Penn Medicine Provider
Neurology
Lauren H Hammer, MD, PhD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neurology Pennsylvania Hospital
Make an appointmentCall 800-789-7366

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

My research

Oehrn CR, Salehi N, Weber I, Petershagen W, Cernera S, Hammer LH, Shcherbakova M, Yao J, Hahn A, Wang S, Ostrem JL, Little S, Starr PA Neural oscillations inform deep brain stimulation for cognitive and motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease , Brain Stimulation, 18: 2025,208-617

Cernera S, Oehrn CR, Hammer LH, Shcherbakova M, Yao J, Hahn A, Wang S, Ostrem JL, Little S, Starr PA. Sustained Clinical Benefit of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease Using Gamma Oscillations: A Case Report , Mov Disord: 2024

Vizcarra JA, Yarlagadda S, Xie K, Ellis CA, Spindler M, Hammer LH. Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis and Quantitative Phenotyping of Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders: A Systematic Review , J Clin Med, 13: 2024,7009

Oehrn CR, Cernera S, Hammer LH (co-first author), Shcherbakova M, Yao J, Hahn A, Wang S, Ostrem JL, Little S, Starr PA. Chronic adaptive deep brain stimulation versus conventional stimulation in Parkinson's disease: a blinded randomized feasibility trial , Nat Med: 2024

Cummins DD, Sandoval-Pistorius SS, Cernera S, Fernandez-Gajardo F, Hammer LH, Starr PA Physiological effects of dual target DBS in an individual with Parkinson's disease and a sensing-enabled pulse generator , Parkinsonism Relat Disord., 122(106089): 2024

Cummins DD, Sandoval-Pistorius SS, Cernera S, Fernandez R, Hammer LH, Starr PA Subthalamic-pallidal beta coherence and gamma entrainment: Assessing STN-GP connectivity in Parkinson’s Disease , Society for Neuroscience: 2023

Oehrn CR, Cernera S, Hammer LH, Shcherbakova M, Hahn A, Smyth C, Little S, Starr PA. At-home adaptive deep brain stimulation improves motor fluctuations in patients with Parkinson’s disease: A single-blind randomized study. , The XXV Congress of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Stockholm, Sweden: 2023

Hammer L, Yilmaz E, Little S, Zahed H, Volz MM, Ravi S, Wang S, Starr PA, Ostrem JL. Stability of basal ganglia beta band power distribution during continuous deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease: analysis of sub-cohort from the ADAPT-PD. , The International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Copenhagen, Denmark: 2023

Cernera S, Oehrn CR, Hammer LH, Yao J, Shcherbakova M, Hahn AG, Wang SS, Racine CA, Ostrem JL, Smyth CN, Little S, Starr PA At-home, embedded closed-loop deep brain stimulation using data-driven neural physiomarkers alleviates residual motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease. , The 10th International BCI Meeting: Balancing Innovation and Translation, Brussels, Belgium: 2023

Hammer LH, Oehrn CR, Cernera S, Yao J, Shcherbakova M, Hahn AG, Wang SS, Racine CA, Ostrem JL, Smyth CN, Little S, Starr PA. Long term stability of subthalamic nucleus physiomarkers during optimization of an adaptive deep brain stimulation system. , The 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting, Bethesda, USA: 2023

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