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Megha Garg

Assistant Professor, UCSF and Interim Co-Director of the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy

Bio

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 Consortium, focused on collaborative efforts between the two institutions on education, research, and clinical training and service.
She is an Associate Program Director of the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Program and a member of the UCSF Academic of Medical Educators. She was previously the course director for a first-year UCSF School of Medicine course titled “Health, Society, and the Individual” focused on social justice and health systems science content. Her scholarly work includes research on physician advocacy, social justice education, and care of socially complex patients.
Dr. Garg received her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Miami through the Honors Program in Medicine, an accelerated BS/MD program. She also has a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, where she was a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. After her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Alpert Medical School at Brown University, she joined the UCSF faculty in 2015.

For a full list of Dr. Garg’s publications, projects, and awards please visit her UCSF profile.

Education

  • University of Miami
    MD

  • Harvard School of Public Health
    MPH

  • Brown University
    Chief Residency

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