Jeffrey Marc Gelfand MD, MAS

Dr. Jeffrey Gelfand is a neurologist who specializes in caring for patients with a wide range of autoimmune, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative neurological disorders. This includes multiple sclerosis (MS), neurosarcoidosis, encephalitis, meningitis, transverse myelitis, optic neuritis, neuromyelitis optica, central nervous system vasculitis, autoimmune dementias, and encephalopathies, autoimmune cerebellar ataxia, and paraneoplastic neurological syndromes. He also treats neurological problems in people with rheumatological and other systemic inflammatory or medical illnesses.

Gelfand received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He then completed an internship in internal medicine, a residency in neurology, and fellowship training in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology, all at UCSF. Gelfand went on to earn a master's degree in advanced study in clinical research at UCSF. As director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center's Clinical Fellowship Training Program at UCSF, Gelfand trains specialists in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology after their neurology residency. Gelfand received the Robert B. Layzer teaching award in 2014 and an Excellence in Teaching Award from the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators in 2015.