Peter-Brian Andersson, MD, PhD

We offer expert neurology consultation services in a client-centered office experience directed first to accurate diagnosis, and thereafter in a partnership, to the achievement and maintenance of maximum wellness. I want my clients to be as well as they can possibly be. This office has strong and long-lasting bonds with our patients and it is a great privilege to be able to serve them. 

Dr. Andersson graduated cum laude in medicine from the University of Cape Town in 1986. The year after he completed a 1-year internship in internal medicine, surgery and obstetrics and gynecology at Groote Schuur Hospital, where the first heart transplant was done. In 1988, he earned an honors degree in medical biochemistry at the University of Cape Town. Between 1988 and 1991, he obtained a D.Phil in neuroimmunology at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was College Lecturer in Immunology at Christ Church 1989-92. He was Yamanouchi Junior Research Fellow in Cell Biology at Wolfson 1991-2. Junior Research Fellowships are awarded to the top 2% of graduates at Oxford University. Between 1992 and 1997, he completed an internal medicine internship and then neurology residency at the University of California, San Francisco where he also served as Chief Resident. He has completed fellowships in multiple sclerosis at UCSF and in neuromuscular disease at Stanford University. He served on the faculty at Stanford University in the neuromuscular division before moving to the Valley in 1999 and has served this community as both an outpatient and inpatient neurologist for over 20 years. 

He is published in laboratory and clinical neurology. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for the journal Muscle & Nerve. He has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who Science and Engineering. He was selected as a Noticed Expert Network Distinguished Physician. He has been named a Southern California Super Doctor each year 2010-2023, and is listed in Los Angeles Magazine. He has been listed in The Leading Physicians of the World Directory. He served as Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology for over two decades at UCLA, teaching the residents and medical students. He is a Fellow of the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He has special expertise in electrodiagnostic medicine, EMG and EEG. He is Medical Director for California for Stratus Neurodiagnostics, the leading outpatient EEG services company in the U.S. He has training and experience in design and conduct of clinical trials, and has served as Principal and Co-Investigator for dementia trials at The National Research Institute. He has a long experience of medical legal consulting and expert witness services.

Dr. Andersson treats a variety of neurologic symptoms including headache, head injury, numbness, weakness, neck and back and limb pain, seizures, memory disorders and tremors.

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