Sarah R. Martin, PhD

Dr. Nicolás M. Phielipp is a fellowship-trained UCI Health neurologist who specializes in the care and treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease, dystonias, tremor, Huntington’s disease and other movement disorders. He offers physical and electrophysiological diagnostic procedures and a range of treatment options, including pharmacological therapies, botulinum toxin, deep brain stimulation and lifestyle modifications. Phielipp's research interests include the management of Parkinson's disease and task-specific dystonias, such as writer's cramp and musician's, golfer's or tennis player's dystonia. He also is interested in developing techniques to better diagnose Parkinson's disease, understanding the mechanisms involved in deep brain stimulation, and improving the diagnosis and management of movement disorders in general. Phielipp's one-year fellowship at the Favaloro Foundation-Institute for Neurosciences in Argentina was under the mentorship of Oscar Gershanik. His three-year fellowship in neurophysiology and movement disorders was under the mentorship of Drs. Robert Chen and Anthony Lang at the University of Toronto. He also has participated in several research projects involving transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of mood and motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the mechanism of deep brain stimulation in cervical dystonia, the mechanism of action of botulinum toxin in the treatment of writer's cramp and musician's dystonia and the treatment of psychogenic/functional tremor. Phielipp speaks Spanish and French.

Dr. Andy Y. Lee is a board-certified UCI Health cardiologist whose clinical interests include advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, cardiac imaging, metabolic heart health, cardiorenal syndrome and cardio-oncology. Lee received his medical degree from the University of Texas in Houston. He completed an internal medicine residency at Los Angeles County and USC Medical Center, followed by cardiology fellowship at Baylor Scott and White Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He also received fellowship training in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has given presentations at numerous national cardiology conferences, including the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the Heart Failure Society of America and the American College of Cardiology. His publications have appeared in the American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American Heart Association, Cell Death Discovery, Artificial Organs, and the Journal for Biomedical Optics. Lee, who speaks Mandarin and Spanish.