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About the Center

The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center has an international reputation for its excellence as a clinical and research facility and the UCSF Department of Neurology is widely recognized as one of the leading neuroscience centers in the United States.

The Parkinson's Disease Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco Department of Neurology has been a National Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence since 1992.

Mission Statement:

  • To provide comprehensive and compassionate care for patients and families affected by Parkinson's disease
  • To discover causes and effective treatments of Parkinson's disease
  • To educate general medical practitioners, patients, caregivers and the general public 

Events/In the News

7/11/2013 UCSF DBS Support Group Meeting.  6-8pm in Conference Room E (400 Parnassus Avenue, 8th Floor Neurology Clinic)
6/11/2013 Call in for the PD at Home teleconference.  This week's topic is Anxiety and PD with guest speaker Dr. A Johnson from UCLA Medical Center.  The call takes placeat 9am PST.  Information including the conference phone number here
6/7/2013 Join Dr. Michael Aminoff, Director of the UCSF Parkinson's Disease Research Center, for an afternoon lecture at The Sequoias retirement center from 2:00-3:00 pm as he discusses the basics of PD including diagnosis and treatments.  For more information please contact Susan Godstone at sgodstone@support.ucsf.edu . Flyer here