Marta San Luciano Palenzuela, MD, PhD

Neurologist

Dr. San Luciano is a neurologist specializing in movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, tremor, and myoclonus in both children and adults. She focuses on genetic risk factors, biomarkers, and surgical treatments like deep brain stimulation. Her research explores outcomes and predictors of success in neuromodulation therapies, particularly for dystonia. Trained in Spain and the U.S., she is active in several major neurology and movement disorder organizations.

Honors and Awards
Elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, American Academy of Neurology, 2021
Award for Early Career Faculty, Hellman Family Foundation, 2013
Clinical Research Training Fellowship, American Academy of Neurology, 2008

Publications

Proceedings of the 13th annual deep brain stimulation think tank: the evolving landscape.

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Fleeting CR, Moraud EM, Ugurbil K, Wang DD, Neumann WJ, Kühn AA, Voon V, Pikov V, Welter ML, Fox MD, Rolston JD, Malekmohammadi M, Pathak YJ, Himes LM, Greene D, Holt-Becker AS, Lázaro-Muñoz G, Charney AW, Merner AR, Figee M, Scangos KW, Denison T, Leyde K, Gunduz A, Bronte-Stewart HM, Beck JC, Vanegas-Arroyave N, Luciano MS, Brüggemann N, Foote KD, Okun MS, Wong JK

Five-Year Outcomes from Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus for Parkinson Disease.

JAMA neurology

Starr PA, Shivacharan RS, Goldberg E, Tröster AI, House PA, Giroux ML, Hebb AO, Whiting DM, Leichliter TA, Ostrem JL, Metman LV, Sani S, Karl JA, Siddiqui MS, Tatter SB, Haq IU, Machado AG, Gostkowski M, Tagliati M, Mamelak AN, Okun MS, Foote KD, Moguel-Cobos G, Ponce FA, Pahwa R, Lyons K, Buetefisch CM, Gross RE, Luca CC, Jagid JR, Revuelta GJ, Takacs I, Pourfar MH, Mogilner AY, Duker AP, Mandybur GT, Rosenow JM, Zadikoff C, Khandhar SM, Sedrak M, Phibbs FT, Neimat J, Durphy J, Ramirez-Zamora A, Pilitsis JG, Uitti RJ, Wharen R, Park MC, Vitek JL, INTREPID Study Group

Genotype-Phenotype Relations for the Dystonia-Parkinsonism Genes GLB1, SLC6A3, SLC30A10, SLC39A14, and PLA2G6: MDSGene Systematic Review.

International journal of molecular sciences

Rodriguez-Antiguedad J, Rajalingam R, Krüger C, Teixeira-Dos-Santos D, Sun C, Fernandez-Toledo E, Duarte A, Saffie-Awad P, Barrett MJ, Flanigan JL, Emamikhah M, Patel N, San Luciano M, Cooper C, Bahr N, Oguh O, Buhrmann A, Vater M, Fuchshofen R, Vulinovic F, Parreidt MI, Weissbach A, Lohmann K, Klein C, Marras C, Camargos S

Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Use and LRRK2 Parkinson's Disease Penetrance.

Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society

San Luciano M, Tanner CM, Meng C, Marras C, Goldman SM, Lang AE, Tolosa E, Schüle B, Langston JW, Brice A, Corvol JC, Goldwurm S, Klein C, Brockman S, Berg D, Brockmann K, Ferreira JJ, Tazir M, Mellick GD, Sue CM, Hasegawa K, Tan EK, Bressman S, Saunders-Pullman R, Michael J. Fox Foundation LRRK2 Cohort Consortium

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation with a multiple independent constant current-controlled device in Parkinson's disease (INTREPID): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, sham-controlled study.

The Lancet. Neurology

Vitek JL, Jain R, Chen L, Tröster AI, Schrock LE, House PA, Giroux ML, Hebb AO, Farris SM, Whiting DM, Leichliter TA, Ostrem JL, San Luciano M, Galifianakis N, Verhagen Metman L, Sani S, Karl JA, Siddiqui MS, Tatter SB, Ul Haq I, Machado AG, Gostkowski M, Tagliati M, Mamelak AN, Okun MS, Foote KD, Moguel-Cobos G, Ponce FA, Pahwa R, Nazzaro JM, Buetefisch CM, Gross RE, Luca CC, Jagid JR, Revuelta GJ, Takacs I, Pourfar MH, Mogilner AY, Duker AP, Mandybur GT, Rosenow JM, Cooper SE, Park MC, Khandhar SM, Sedrak M, Phibbs FT, Pilitsis JG, Uitti RJ, Starr PA

Parkinson disease phenotype in Ashkenazi Jews with and without LRRK2 G2019S mutations.

Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society

Alcalay RN, Mirelman A, Saunders-Pullman R, Tang MX, Mejia Santana H, Raymond D, Roos E, Orbe-Reilly M, Gurevich T, Bar Shira A, Gana Weisz M, Yasinovsky K, Zalis M, Thaler A, Deik A, Barrett MJ, Cabassa J, Groves M, Hunt AL, Lubarr N, San Luciano M, Miravite J, Palmese C, Sachdev R, Sarva H, Severt L, Shanker V, Swan MC, Soto-Valencia J, Johannes B, Ortega R, Fahn S, Cote L, Waters C, Mazzoni P, Ford B, Louis E, Levy O, Rosado L, Ruiz D, Dorovski T, Pauciulo M, Nichols W, Orr-Urtreger A, Ozelius L, Clark L, Giladi N, Bressman S, Marder KS