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Movement Disorders Team
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Director, Stanford Movement Disorders Center
Dr. Helen Brontë-Stewart is the Director of the Stanford Comprehensive Movement Disorders Center.
She is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Neurology and Neurosciences and by courtesy Neurosurgery.
Dr. Brontë-Stewart received her bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics (1st Class Hons) from the University of York, England. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar and received her MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Following her residency in Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, she moved to the University of California, San Francisco where she did a Fellowship in Movement Disorders. She received a 5-year NIH Physician-Scientist Award to pursue her research in motor control in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Lisberger at the University of California, San Francisco, where her interests focused on the cellular basis of motor learning.
Dr. Bronte-Stewart's expertise in single neuronal electrophysiology in primates has been transferred to the operating room where she performs the intraoperative microelectrode mapping of basal ganglia nuclei during deep brain stimulation procedures for the treatment of Movement Disorders in patients with Movement Disorders.
Director, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Jaimie M. Henderson, M.D., is director of the Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery program at Stanford. Dr. Henderson is an expert in the surgical treatment of movement disorders and chronic pain, and is active in research to improve stereotactic navigation and the efficacy of neuromodulatory therapies for movement disorders, pain, and other neurological diseases.
Dr. Henderson joined the Stanford Movement Disorders team in 2004, after spending three years developing innovative surgical techniques for deep brain stimulator placement at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to this, he started the movement disorders surgery program at St. Louis University in 1995, remaining on the faculty there for six years.
Dr. Henderson received his MD from Chicago’s Rush Medical College in 1988, completed his residency in Neurosurgery at Saint Louis University in 1995 and completed fellowship training in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery before joining the faculty at St. Louis University. He is presently Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and, By Courtesy, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Bruce C Hill, PhD
Medical Physicist
Bruce C. Hill, PhD performs calculations to assist the interoperative navigation during DBS surgery and oversees technical quality assurance for the program.
He insures that the various computer, electronic, and mechanical systems used in the clinic and operating room are operating correctly. He also collaborates with a number of the program’s neurological and neurosurgical research efforts.
Dr. Hill received his BA in Physics (summa cum laude) from Rice University, his doctorate in Applied Physics from Stanford University and his residency training in Medical Physics from the University of California, San Francisco.
He also performed biomedical research and instrument development for fifteen years as a Principal Investigator on National Institutes of Health grants and was a Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.
Pediatric Movement Disorders Specialist
Dr. Terry Sanger's laboratory is directed toward making precise measurements of the arm movements in children with difficulty moving their arms. In particular, he is studying children with dystonia, athetosis, chorea, and other movements that are frequently seen in cerebral palsy and other childhood brain diseases.
Dr. Sanger uses computer analysis based on mathematical models of movement in order to learn how to diagnose different types of movement problems. In addition, by using a sophisticated video imaging system with real-time display of the child's movements, he is investigating the possibility of training children to improve particular arm movements in order to gain better control. The equipment in Dr. Sanger's laboratory includes three-dimensional motion capture and sensitive detectors of muscle activity, as well as powerful graphics displays and video processing. The goal is to learn to diagnose, classify, and treat children with motor disorders affecting arm use.
Simon Tan, PhD
Neuropsychologist
Simon Tan, PhD (staff neuropsychologist) received his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College, doctorate in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University, and completed a pre-doctoral internship at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Tan also completed a post-doctoral fellowship specializing in clinical neuropsychology in both adult inpatient and outpatient settings at the Behavioral Neurology Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Cambridge Hospital at Harvard.
Wendy Cole, RN, MN
Nurse Coordinator
Wendy Cole, RN, MN is a Clinical Nurse Coordinator in Movement Disorders. She graduated from Baylor University Nursing School and received her master’s degree from UCLA in 1992.
She has worked extensively in different areas of neurology – starting with neurosurgery/trauma ICU for ten years, then as a nurse coordinator with epilepsy patients and then as a nursing instructor in an Associate Degree Program.
Wendy helps coordinate surgery referrals and the pre-surgical work-ups, provides patient education, assists movement disorder patients in the clinic and programs the deep brain stimulators on the post-operative patients. She has taken several advanced education courses on programming of deep brain stimulators.
Joan Keane, RN, MHSL
Nurse Coordinator
Joan Keane is a Nurse Coordinator in the Movement Disorder Program. She assists with the clinical evaluation and coordination of services for clinic patients, coordinates the Botox clinic, drug studies and assists patients through their surgical experience.
Joan received her nursing degree and master’s degree in Health System’s Leadership from the University of San Francisco. She is certified in Case Management and in Continuity of Care.
Joan brings extensive experience to the Movement Disorder Program. In previous positions of case manager, community health nurse, staff nurse, and inservice educator, she developed expertise in patient assessment, community and insurance resources and patient and staff education.
Amy Andrzejewski, BS
Research Coordinator
Amy Andrzejewski graduated from Santa Clara University with a BS in Biology.
Amy has worked in the Stanford Movement Disorders lab since September 2004.
She is the Clinical Trial Coordinator and also conducts the quantitative testing when patients are referred to the lab.
Devi Khalsa, PA-C
Physician Assistant
Devi joined Stanford Hospital & Clinics Department of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences’ Movement Disorders Program in 2006. She is a 1980 graduate of the Drexel University/Hahnemann Medical College PA Program and brings to the program more than twenty years of patient care experience, and twelve years of working with patients with brain and neurological disorders. She most recently worked in consultative Neurology and with the nation’s largest MDA/ALS program under the leadership of Stanley H. Appel, MD at the Methodist Neurological Institute in the Texas Medical Center, Houston; at the University of Texas-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Neuro-oncology, Consultation-Liason Psychiatry, Palliative Care and Pain Management, and Special Procedures; and in Geriatric Psychiatry at the Michael DeBakey Houston VA Medical Center.
As the principle contact for the surgical side of the Movement Disorders Program, she collaborates closely with Dr. Jaimie Henderson and the Neurology team to guide patients and their families through the pre-operative to post-operative aspects of the program.