Lauren H Hammer, MD, PhD
Neurology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neurology Pennsylvania Hospital
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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: Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center - Chestnut Hill
  • 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

Roller JR, Yahia A, Stevanin G, Ahmed AE, Alawadhi AMT, Almannai M, Busehail MY, Choi AH, Elhassan AA, Elsayed LEO, Goode C, Hammer LH, Laukaitis C, Begtrup A, Paul RA, Roohi J, Tomoum HY, Bauer P, Schöls L, Basto JP, Synofzik M, Hengel H. The RAB3A hot spot variant R83W causes spasticity as part of the ataxia-spasticity spectrum , Brain: 2026


Goldblum Z, Shi H, Xu Z, Ojemann W, Aguila CA, Long K, Xie K, Nix KC, Walsh K, Chang E, Lavelle S, Bach B, Davis KA, Sinha N, Hammer LH, Conrad EC, Litt B An Implantable Device that Converses with Patients and Learns to Co-Manage Epilepsy , medRxiv: 2026


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


Yao J, Hammer L, Shi C, Suh J, Li L, Lawrence D, Starr P, Little S Generalizable Automated Optimization Pipeline for Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation Parameter Selection in Parkinson’s Disease , IEEE Conf on Neural Engineering, San Diego, USA : 2025


Leung B, Cernera C, Oehrn C, Shcherbakova M, Yao J, Hahn A, Little S, Starr PA, Hammer LHH Bayesian Classification With and Without Temporal History for Estimating Parkinsonian Symptom State for Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation , IEEE Conf on Neural Engineering, San Diego, USA : 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: 2025


Zelikovich AS, Schneider S, Mandal AS, Hammer LH, Lancaster E A Case Report of a Patient with Progressive Subacute Autonomic Dysfunction From an Autoimmune Cause , American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine Annual Meeting: 2025


Leung B, Cernera C, Oehrn C, 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 Annual Meeting: 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


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