Chief of Child Neurology
Dr. Donna M. Ferriero is chief of Child Neurology at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, where she directs a team of doctors with expertise in epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, developmental disabilities and cancer. She is an expert in the care of newborns and children with neurological disabilities and director of the Neonatal Brain Disorders Center at UCSF — funded by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke — to study the mechanisms of ischemic, or blood flow, injury in the neonatal brain.
Ferriero is a professor of neurology and pediatrics and a member of the graduate program in biomedical sciences. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Rutgers University and her medical degree at UCSF. She completed child neurology training and a postdoctoral research fellowship at UCSF before joining the UCSF faculty in 1987. She has been honored at UCSF as a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Academic Senate, Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women and Sidney Carter Award from the American Academy of Neurology for excellence in child neurology. In 2010, Ferriero was appointed to the National Neurological Disorders and Stroke Advisory Council.
Child Neurology
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
First visit: (415) 353-3682
Follow up: (415) 353-8395
Neurointensive Care Nursery
505 Parnassus Ave., 15th floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-1565
UCSF Regional Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center
350 Parnassus Ave., Suite 908
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 353-3939
Spanish
UCSF School of Medicine 1979
Mass General, Pediatrics 1982
UCSF Medical Center, Child Neurology 1985