Fellowship Training
You can find out more on our UCSF Movement Disorders Fellowship Program website.
The goal of the UCSF Movement Disorders Fellowship is to train the next generation of leading academic clinicians that will advance the understanding and treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other movement disorders. Collegial support, mentorship, and a spirit of collaboration are central to our clinical, research, and educational endeavors. Our program at the UCSF Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center (MDNC) provides a highly integrated multidisciplinary experience in partnership with the San Francisco VA Parkinson’s Disease and Research Education and Clinical Center (PADRECC). This collaboration gives fellows a comprehensive, extraordinarily rich and varied training, as well as mentorship from highly dedicated movement disorders neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, physical therapists, and nurses. In addition to our historically strong neurophysiology/deep brain stimulation (DBS) program (mentored by faculty including Dr. Jill Ostrem and Dr. Philip Starr), our fellowship has been greatly enhanced in recent years by deeper integration with the UCSF Memory and Aging Center (a world-renowned behavioral neurology center conducting cutting-edge dementia and neurodegenerative disease care and research) and the addition of Dr. Caroline Tanner (a leader in PD epidemiology and clinical research) to the UCSF faculty. Our fellows now get in-depth, comprehensive training in design and conduct of clinical trials, basal ganglia physiology, behavioral neurology, observational clinical research, and epidemiology.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) recognized our excellence and innovation in fellowship training when it chose UCSF as one of the sites for the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movements Disorders for 2017-2019.
Fellowship Directors
Rafael Zuzuarregui, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Director, San Francisco VA Parkinson’s Disease and Research Education and Clinical Center
415-353-2311
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Ethan Brown, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
415-353-2311
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