Daniel Ontaneda MD, PhD

Daniel Ontaneda, MD, PhD, is a Staff member of the Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research and Professor of Medicine/Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Ontaneda completed medical school at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, followed by post-doctoral training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, focusing on MS clinical research. Dr. Ontaneda completed a neurology residency at the Cleveland Clinic and a neuro-immunology fellowship at the Mellen Center, Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Ontaneda completed a Master's in Science at Case Western Reserve University in Clinical Research.

Dr. Ontaneda received a Sylvia Lawry National Multiple Sclerosis Society award during the fellowship. Research support continued as junior faculty with an NIH KL2 award from the Cleveland Translational Science Collaborative. Dr. Ontaneda’s research focuses on advanced MRI measures in multiple sclerosis. Dr. Ontaneda leads the Cleveland Clinic's rapid MRI brain donation program.