Jennifer Chen, MD

Dr. Jennifer Chen is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and the Associate Residency Program Director.

Dr. Jennifer Chen is a board-certified neurologist with subspecialty training in movement disorders.  She received her medical degree at New York University School of Medicine and completed her Neurology Residency at Mount Sinai in New York City. Following her residency, she pursued a two-year fellowship in movement disorders at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), one the largest deep brain stimulation (DBS) referral centers in the West Coast. Her training there has provided her with expertise and experience in the evaluation/selection of DBS candidates and DBS programming for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. Additionally she gained extensive skills in the administration of botulinum toxin for neurologic indications, which is one of her main interests outside of DBS. Currently, she is also involved in several industry-sponsored trials for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

Clinical and Research Interests

• Dystonia
• Deep brain stimulation
• Botulinum toxin treatments
• Essential tremor
• Parkinson’s disease