Nicholas Ortiz, M.D.

Nicholas Ortiz, M.D., serves as clinical director of neuromodulation, overseeing electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation and deep brain stimulation for obssesive-compulsive disorder. 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.

Ortiz works as an inpatient psychiatrist at Ascension Seton Shoal Creek Hospital, where he oversees resident and medical student training and education. He also manages a small cohort of patients with deep brain stimulators for treatment-resistant OCD. He is the psychiatry faculty supervisor for Texas Health Action and Kind Clinic and teaches several courses to medical students and psychiatry residents.

Ortiz is involved in several ongoing research studies investigating the effect of neuromodulation therapies on psychiatric illness, including TMS for atypical depression, TMS following psilocybin for depression, vagal nerve stimulation for depression and DBS for Alzheimer’s disease. His publications appear in the American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology and Current Psychiatry. His awards include psychiatry teacher of the year, faculty of the year, faculty mentorship award, medical student educator award and a faculty humanism award.