 She is the author of 300 peer-reviewed articles and 50 chapters and has won several awards as a physician, researcher, and professor.Chung helped to initiate a new form of newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy which is used nationally, and was the plaintiff in the supreme court case which prevents patenting of genes.Her research "relates to the molecular genetics of obesity and diabetes in rodents and humans, the genetic basis of congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, long QT Syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, endocrinopathies, congenital diaphragmatic hernias, cleft lip/cleft palate, seizures, mental retardation, inherited metabolic conditions and breast and pancreatic cancer susceptibility."