Dr. Garg is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Associate Chief of Hospital Medicine at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Her clinical work includes attending on the inpatient teaching service, surgical co-management, and the Faculty Hospitalist Service. She is Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science, Health Policy, and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.

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 and the Individual/Health and Society,” 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.