Neurology Medical Group of Diablo Valley

Dr. Leslie Allison Gillum grew up in Virginia and received a BA in Biology from the University of Virginia (1995). At the University of California San Francisco she received her medical degree (2000), served her internship (2002) and neurology residency (2005), and completed a fellowship in Spine Neurology (2006). Her Master’s in Public Health in Epidemiology (2001) was obtained from the University of California Berkeley. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and also the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. From 2005-2009, she worked exclusively as neurology clinical faculty at UCSF and participated in NIH-based research. In 2009, after realizing she wanted to solely focus on patient care and stop her daily commute to SF from the East Bay, she joined the Neurology Medical Group of Diablo Valley as a full-time general neurologist. She maintains close UCSF ties and volunteers her time as an Assistant Clinical Professor: working 2 days per month in the Neurology Clinic, attending on the inpatient neurology consult service, and teaching medical students. The spine neurology subspecialty helps orthopedic spine surgeons and neurosurgeons, generalist and rehabilitation physicians, and patients determine whether neurologic symptoms should be attributed to anatomic spine disease (disc herniation, spinal stenosis, etc) versus other neurologic illnesses.