She is the Director of the Sleep Fellowship program and supervises residents and fellows in sleep disorders, epilepsy, and electroencephalography. Her research interests are in the interface of sleep and epilepsy. They include the relationship of interictal epileptiform discharges and epileptic seizures to sleep, the effects of vagus nerve stimulation on sleep in epilepsy, the relationship of sleep deprivation and epilepsy, and the impact of treating sleep disorders on seizure control in patients with epilepsy. Her work is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NINDS), the University of Michigan General Clinical Research Center, and industry.