The Stanford Comprehensive Neurology & Neurosurgery Clinic in Emeryville

Mishu Chandra, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Chandra is clinical assistant professor in the divisions of Comprehensive Neurology and Epilepsy in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is board-certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy.

A Bay Area native, Dr. Chandra completed her undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her medical degree from Rush University Medical College and completed her neurology residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW), where she served as the Academic Chief Resident. She pursued her passion for medical education by founding the Clinician Educator Track for the residency program, and continued to serve as Course Director during her fellowship training in both Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy at UTSW. Dr. Chandra later served as an Associate Program Director for the Neurology residency program. Her clinical and research interests include psychiatric disorders in refractory epilepsy, perioperative management of refractory epilepsy requiring surgical intervention, women’s health in neurology, as well as medical education in clinical neurophysiology.

Olga Fedin Goldberg, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director, Emeryville Neurology Clinic

Dr. Goldberg is board-certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She provides comprehensive neurologic care to patients with a broad range of neurologic conditions, including those who have multiple neurologic conditions. She is interested in medical education for neurology residents and for referring primary care providers and serves as Director of Neurology Resident Continuity Clinic. Additionally, she completed the Stanford CELT (Clinical Education Leadership Training) Program for developing skills in quality improvement. She has led or played a key role in multiple quality improvement projects in the Department of Neurology, including those focused on increasing patient understanding of their neurologic medications upon hospital discharge, improvement of outcomes for headache patients seen in primary care, and in optimizing clinic processes involved in collection of cerebrospinal fluid.

Kathie Lin, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Kathie Lin is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. She is board certified in Neurology and Neuromuscular Medicine after completing her residency at Harvard Neurology Program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and advanced fellowship training at Stanford. She practices both Neuromuscular Medicine and Comprehensive Neurology in Emeryville and Palo Alto. She has a particular interest in the diagnosis and management of neuromuscular disease including neuromuscular junction disorders, motor neuron disease, myopathy, and focal neuropathy. 

Dr Lin is passionate about medical education and developing a practical framework for teaching neurology and neurophysiology to residents. She is an Assistant Program Director of the Stanford Adult Neurology Residency Program, a core preceptor in the Neurology Residency Continuity Clinic, and the Neuromuscular Division teaching lead, responsible for arranging neuromuscular education for neurology residents. She has won the Lysia Forno Award for excellence in resident teaching in the Neurology Department in 2021 and 2026.

Eric Rider, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Rider is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neuromuscular neurologist with the Neuromuscular Program at the Stanford Neuroscience Health Center. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Rider specializes in treating neuromuscular disease, including motor neuron disease, disorders of the neuromuscular junction, peripheral and focal neuropathies, as well as other acquired or genetic conditions that cause muscular deterioration, muscle weakness, and nerve damage. He practices both Comprehensive Neurology and Neuromuscular Medicine in Palo Alto and Emeryville.

Dr. Rider earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco and completed residency at Stanford. He also completed fellowship training in Neuromuscular Medicine at UCSF. He has a passion for teaching neurology to students and patients. He was awarded the Fishers and Dunn teaching award for medical student teaching as a resident. Dr. Rider is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Niyatee Samudra, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Samudra is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She specializes in the care of patients with memory disorders and epilepsy. She has completed fellowship training in behavioral neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Samudra is board-certified in neurology and in epilepsy.

Her research interests include clinical trials in memory disorders and epilepsy; early neurophysiological markers of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders; neuropsychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disorders; and the cognitive and neuropsychiatric consequences of epilepsy. She is interested in improving neurologic care for underserved populations.

Dr. Samudra has published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease; Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports; Journal of the Neurological Sciences; Seizure; and Epilepsy and Behavior, among others. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

Calvin Santiago, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Santiago is board-certified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, specializing in Neurology. He completed his Adult Neurology residency at the University of Toronto and is now a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Comprehensive Neurology at Stanford University. He provides comprehensive neurological care to patients with a broad range of neurological conditions. His academic interests focus on improving access to neurological care, such as reducing wait times and stream-lining referrals so that patients are directed to the most appropriate care provider.

Dong-In Sinn, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Sinn is a clinical assistant professor in the division of autonomic disorders. After graduating from Seoul National University School of Medicine in South Korea, he completed internship and neurology residency at Seoul National University Hospital. Upon finishing three years of mandatory military service, he came to the United States for a family reason. He did a second neurology residency at Medical University of South Carolina and completed an autonomic disorders fellowship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sinn is board certified in Neurology and in Neurophysiology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is also board-certified in Autonomic Disorders by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. His clinical interests include neurogenic orthostatic hypotension, supine hypertension, syncope, afferent baroreflex failure and sweat disorders.

John Thompson, MD, PhD
Comprehensive Neurology Instructorship

Dr. Thompson is a physician-scientist and Clinical Instructor in the Division of Comprehensive Neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He cares for adults across the full range of neurologic conditions. Deeply aware of how these conditions can reshape a person’s life, he is committed to partnering with patients and their families to navigate diagnostic and treatment challenges. He has a particular interest in caring for patients with complex medical comorbidities and those transitioning from inpatient to outpatient settings. His other areas of focus include neuroimmunology and the prevention of chronic neurologic diseases such as stroke and dementia. Dr. Thompson earned his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA as part of the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program, where he received the Richard D. Walter Award for Excellence in Neurology. He completed his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology, studying how protein glycosylation affects neuronal signaling and metabolism. He went on to complete his neurology residency at UCLA, where he designed computational methods to resolve dementia subtypes in an unbiased manner. At Stanford, his research focuses on the development of novel multiomics technologies to understand the genetic and molecular underpinnings of frontotemporal dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders. Beyond the clinic and the laboratory, Dr. Thompson is a passionate educator dedicated to mentoring medical students and residents. Across all his work, his overarching goal is to help patients better understand and confront neurologic disease through the translation of high-dimensional data into meaningful clinical insights.