Dominic Siler, MD, PhD

Dominic Siler grew up in the Pacific Northwest and moved to southern California to attend California State University Long Beach as a music performance major. While there, he discovered a passion for medicine and neuroscience, then changed directions to pursue a career as a physician-scientist. He returned to Portland, Oregon to attend OHSU as part of the MSTP MD, PhD program. During his training, he successfully competed for NIH F30 funding and obtained a PhD in the laboratory of Nabil Alkayed MD, PhD, studying mechanisms of delayed cerebral ischemia following subarachnoid hemorrhage. His dissertation now serves as the groundwork for a novel therapy to treat patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage and is currently in phase 1 clinical trials. After graduation, Dominic stayed on to train with OHSU’s neurosurgery program. While in training, his clinical practice and research focused on the critically ill neurosurgery population, especially neurotrauma. He is now completing a neurotrauma/neurocritical care fellowship at the University of Washington. Outside of neurosurgery, Dominic spends all of his free time with his wife, Janelle, and two kids, Bastian and Esme, who are the light of his life.