Sharon Chiang, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Sharon Chiang is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Epilepsy at UCSF. She received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine, her PhD in Statistics from Rice University, her epilepsy fellowship at UCSF, and her post-doctoral training in experimental neuroscience and hippocampal electrophysiology in the Frank lab at UCSF. Her research focus is on cellular circuit mechanisms of memory and learning impairment in epilepsy and circuit-based therapies for memory modulation, with parallel research on stimulation paradigms to improve the efficacy of neuromodulation to treat seizures in epilepsy.
2025 ANA-Persyst IDEAS Professional Development Award Recipient