Cameron Dietiker, MD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Cameron Dietiker, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology where she treats people with movement disorders in the Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center at the Mt. Zion campus as well as the Memory and Aging Center at the Mission Bay campus.

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She is a graduate of UCSD where she obtained a degree in psychology and a minor in organic chemistry. Following this, she spent two years doing research for the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) under the Veterans Medical Research Foundation. She then acquired her medical degree from NYMC and completed both her neurology residency training and a movement disorders fellowship at UCSF.

As a movement disorders specialist, Dr. Dietiker's clinical practice encompasses Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, ataxia, tremor, and dystonia, among other various disorders. She is knowledgeable in the administration of botulinum toxin as well as deep brain stimulation (DBS) programming for the treatment of movement disorders. Her current research endeavors include clinic trials in Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and essential tremor.

Awards

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• Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society, New York Medical College, 2011
• Gold Humanism Honor Society, New York Medical College, 2010

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 06/2021
• Fellowship Movement Disorders University of California, San Francisco 06/2017
• Residency Neurology University of California, San Francisco 06/2015
• MD Medicine New York Medical College 06/2011
• BS Psychology University of California, San Diego 06/2005

Interests

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• Botulinum toxin injections
• Atypical parkinsonism
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• Essential Tremor
• Ataxia
• Huntington's disease
• Dystonia
• Parkinson's disease

Websites

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• Memory and Aging Center (memory.ucsf.edu)
• Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center (surgicalmovementdisorders.ucsf.edu)
• UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences (weill.ucsf.edu)
• UCSF Department of Neurology (neurology.ucsf.edu)

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
VideoconferencingPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresTransportation of PatientsTelemedicinePersonality InventoryCerebellar AtaxiaSeverity of Illness IndexTranscutaneous Electric Nerve StimulationComputers, HandheldNeurofilament ProteinsSpinocerebellar AtaxiasDisease ProgressionSelf DisclosureCerebellar DiseasesEssential Tremor

• Underlying Tremor Improvement with Consistent Use of Transcutaneous Afferent Patterned Stimulation in Patients with Essential Tremor.
  Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) 2026 Isaacson SH, Peckham E, Tse W, Petrossian MT, Soileau MJ, Lew M, Dietiker C, Luthra N, Agarwal P, Dhall R, Morgan J, Shamim EA, Shill HA, Pagan FL, Khemani P, Tate J, Luo L, Ondo W, Hallett M, Lu C, …
• Prevalence, Severity, and Progression of Cerebellar Cognitive-Affective Syndrome in Patients With Spinocerebellar Ataxias.
  Neurology 2025 Petit E, López Domínguez D, Marelli C, Sayah S, Pulst SM, Faber J, Oz G, Paulson HL, Ashizawa T, READISCA Consortium, Tezenas du Montcel S, Durr A, Coarelli G
• The Natural History Study and Biomarker Collection of the Clinical Research Consortium for the Study of Cerebellar Ataxia (CRC-SCA).
  Cerebellum (London, England) 2025 Lin Y, Amokrane N, Worley S, Moore LR, Rosen A, Crespo LP, Trace K, Ashizawa T, Billnitzer A, Perlman S, Fisher A, Bushara K, Geschwind MD, Dietiker C, Gomez CM, Padmanaban M, Opal P, Akhtar RS, …
• Evolving Perspectives on α-Synuclein Testing.
  JAMA neurology 2025 Dietiker C, Tanner C
• Spinocerebellar Ataxia Progression Measured with the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure of Ataxia.
  Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2025 Burt AL, L'Italien G, Perlman SL, Rosenthal LS, Kuo SH, Ashizawa T, Zesiewicz T, Dietiker C, Opal P, Duquette A, Wilmot GR, Shakkottai VG, Gomez CM, Srinivasan SR, Paulson H, Geschwind MD, Worley S, …
• The Cerebellar Cognitive Affective/Schmahmann Syndrome Scale in Spinocerebellar Ataxias.
  Cerebellum (London, England) 2024 Selvadurai LP, Perlman SL, Ashizawa T, Wilmot GR, Onyike CU, Rosenthal LS, Shakkottai VG, Paulson HL, Subramony SH, Bushara KO, Kuo SH, Dietiker C, Geschwind MD, Nelson AB, Gomez CM, Opal P, Zesiewicz…
• A low-cost, tablet-based option for prehospital neurologic assessment: The iTREAT Study.
  Neurology 2016 Chapman Smith SN, Govindarajan P, Padrick MM, Lippman JM, McMurry TL, Resler BL, Keenan K, Gunnell BS, Mehndiratta P, Chee CY, Cahill EA, Dietiker C, Cattell-Gordon DC, Smith WS, Perina DG, Solenski …
• The ability of the Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol (SRE) Scale to predict alcohol-related outcomes five years later.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2007 Schuckit MA, Smith TL, Danko GP, Pierson J, Hesselbrock V, Bucholz KK, Kramer J, Kuperman S, Dietiker C, Brandon R, Chan G