Marisa Gardner

Marisa Gardner, MD is an Associate Professor in the UCSF School of Medicine, specializing in Pediatric Neurology at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. As Director of the Neurological Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, her clinical focus spans newborn neurological disorders and epilepsy management.

• Medical Degree: UCSF School of Medicine (2008)
• Board Certifications: Pediatric Neurology (2013) and Epilepsy (2014)

Her research program explores:

• Neonatal seizure prevention and treatment
• Health care cost analysis for neurological disorders
• Neurophysiological monitoring in critically ill infants
• Clinical case studies of rare neurological syndromes

Publications span neonatal stroke economics, metabolic brain disease imaging, and surgical neurophysiology. She collaborates with the Child Neurology Society and American Epilepsy Society, maintaining active clinical programs in both neonatal neurology and fetal neurological assessment.