Nina Garga * UCSF Profiles

Nina Garga, MD

Title(s)	Associate Professor, Neurology
School	School of Medicine
Phone	415-379-5599
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Title(s)	UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

Biography

Education and Training

University of California, San Francisco, CA

2017

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

Awards and Honors

UCSF Academy of Medical Educators	2016		Excellence in Teaching Award
American Epilepsy Society	2006		Top Scholar Fellowship Award
UCB Pharma	2004		Neurology Residents Scholars Program
UCSF	2005 -	2006	Chief Residency in Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	2001		Andrew Doyle Award for Excellence in Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	2001		Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Induction
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	1998		Icahn Fellowship Award for the Study of Child Protection
UC Berkeley	1996 -	1998	Golden Key National Honor Society
UC Berkeley	1994		Chancellor's Scholarship Award

Overview

Nina I. Garga, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology at UCSF, and serves as the Director of the Southwest Regional VA Epilepsy Center of Excellence (ECoE) and the San Francisco VA ECoE. Her clinical duties include oversight of the epilepsy monitoring unit, clinical neurophysiology laboratory, video TeleHealth rural outreach clinics, and outpatient clinics. She is the SFVAMC site director for the ACGME epilepsy fellowship and the Neurology 110 medical student core clerkship, and she directs the VA neurophysiology rotation, a required part of the neurology residency curriculum. Dr. Garga has special interests in curriculum development, interdisciplinary provider education and patient education. She received her doctorate in medicine from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2002, and completed neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology/epilepsy fellowship at UCSF in 2008. She completed the UCSF School of Medicine Teaching Scholars Program in 2014.

Interests

education, curriculum development, faculty development, learner assessment, flipped classroom, education leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion, epilepsy, post-traumatic epilepsy, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, Veterans

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Publications

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Rao VR, Lim LE, Fong D, Garga NI, Parko KL. Multicentric Castleman's disease with voltage-gated potassium channel antibody-positive limbic encephalitis: a case report. BMC Neurol. 2015 Feb 04; 15:4. PMID: 25648431.

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Garga N, Lowenstein DH. Posttraumatic epilepsy: a major problem in desperate need of major advances. Epilepsy Curr. 2006 Jan-Feb; 6(1):1-5. PMID: 16477313.

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Panossian LA, Garga NI, Pelletier D. Toxic brainstem encephalopathy after artemisinin treatment for breast cancer. Ann Neurol. 2005 Nov; 58(5):812-3. PMID: 16240360.

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