Gail Kang, M.D.

Neurologist

Dr. Gail Kang is a neurologist at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Her expertise is in behavior and cognitive problems that can occur in movement disorders and caring for patients with these conditions such as Huntington's disease (HD), parkinsonian syndromes and ataxias. In her research, she studies early biomarkers of Huntington's disease and genetic ataxias.

Kang earned a medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. She completed a neurology residency and a movement disorders fellowship at UCLA, where she was a faculty member of the UCLA Movement Disorders group. While at UCLA, Kang researched epidemiological factors in Parkinson's disease and evaluated the effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in movement disorders. In 2004, she was named the clinical co-director and associate director of the Parkinson's Disease Research Education Clinical Center (PADRECC) at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where she was co-investigator for the Department of Defense and Michael J. Fox-sponsored studies that assessed multi-modal MRI to diagnose and track progression of Parkinson's disease. In 2009, she joined the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. She is an assistant clinical professor of neurology at UCSF.

Memory and Aging Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-6880
Fax: (415) 476-4800

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.