The Stanford Comprehensive Neurology & Neurosurgery Clinic in Emeryville
The Stanford Comprehensive Neurology & Neurosurgery Clinic in Emeryville offers a broad range of neurologic expertise and care to the East Bay population. Our faculty manage a large range of neurologic conditions and offer an academic perspective to the diagnosis and treatment of our patients. We work closely with our local primary care, pain management, neurosurgical, and orthopedic surgery colleagues to provide a coordinated approach to patient care. Additionally, because our faculty see patients both in Palo Alto and at the Emeryville location, we have close relationships to neurology subspecialists in Palo Alto and coordinate with subspecialty care as needed.
In addition to clinic services, Stanford Neurology in Emeryville is also equipped with a Neurodiagnostic Lab with EMG/NCS (Electromyography/Nerve Conduction Study) and EEG (Electroencephalogram) capabilities. These tests can be performed to diagnose and direct treatment of neurologic conditions for our patients.
Stanford Emeryville Neurology & Neurosurgery Clinic
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 Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Dr. Lin 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, and focal neuropathy. Additionally, she is interested in medical education and developing a practical framework for teaching neurology and neurophysiology to medical students and neurology residents.
She earned her medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where was awarded a Dean's Scholarship and the Dr. Tryphena Humphrey Student Award in Neurology. She completed neurology residency at the Harvard Neurology Program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston where she served as an administrative chief resident in her final year and was awarded the Michael Ronthal Resident Teaching Award. She then went on to complete her neuromuscular medicine fellowship at Stanford.
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.