Dr. Lawton graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1990 and has been in practice for 28 years. He completed a residency at St Joseph Hospital. He currently practices at UCSF Medical Center and is affiliated with UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus. Dr. Lawton accepts multiple insurance plans including Aetna, Medicare and Humana. Dr. Lawton is board certified in Neurological Surgery. Dr. Lawton also practices at UCSF Neurological Surgery in San Francisco, CA. In addition to English, Dr. Lawton's practice supports these languages: German, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Polish, French and Korean.