Andy Vega MD

Pain Medicine, Pediatric Pain Medicine

Resident Physician PGY4

Summary

Dr. Andy Vega is an anesthesiologist based in Milwaukee, WI, with subspecialties in Pain Medicine and Pediatric Pain Medicine. He graduated from San Juan Bautista School of Medicine in 2021 and has been working as a Resident Physician in Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin since then. His research contributions include publications on mental health risks in Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria and imaging of osseous metastatic lesions, among others. His work has been cited multiple times in academic literature. Dr. Vega is a recipient of honors such as Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

PubMed

5 citations
Mental health and associated risk factors of Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane María.
Marina Stukova, Gina Cardona, Adriana Tormos, Andy Vega, Grisel Burgos
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2023-07-01
1 citations
Correlation between Parental Vaccine Hesitancy, Socio-demographic Factors, and Novel SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Puerto Rico.
Abner G Alemán-Reyes, Ernie Díaz-Rivera, Antonio J Rodríguez-Quiñones, Xiomara S Molina-Pérez, Gabriela I Oquendo-Claudio
Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal. 2022-12-01
2 citations
Post-Hurricane Distress Scale (PHDS): Determination of General and Disorder-Specific Cutoff Scores.
Yonatan Carl, Andy Vega, Gina Cardona-Acevedo, Marina Stukova, Melissa Matos-Rivera
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022-04-25

Journal Articles

Mental Health Assessment and Risk Characterization in Puerto Rico’s Homeless Post-Hurricane Maria
Andy Vega, Yonatan Carl, Xiomara Molina-Perez, Gerardo Collazo-Malave, Kiara Ortiz-Camacho, Benjamin Gonzalez-Burgos, Sofia Martir-Gonzalez, Claudio Villalobos, Raul F..., Journal of Poverty, 7/26/2023

Abstracts/Posters

FDG PET/CT and NaF PET/CT imaging quantification of osseous metastatic lesions in patients with metastatic genitourinary (mGU) cancer and their association with surviv...
Rod Carlo Columbres, Nicholas I. Simon, Elias Chandran, Katherine Lei, Nicholas Peter Verdini, Jeffrey Lin, Andy Vega, Scot Anthony Niglio, Lisa M. Cordes, Lisa Ley, T..., Journal of Clinical Oncology, 5/31/2023
The association of FDG PET/CT and NaF PET/CT with survival outcomes in patients (pts) with metastatic genitourinary malignancies (mGU) treated with cabozantinib + nivo...
Nicholas I. Simon, Katherine Lei, Nicholas Peter Verdini, Jeffrey Lin, Andy Vega, Scot Anthony Niglio, Amir Mortazavi, Sumanta K. Pal, Jeffrey Kempf, Murray Becker, Mi..., JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2/16/2022