Jill Ostrem, MD

Dr. Jill Ostrem, MD, is the Carlin and Ellen Wiegner Endowed Professor of Neurology and the Division Chief of the Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center at UCSF. She has a special interest in the medical and surgical treatment of movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease, Dystonia, and Tremor. She earned her medical degree from George Washington University and completed her residency and movement disorders fellowship at UCLA.

She joined UCSF in 2003, where she has helped establish an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary clinical, research, and training Center for the medical and surgical treatment of movement disorders which today offers comprehensive evaluation of movement disorder patients, multidisciplinary medical and surgical management of movement disorder patients, and botulinum neurotoxin injection therapy. Dr. Ostrem’s current research focuses on technical innovations in surgery for movement disorders, development of new DBS systems and strategies, old and new therapeutic brain targets for stimulation, innovations in clinical care and experimental therapeutics for movement disorders.