Dr. Tuong-Vi Tran’s academic journey began at Portland State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry in 2012 as a highly selective Gates Millennium Scholar. She subsequently attended the University of Colorado School of Medicine, earning her Medical Doctor (MD) degree in 2017. During her medical studies, she was a Department of Medicine Research and Equity in Academic Medicine (DREAM) Scholar in 2013 and received the Mentored Scholarly Activity Student Choice Award in 2017. Additionally, she dedicated a clinical research year from 2015 to 2016 to serve as a Clinical Research Coordinator for Phase 3 Spinraza (Nusinersen) clinical trials for Spinal Muscular Atrophy at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Following medical school, Dr. Tran completed a Pediatrics Residency at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Children’s Hospital Orange County (CHOC) from 2017 to 2019. She then advanced into specialized training at the same institutions, completing a Pediatric Neurology Residency from 2019 to 2021, and subsequently serving as Chief Resident of Pediatric Neurology from 2021 to 2022. In this leadership role, she organized educational lectures, mentored junior residents, and authored revisions for the resident handbook, including status epilepticus protocols. Dr. Tran finalized her clinical training with a Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship at UCI and CHOC from 2022 to 2023.

Since August 2023, Dr. Tran has practiced as a Pediatric Neurologist and Epileptologist at Children’s Hospital Orange County, while simultaneously holding an academic appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She is a Board-Certified Pediatric Neurologist and a Board-Eligible Pediatric Epileptologist whose clinical interests focus heavily on epilepsy, EEG reading, and epilepsy health equity. Actively engaged in clinical research, she served as the Principal Investigator for a now-completed 2025-2026 UCB study evaluating the safety of fenfluramine (Fintepla) for early-onset pediatric epilepsy syndromes. Fluent in Vietnamese, Dr. Tran maintains active professional memberships with the American Epilepsy Society and the American Academy of Neurology.