Lauren H Hammer, MD, PhD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neurology Pennsylvania Hospital
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Residency: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Fellowship: University of California San Francisco

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Hammer is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

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: 2025,e214246


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: 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: 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: 2025


Zelikovich AS, Schneider s, Mandal A, Hammer LHH, Lancaster E Clinical Reasoning: A 72-Year-Old Man With Progressive Pan-Dysautonomia , Neurology, 105: 2025,e213994


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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 2025


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