treatment of pediatric brain tumors: a multiinstitutional retrospective study.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Lew SM, Handler MH, Tovar-Spinoza Z, Smyth M, Bollo R, Donahue D, Perry MS, Levy ML, Gonda D, Mangano FT, Storm PB, Price AV, Couture DE, Oluigbo C, Duhaime AC, Barnett GH, Muh CR, Sather MD, Fallah A, Wang AC, Bhatia S, Patel K, Tarima S, Graber S, Huckins S, Hafez DM, Rumalla K, Bailey L, Shandley S, Roach A, Alexander E, Jenkins W, Tsering D, Price G, Meola A, Evanoff W, Thompson EM, Brandmeir N, Pediatric Stereotactic Laser Ablation Workgroup.) J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2020 Jul 01;26(1):13-21 PMID: 32217793 PMCID: PMC7885863 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85087970947 03/29/2020
Functional connectivity and structural analysis of trial spinal cord stimulation responders in failed back surgery syndrome.

(Pahapill PA, Chen G, Arocho-Quinones EV, Nencka AS, Li SJ.) PLoS One. 2020;15(2):e0228306 PMID: 32074111 PMCID: PMC7029839 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079521450 02/20/2020
Care Bundle Approach to Minimizing Infection Rates after Neurosurgical Implants for Neuromodulation: A Single-Surgeon Experience.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Huang CC, Ward BD, Pahapill PA.) World Neurosurg. 2019 Aug;128:e87-e97 PMID: 30986582 PMCID: PMC6790165 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85065981324 04/16/2019
Improvement of Hypothalamic Hamartoma-Related Psychiatric Disorder After Stereotactic Laser Ablation: Case Report and Review of Literature.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Koop J, Lew SM.) World Neurosurg. 2019 Feb;122:680-683 PMID: 30481631 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85059237124 11/28/2018