Manish Garg

Manish Garg is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, the Senior Associate Residency Program Director, and the Director of Global Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Garg obtained Bachelor of Arts in Health Sciences from the Kalamazoo College with honors such as Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1996 and 1997 respectively. In 2001 he completed his medical education at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and following it became a resident of Detroit Receiving Hospital, specializing in Emergency Medicine, before joining the faculty at the Temple University School of Medicine.

In 2010, as an assistant professor, Garg had traveled to El Salvador to assist survivors of Hurricane Ida. He and associate professor Thomas Comerci had spent a week in a coastal country providing free medical care and mobile clinics in cities such Apopa, Quezaltepeque, San Martín and Verapaz.

Since 2016, Garg serves on the Board of Governors of the American College of Academic International Medicine and is a member of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors.

In May 2019, he was appointed to lead New-York Presbyterian Emergency Medicine Residency Program, a position which he will start in September 2019. Along with that position, he will be on the faculty of the Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.