Dr. Garg is Professor and Founding Chairman for the Department of Dermatology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell. He is also Professor in the Center for Health Innovation and Outcomes Research at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Dr. Garg currently serves as the President for the Northwell Health Physician Partners, a medical group representing over 6000 doctors at Northwell Health in New York.
Dr. Garg’s subspecialty expertise is interdisciplinary based in caring for patients with autoimmune and inflammatory conditions including hidradenitis suppurativa and psoriasis. Dr. Garg's funded research interests include identification of comorbidities using ‘Big Data’, and development of a core outcome set for clinical trials for dermatologic diseases.
Dr. Garg is Chair of the Council on Education for the American Academy of Dermatology. He has held leadership roles within national professional organizations, including C3 (CHORD
COUSIN Collaboration), HiSTORIC (Hidradenitis Suppurativa Core Outcome Set International Collaboration), Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation, the Group for Research and Assessment of
Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, the National Psoriasis Foundation, the Association of Professors of Dermatology, the Medical Dermatological Society, and the American Academy of
Dermatology. Dr. Garg recently served as Vice Chair for the Dermatology's Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Counsel of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Dr. Garg serves on the editorial board for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and he is the Outcomes section editor for the journal Dermatology. He has published a number of articles in the peer-reviewed literature and has authored several book chapters. Dr. Garg was awarded the 2016 Thomas G. Pearson, EdD Memorial Education Award by the American Academy of Dermatology.