Neurology Faculty
Adult Neurology
Vascular Neurology
Department of Neurology
Dr. Mehta completed his MD from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, Faculty of Medicine. He completed his neurology residency from SUNY Buffalo along with fellowships in Stroke/Cerebrovascular Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Neuroimaging. In the area of stroke and cerebrovascular disease he currently studying how vasogenic edema develops post-stroke using neuroimaging as a guide for initiation of potential treatment and prognosis post-stroke. In the area of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology, his research interests involve Vitamin A and Vitamin D and its effect on MS disease progression, remyelination, and epigenetic changes in MS patients using clinic and neuroimaging techniques.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Adler is a graduate of Emory University School of Medicine. She completed neurology residency at UCLA Medical Center and neuromuscular fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is director of the EMG lab at Harbor and is a core faculty for the neurophysiology fellowship. She has a special interest in disorders including affecting the peripheral nervous system including myopathies, Myasthenia Gravis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She has a strong interest in medical education.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Chang graduated from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and went on to complete neurology residency and Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy fellowships at Ronald Reagan Medical Center-UCLA. He is director of the EEG lab at Harbor-UCLA and the director of the Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship. His interests include transitions of care in epilepsy patients and management of medically refractory epilepsy.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Pargeon is an Attending Physician in Neurology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. After receiving her medical degree from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 2005, she completed her Neurology residency training at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland in 2009.
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.
Vascular Neurology
Department of Neurology
Dr. Kronfeld completed her Masters degree at Tufts University, followed by her MD at Oregon Health and Science University. She completed her Neurology residency as well as Neurocritical Care and Vascular Neurology Fellowships at Stanford University. She is Director of Inpatient Neurology and Associate Stroke Director at Harbor-UCLA. Her interests include imaging in neurovascular disease, medical education, and quality improvement in the neurosciences.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Chui has many years of experience in the field of neuromuscular medicine. He has devoted his life to working with residents. A former resident of South America, Dr. Chui is fluent in Spanish which comes as a great surprise to the many patients he sees at Harbor-UCLA. He is an amazing resource to residents and provides a knowledge gained through years of practicing neurology.
He enjoys his free time going to new restaurants and traveling with his wife.
Neurorehabilitation
Department of Neurology
Dr. Wong graduated from the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, with a scholarly concentration in Medical Humanities. She went on to complete neurology residency at USC and fellowships in neurorehabilitation at UCLA and neurobehavior at USC. She now provides neurobehavior care for county patients at Harbor-UCLA, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, and LAC+USC. Her goal is to provide holistic care for all her patients, and her interests include neurodegenerative disease and the use of multidisciplinary approaches to care for patients with dementia, as well as caring for patients with neurorehabilitation needs.
Pediatric Neurology
Department of Neurology
Dr. Agnes Chen is a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to medical school, she was a transcranial doppler technician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed her pediatric residency and adult and child neurology residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. During residency, she began doing research in neurogenetics, specifically lysosomal storage disorders. She is the principal investigator of a clinical trial of intrathecal enzyme replacement in attenuated mucopolysaccharidosis type I. She joined the faculty of the Division of Pediatric Neurology at Harbor-UCLA in 2007.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Megan Langille is from Long Island, NY. She completed her medical degree at University of Southern California, pediatric residency training at Harbor UCLA and child neurology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She developed an interest in autoimmune conditions of the central nervous system and was awarded a clinical fellowship from the National MS Society which she completed at USC MS Center. She joined the Harbor UCLA faculty in 2016.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Kenneth Huff is a graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School, where he also did his pediatric residency. He then completed residency in neurology at Children’s Hospital in Boston and he completely fellowships in neurological chemistry and neurological pathology. His research interests include gliosis neurobiology, nervous system growth factor mechanism and processing, seizure disorders and epidemiology of acute flaccid paralysis.
Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
Dr. Michelle Armacost
Dr. Armacost was born and raised in Santa Monica, CA. She attended UCLA where she majored in French and Linguistics. After deciding to pursue a career in medicine, she attended the Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program at Johns Hopkins University. She attended medical school at USC and stayed on to complete Neurology residency and Epilepsy fellowship there. Following her graduation from fellowship, she joined her mentors Dr. Susan Shaw and Dr. Tory Gong at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center as a full-time neurologist and epileptologist. She currently serves as the Director of the Acute Neurology Unit and cares for patients both in the outpatient and inpatient settings, including patients admitted to the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. She is board certified in both Neurology and Epilepsy, and her interests include the medical and surgical management of patients with intractable epilepsy. She loves working with and teaching medical students, residents and fellows.
Department of Neurology
Antonio Moya, MD MPH is a Board Certified Neurologist, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and cares for patients at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center as well as High Desert Regional Health Center. Antonio co-founded the Council of Young Filipino Americans in Medicine (CYFAM) in 2019.  He completed his neurology residency at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Prior to residency, he graduated from the UCSF School of Medicine as a PRIME-US Scholar and also completed his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health with a focus on Global Health in Asia.
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.
Department of Neurology
Neeta Garg, MD, Health Sciences Clinical Professor. Dr. Neeta Garg is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Neurology at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Garg obtained her MD degree from SMS Medical College, Jaipur, India, did an Internship and Neurology residency in India and a second Neurology residency at Seton Hall/JFK Medical Center. Dr. Garg was an Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo, and then an Assistant and Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts. She was then an Associate and full Professor at University of Miami. Dr. Garg has been very active in the American Academy of Neurology, serving on the Neurology Education Committee, Axon Registry Subcommittee, MS Section, and several important workgroups overseeing MS quality measure development, drug approval policy guidance, efforts to optimize registry race and ethnicity data collection, and telehealth visit template creation. Dr. Garg has a tremendous record of committee and administrative service at UMass and University of Miami (UM), serving (among many other elements) on the medical student admissions committee, faculty and leadership search committee, UM medical school faculty council and UM faculty senate. Dr. Garg has extensive background in quality improvement (QI) leading several QI projects and initiatives at UM. She has been involved in many curricular development activities for residency program and medical school at UM in her role as course co-director for pre-clinical neurology and QI curricula. Dr. Garg has been site PI on numerous clinical trials in the MS field. She has published extensively in these areas.
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USC Norris Cancer Hospital
Department of Neurology
Dr. Hui (Tory) Gong obtained her Medical Degree from Hunan Medical University’s western medicine program partnered with the Yale-China Association, which is closely affiliated with the Yale University School of Medicine. She then enhanced her medical knowledge with medical student clinical clerkship training from New York Medical College before joining the medicine and neurology residencies at University of New Mexico. She completed her Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy fellowships in Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (Keck-USC). She is currently an attending physician specialist in neurology and Director of Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) in the department of neurology at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. She is also an adjunct assistant professor at the department of neurology at Keck-USC. She supervises the USC neurology residents and is the site fellowship director for the epilepsy in Rancho Los Amigos 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.
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VA Long Beach Adult Neurology Faculty
Department of Neurology
Dr. Rahila Ansari is the new chief of Neurology at the Long Beach VA. Dr. Ansari is dedicated to translating engineering solutions into the clinical setting to help restore function to patients with neurological deficits. After graduate school in biomedical and polymer engineering, she obtained her medical degree from CWRU School of Medicine. Dr. Ansari completed her residency at John Hopkins Hospital, where she was a Neurology Chief Resident. Following fellowship training in Neuromuscular Diseases at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, she became faculty at the school of medicine. Her research on orthotics for patients with inclusion body myositis has been highlighted by the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association (AOPA) as a keynote lecture at the annual meeting, and as a spotlight article in their journal, the O&P Almanac.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Melamed earned her medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. She completed her neurology residency at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in multiple sclerosis/neuroimmunology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She has special interest in misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis as well as headache medicine.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Maluste completed his Neurology residency and a Vascular Neurology fellowship at UCLA. He subsequently spent 6 years with Southland Neurologic Institute in Long Beach before transitioning to the Tibor Rubin Long Beach VA Medical Center as a staff Neurologist in 2023. He currently serves as the Stroke Program Director for Lakewood Regional Medical Center and is also on staff with the VA’s National Telestroke Program. In his free time, Dr. Maluste enjoys relaxing with his family and (against his better judgement) watching the Lakers.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Craig Alex German, MD is a neurologist in Mission Hills, CA specializing in neurology (brain & spinal cord disease). He graduated from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School. Dr. Craig Alex German, MD is affiliated with VA Long Beach Medical Center and Veterans Health Administration (VA).
Department of Neurology
Dr. Tran earned her medical degree at New York Medical College. She completed a neurology residency at UCI Medical Center in California, followed by a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology with an emphasis in epilepsy at UCI Medical Center. Her clinical interests include medical and surgical treatment of refractory epilepsy.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Schreiber is the chief of neurology at the VA Long Beach Health Care system and site director for the residency program.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Tran grew up in Southern California. She obtained her medical degree from Howard University. She went on to complete her neurology residency and two year follow ship in Movement Disorders at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. She has expertise in Deep Brain Stimulation for the treatment of various Movement Disorders. She does Botulinum toxin injection in dystonia, spasticity, sialorrhea, and chronic migraine. She has special interest in ultrasound guided Botulinum toxin injection and research in the Parkinson Disease.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Fisher was Chair of the UCI Department of Neurology from 1998-2006, during which time the Department of Neurology entered the Top 10 in NIH Research Funding for neurology departments nationwide. Dr. Fisher established the stroke program at UCI, was Founding Director of the UCI Stroke Center (forerunner of the current UC Irvine Health Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center), and spearheaded the effort that made the stroke program at UCI the first academic stroke program in the country to be certified as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission (JCAHO).
Department of Neurology
Dr. Michael Sy’s focus is in multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases affecting the central nervous system. He received his medical degree and PhD from UC Irvine School of Medicine, and subsequently completed his residency in neurology and fellowship in neuroimmunology at UC Irvine Medical Center. In addition to diagnosing and treating patients, Sy is involved in translational research and clinical trials studying demyelinating autoimmune disease of the central nervous system.
Department of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Dr. Thai completed residency at the University of California, Irvine and completed a Neurodiagnostic fellowship at University of California, Irvine as well. Her special interests are in multiple sclerosis, dementia, and aging.
Department of Neurology
Dr. Murthy takes special interest in neurology resident education at the Long Beach VA and is regularly involved in didactic sessions with them.