At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), she served as Assistant Researcher for a number of NIH-funded studies. Her research interests include sleep physiology and treatment and management of epilepsy. Dr. Gong’s work in both sleep and epilepsy were recognized in over a dozen publications in prestigious peer reviewed journals and honored with a Trainee Research Merit Award from the Sleep Research Society and Young Investigator Award from the American Epilepsy Society, respectively. Saman Hazany M.D.