Lauren Hammer, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurology
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
330 South 9th Street
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Publications
Education:
BS (Summa Cum Laude in Biomedical Engineering)
Northwestern University, 2008.
PhD (Biomedical Engineering)
Northwestern University, 2015.
MD (Magna Cum Laude in Scientia Experimentali)
Northwestern University, 2016.
Permanent linkBS (Summa Cum Laude in Biomedical Engineering)
Northwestern University, 2008.
PhD (Biomedical Engineering)
Northwestern University, 2015.
MD (Magna Cum Laude in Scientia Experimentali)
Northwestern University, 2016.
Selected Publications
Borges PGLB, Qureshi Q, Hammer LH, Cajigas I.: Effect of Motor Imagery on Tremor in a Patient With Parkinson Disease Undergoing Intraoperative Testing. Neurology 105: e214246, Nov 2025.Hammer L, Cernera S, Oehrn C, Shcherbakova M, Hahn A, Yao J, Weiss O, Little S, Starr P: Stimulation-Entrained Gamma-Driven Adaptive DBS Improves Motor Diary Reports of Symptom Fluctuations in Parkinson’s Disease. The International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Honolulu, USA Oct 2025.
Leung B, Cernera S, Oehrn CR, Shcherbakova M, Yao J, Hahn A, Little S, Starr PA, Hammer LHH: Bayesian Models of Parkinsonian Symptom States for Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation: A Comparison of Classifiers With and Without Temporal History. Biomedical Engineering Society 2025 Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA Oct 2025.
Yao J, Shcherbakova M, Hahn A, Hammer L, Cernera S, Oehrn C, Little S, Starr P: Full-year Open-label Tracking of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease in Two Patients: Considerations for Long-term Algorithm Maintenance. The International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Honolulu, USA Oct 2025.
Zelikovich AS, Schneider s, Mandal A, Hammer LHH, Lancaster E: Clinical Reasoning: A 72-Year-Old Man With Progressive Pan-Dysautonomia. Neurology 105: e213994, Sep 2025.
Bronte-Stewart HM, Beudel M, Ostrem JL, Little S, Almeida L, Ramirez-Zamora A, Fasano A, Hassell T, Mitchell KT, Moro E, Gostkowski M, Chattree G, de Bie RMA, de Neeling M, Piña-Fuentes D, Swinnen B, Starr PA, Hammer LH, Foote KD, Richardson RM, Flaherty A, Boogers A, Sa'di Q, Meoni S, Castrioto A, Stanslaski S, Summers RLS, Tonder L, Tan Y, Berrier H, Goble TJ, Raike RS, Herrington TM; ADAPT-PD Investigators.: Long-Term Personalized Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson Disease: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Neurol Sep 2025.
Cernera S, Shcherbakova M, Hammer LH, Friedrich M, Peach R, Ip CW, Bledsoe I, Little S, Starr PA.: Oscillatory dynamics in isolated dystonia: five hundred hours of chronic invasive multisite motor network recordings. J Neurophysiol Jul 2025.
Qureshi Q, Borges P, Davis P, Kim MJ, Sargur K, Haggerty J, Wingel K, Mermel C, Byun B, Miller J, Dister J, Hammer LH, Pesaran Bijan, Rapoport BI, Cajigas I: M1-STN Coherence and Connectivity Analyses Using a Novel, High-Density Array. American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Meeting Apr 2025.
Yao J, Hammer L, Oehrn C, Cernera S, Shcherbakova M, Hahn A, Lawrence D, Little S, Starr P: Personalized neural biomarker optimization improves classification of medication state in Parkinson’s disease. 6th International Brain Stimulation Conference Feb 2025.
Oehrn C, Cernera S, Hammer L, Shcherbakova M, Yao J, Hahn A, Wang S, Ostrem J, Little S, Starr P: Technical challenges in developing chronic adaptive deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease. 6th International Brain Stimulation Conference Feb 2025.