Fitness and Wellness Center

The Congress Medical Fitness & Wellness Center can guide you to eat better and live well

• Feel stronger - physically and mentally - through better nutrition.

• Shed the extra pounds that you've been carrying around for years - and keep them off for life.

• Learn how "functional foods" can help with diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, ulcers, and other chronic diseases.
• Learn how nutrition can vastly enhance your sports performance, as well as recovery from pregnancy, cancer or other physical challenges.

Dr. Hong 

Dr Hong earned his B.S. degree in Bioenginerring at UCLA and his medical degree at Harvard Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California before completing a fellowship in clinical nutrition at UCLA School of Medicine. He was the pretigious STAR Scholarship, which allowed him to complete his Ph.D. studies. In 2006, Dr. Hong identified a novel fat stem cell that contributes to fat tissue growth. Based on this discovery, current therapeutics is being developed to target this unique stem cell for the treatment of obesity.

Dr. Hong is the author for more than 100 scholarly papers, presentations, and reviews. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals and is frequently invited to speak about Metabolic Syndrome and obesity therapeutics at national events such as the annual meeting of the Obesity Society.

Executive Director

Center for Human Nutrition, Huntington Hospital and Medical Foundation

November 2008 – Present

Director, Resnick ImmunoNutrition Laboratory

UCLA School of Medicine

Health, Wellness and Fitness industry
2002 – October 2008 (6 years)

Harvard Medical School

MD PhD, Medicine
1995 – 1999

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