Megha Garg, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Megha Garg, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Associate Chief of Hospital Medicine at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Dr. Garg’s clinical work includes attending on the inpatient teaching service, surgical co-management, and the Faculty Hospitalist Service. She is affiliate faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Garg previously served as the UCSF Co-Director of the UCSF/UC Law Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy, focused on collaborative efforts between the two institutions on education, research, and clinical training and service.

She is an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, with a focus on residency curriculum and faculty development. Previously she was the course director for a first-year UCSF School of Medicine course titled “Health, Society, and the Individual,” focused on health equity, social justice and health systems science content, and helped the efforts of building an anti-oppression curriculum at the medical school. Her scholarly work includes research on physician advocacy, social justice education, and care of socially complex patients.
Education
2017 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Chief Residency, - Internal Medicine, Brown University
Residency, - Internal Medicine, Brown University
MPH, - Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
MD, - , University of Miami
Honors and Awards
  • Accepted to Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, University of California, San Francisco, 2019
  • Elected Fellow, American College of Physicians, 2018
  • Haffenreffer Family Housestaff Excellence Award, Brown University, 2014
  • Resident of the Month, Brown University, 2013
  • Outstanding Service Award, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 2011
  • Zuckerman Fellow, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 2009-2010
  • Scholarship for Outstanding Accomplishments and Contributions to the University, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 2009
  • Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, University of Miami, 2005
Publications
  1. Albert TJ, Starks H, Harrington W, Akwe J, Allaudeen N, Boggan JC, Carlson MA, Chun J, Cox L, Ehlers E, Alshaeba SE, Elzweig J, Fletcher KE, Garg M, Gasga A, Godwin PO, Hang MT, Jagannath AD, Kaneshiro C, Kwan B, Park JH, Schackmann E, Sehgal R, Sinex N, Smeraglio A, Tuck M, Turbyfill W, Vargas J, Cornia PB. The Evolution of Internal Medicine Chief Residents: A 20-Year Multicenter Study. The American journal of medicine 2024. PMID: 38848984


  2. Garg M, Oliva J, Lu A, Martin M, Hooper S. Hospital-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships for Complex Care Patients: Intersectionality and Ethics Considerations. The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2024. PMID: 38477278


  3. Jones BLH, Garg M, Eniasivam A. Beyond competency: LGBTQ+ history as medical education. Medical education 2023. PMID: 36852943


  4. Garg M, Kompala T, Hurley M, López L. Characterization of Internal Medicine Chief Resident Administrative, Educational, and Clinical Experiences. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2022. PMID: 35319760


  5. Eniasivam A, Medeiros A, Garg M. Addressing Harm and Establishing Trust in Peer Review: Recommendations for Action. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2022. PMID: 35030641


  6. Kucirek N, Studenmund C, Cordero DM, Garg M. A Preclinical Medical School Curriculum on Firearm Violence to Develop Patient Counseling and Foundational Health Policy Skills. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2021. PMID: 34672249


  7. Kenneth Lam, Erika L. Price, Megha Garg, Nate Baskin, Megan Dunchak, Sarah Hooper, Anne Fabiny, Jessica A. Eng. How an Interdisciplinary Care Team Reduces Prolonged Admissions Among Older Patients with Complex Needs NEJM Catalyst 2021. PMID:


  8. Griffiths EP, Tong MS, Teherani A, Garg M. First year medical student perceptions of physician advocacy and advocacy as a core competency: A qualitative analysis. Medical teacher 2021. PMID: 34151706


  9. Borowsky H, Morinis L, Garg M. Disability and Ableism in Medicine: A Curriculum for Medical Students. MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2021. PMID: 33511270


  10. Garg M, Miles RC, Rodriguez F, Stetson G. Left Ventricular Compression and Hypotension Due to Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction. Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS 2020. PMID: 33424215


  11. Garg M, Eniasivam A, Satterfield J, Norton B, Austin E, Dohan D. Rapid transition of a preclinical health systems science and social justice course to remote learning in the time of coronavirus. Medical education online 2020. PMID: 32822280


  12. Rodriguez F, Ngo S, Baird G, Balla S, Miles R, Garg M. Readability of Online Patient Educational Materials for Coronary Artery Calcium Scans and Implications for Health Disparities. Journal of the American Heart Association 2020. PMID: 32865121


  13. Garg M, Wray CM. Hospital Medicine Management in the Time of COVID-19: Preparing for a Sprint and a Marathon. Journal of hospital medicine 2020. PMID: 32379037


  14. Miles RC, Choi P, Baird GL, Dibble EH, Lamb L, Garg M, Lehman C. Will the Effect of New Federal Breast Density Legislation Be Diminished by Currently Available Online Patient Educational Materials? Academic radiology 2019. PMID: 31839567


  15. Garg M, Tseng Z, Baird GL, Egan P, McGarry K. Attitudes Toward Advocacy Do Not Match Actions: A Cross-sectional Survey of Residents and Fellows. Rhode Island medical journal (2013) 2019. PMID: 30943670


  16. Miles RC, Baird GL, Choi P, Falomo E, Dibble EH, Garg M. Readability of Online Patient Educational Materials Related to Breast Lesions Requiring Surgery. Radiology 2019. PMID: 30694156


  17. Long T, Chaiyachati K, Bosu O, Sircar S, Richards B, Garg M, McGarry K, Solomon S, Berman R, Curry L, Moriarty J, Huot S. Why Aren't More Primary Care Residents Going into Primary Care? A Qualitative Study. Journal of general internal medicine 2016. PMID: 27488970


  18. Hutchinson N, Baird GL, Garg M. Examining the Reading Level of Internet Medical Information for Common Internal Medicine Diagnoses. The American journal of medicine 2016. PMID: 26829438


  19. Garg M, Lee BE, McGarry K, Mangray S, Castillo JJ. CD20-negative diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presenting with lactic acidosis. American journal of hematology 2015. PMID: 25417998


  20. Garg M, Drolet BC, Tammaro D, Fischer SA. Resident duty hours: a survey of internal medicine program directors. Journal of general internal medicine 2014. PMID: 24913004


  21. Wolfe SQ, Garg M, Cumberbatch NM, Furst C, Martinez M, Hernandez M, Reimers R, Berrocal Y, Gómez-Marín O, Eaton MJ. Optimizing the transplant dose of a human neuronal cell line graft to treat SCI pain in the rat. Neuroscience letters 2007. PMID: 17306458