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Lauren Hammer, MD, PhD 

Assistant Professor of Neurology

lauren.hammer@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Dr. Lauren Hammer is a movement disorders neurologist and a neural engineer specializing in neuromodulation and neural interfaces. She is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a lead faculty member in the Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics. Her research focuses on developing novel neuromodulation technologies for movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and cerebellar ataxia. Using invasive and non-invasive methods, she studies basal ganglia and cerebellar network dysfunction in movement disorders to advance therapies such as deep brain stimulation. Clinically, she specializes in deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and the care of patients with cerebellar ataxia. Dr. Hammer earned her BS, PhD (biomedical engineering), and MD from Northwestern University. She subsequently completed her neurology residency at Mass General Brigham and both a movement disorders clinical fellowship and postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a member of the University of Pennsylvania's graduate groups in Neuroscience and Bioengineering.