Nicholas F. Ortiz, M.D.

Nicholas Ortiz, M.D., serves as clinical director of interventional psychiatry, overseeing electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and vagal nerve stimulation. Dr. Ortiz works as a procedural and outpatient psychiatrist where he oversees fellow, resident, and medical student training and education. He is also the psychiatry faculty supervisor for treatment refractory mood disorders clinic within Ascension and UT.

Dr. Ortiz earned his Bachelor of Science from Southwestern University and received his medical degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He subsequently completed his general psychiatry residency at The University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School.

Dr. Ortiz is involved in several ongoing research studies investigating the effect of neuromodulation therapies on psychiatric illness, including TMS for post-partum depression, TMS following psilocybin for depression, vagal nerve stimulation for bipolar and unipolar depression. His publications appear in the American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology, Journal of ECT and Current Psychiatry. His awards include teacher of the year, faculty of the year, faculty mentor of the year, medical student educator of the year and a the faculty humanism award.