Laura Sperry, MSN, RN, ANP-C
Laura Sperry, MSN, RN, ANP-C is the DBS Program Director at University of California, Davis Department of Neurology in Northern California. After receiving a BS in genetics from U.C. Davis, a BS in nursing from Johns Hopkins University, and an MSN-ANP from U.C. San Francisco, she began her career as an ANP with U.C. Davis Urogynecology and in 2012 joined the U.C. Davis Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) program. As DBS Program Director, she coordinates the patient journey through the pre-surgical evaluation process and post-surgical stimulator programming utilizing all three DBS systems currently available. Laura is also one of the facilitators for the post-DBS Parkinson support group Staying Healthy with Deep Brain Stimulation.