Faculty
Adult Neurology
Susan Shaw Huang, MD
Neurology Chair
Epilepsy
Bijal Mehta, MD
Multiple Sclerosis
Vascular Neurology
Margaret Adler, MD
Neurology Program Director
Neuromuscular Medicine
Edward Chang, MD, PhD
Clinical Neurophysiology
Fellowship Program Director
Epilepsy
Kimberly Pargeon, MD, MA, FAES
Director of Outpatient Clinics
Epilepsy
Following residency, Dr. Pargeon completed a two-year fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian in New York City in 2011. After her fellowship, she initially joined the neurology faculty at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx. She subsequently joined the neurology faculty at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and mostly recently was a member of the neurology faculty at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, where she was the director of the epilepsy monitoring unit and for the training clinics for the neurology residents and fellows. She recently re-located to Los Angeles, California, and has now joined the neurology faculty here at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Pargeon is board certified in Neurology and in Epilepsy. She has special interests in the treatments for medically refractory epilepsy and in trainee education.
Kassi Kronfeld, MD
Stroke Director & Director of
Inpatient Neurology
Neurocritical Care
Vascular Neurology
Neeta Garg, MD
Health Sciences Clinical Professor
Department of Neurology
Ellen Chang Wong, MD
Attending Physician
Phoebe Johnson-Black, MD
Associate Program Director
Neurocritical Care
Pediatric Neurology
Agnes Chen, MD
Pediatric Neurology Chief
Megan Langille, MD
Associate Program Director
Kenneth Huff, MD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, UCLA
Pediatric Neurology Chief
Emeritus
Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
Dr. Michelle Armacost
Director of the Acute Neurology Unit
Department of Neurology
Antonio Moya, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Neurology at
the Keck School of Medicine of USC
Dr. Moya was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in the Philippines before medical school, specifically working on establishing telemedicine stroke care in this archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands. Dr. Moya has primarily focused on the health of the Filipino and Asian Pacific Islander global community, having served as one of the past medical directors of the UCSF Mabuhay Health Center and Director of the UCSF Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA). Antonio has partnered in Los Angeles with the Filipino American Service Group Inc. (FASGI), UCLA Pilipino Alumni Association, and UCLA Pilipinos for Community Health, having been awarded multiple community and national grants to leverage media tools to improve health behaviors related to stroke and other non-communicable diseases.
He is interested in stroke prevention and treatment among under-resourced communities, telemedicine to facilitate neurology care and referrals for immigrant, non-English speaking patients, and Asian Pacific Islander immigrant health disparities.
Hui (Tory) Gong, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Keck Hospital of USC
USC Norris Cancer Hospital
Dr. Gong is triple board certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Her primary focus in clinical practice is improving patient’s epilepsy care with expertise in the medical and surgical management of refractory epilepsy. She utilizes an innovative approach with personalized medication programs combined with, localized surgery options and neuromodulation such as vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy patients. She is the Director of Rancho EMU, which has been awarded level 4 center certification from National Association of Epilepsy Centers. She leads the Epilepsy device clinic at Rancho.
Currently, Dr. Gong’s research focuses on pathophysiology of epilepsy and study of status epilepticus. She received the Young Investigator Award from American Epilepsy Society for her work on refractory epilepsy in Infants with Non-accidental Head Injury. Her research interests include the development of new anti-epileptic drugs (AED); she is the Principal Investigator of clinical trials of new AEDs. She has a keen interest in neuromodulation intervention for epilepsy patients, as well as, stroke and rehabilitation patients. She is the co-investigator in the safety and efficacy of the stem cell transplantation in cervical spinal cord injury as well as numerous brain computer interface projects which including encoding arm movement, gait and memory. She has 16 publications on epilepsy, sleep, peripheral neuropathy and brain computer interface. She has received merit awards from varies societies.
VA Long Beach Adult Neurology Faculty
Dr. Neil Maluste
Chief of Neurology VA Long Beach
Stroke Program Director for
Lakewood Regional Medical Center
Department of Neurology
Kristy Hwang, MD
Attending Physician
Neurorehabilitation
Elina Melamed, MD
Craig A German, MD
Neurology
Department of Neurology
Demi Tran, MD
Site Director, Attending Physician |
VA Long Beach
Annabel Wang, MD
Neuromuscular Diagnostic
Laboratory Director | VA Long Beach
Neuromuscular Medicine
An Tran, MD
Attending Physician | VA Long Beach
Movement Disorders