Dr. Pan is a Chinese American. She was graduated from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College and left China for New Orleans in 1993 to go through the Tulane University Neuroscience PhD training program. She then completed Neurology residency in 2000 and stayed at Tulane as a faculty member while joining Ochsner as a part-time staff physician. She became a full professor of neuroscience at LSU - Pennington Biomedical in 2007, and continued her part-time practice at Ochsner till the end of 2014. She took a year of unpaid sabbatical in 2009 to renew sleep medicine training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School and to venture into a new research direction on sleep brain health. After publishing more than 160 papers and contributing active service to the research community, Dr. Pan recently left her two part-time positions and established the Biopotentials Sleep Center. She is experienced in treating all aspects of sleep disorders, operating sleep labs to assure the highest quality of service, and promoting sleep health education in the community. Her non-medical interests include world travel, hiking, gardening, birding, reading, cooking, and taking adult-learning courses.