Nidhi Garg, MD

Research Director

Nidhi Garg, MD, FACEP is the Research Director for the Southside Hospital emergency department. She has over a decade of experience in research in emergency medicine. Dr. Garg grew up in India and went to medical school at Pt. B.D. Sharma P.G.I.MS. Rohtak, Haryana and came to the United States to pursue her residency training. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and stayed on for two years as Assistant Research Director and Assistant Program Director. She joined Northwell Health in 2015 as an Associate Program Director for the Zucker Emergency Medicine Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. She moved to Southside Hospital in 2019 and focuses primarily on clinical research. She holds several peer reviewer positions nationally and has committee and office positions at the American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP), Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and New York chapter of ACEP.

Her primary research focus is congestive heart failure (CHF) and she works with the Feinstein Institute very closely. She is passionate about the scholarly activities of residents and faculty and has played an integral role in various task forces related to scholarly activity. Her evolving interests are in big data and machine learning and she is currently undergoing training in those fields.

Dr. Garg enjoys dancing, kickboxing, and yoga.

Research and Presentations

Madsen, T. E., Linden, J. A., Rounds, K., Hsieh, Y.-H., Lopez, B. L., Boatright, D., Garg, N., Heron, S. L., Jameson, A., Kass, D., Lall, M. D., Melendez, A. M., Scheulen, J. J., Sethuraman, K. N., Westafer, L. M. and Safdar, B. Current Status of Gender and Racial/ Ethnic Disparities Among Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians. AcadEmerg Med. 2017;24(10):1182-1192. doi: 10.1111/acem.13269 Kane BG, Totten VY, Kraus CK, Allswede M, Diercks DB, Garg N, Ling L, McDonald EN, Rosenau AM, Wilke M, Holmes AD, Hemminger A, Greenberg M. Creating Consensus: Revisiting the Emergency Medicine Resident Scholarly Activity Requirement. West J Emerg Med. 2019;20(2):369-375. doi:10.5811/westjem.2018.10.39293 Garg N, Brave M, Dym A, Gupta S, Becker L. The Effect of Athletic Chest Protectors on the Performance of Manual and Mechanical CPR: A Simulation Study. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020 May 1;Volume Publish Ahead of Print. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002090 Greenberger S, Finnell J, Chang B, Garg N, Quinn S, Bird S, Diercks D, Doty C, Gallahue F, Moreira M, Ranney M, Rives L, Kessler C, Lo B, Schmitz G. Changes to the ACGME Common Program Requirements and Their Potential Impact on Emergency Medicine Core Faculty Protected Time. AEM Educ Train. 2019 Nov 23;4(3): 244-253. https://doi.org/10.1002/aet2.10421 Lall, M. D, Perman, S. M, Garg, N., Kohn, N., Whyte, K., Gips, A., Madsen, T., Baren, J., Linden, J. Intention to Leave Emergency Medicine: Mid-career Women Are at Increased Risk. WestJem. 2020 21(5). http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2020.5.47313 Garg N, Leung M, Ali Z, Chan P. To Study the Use of Interpreter Services Among Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department(ED). Poster Presentation at New York State Chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians, 6th July 2016, Lake George, NY Garg N, Lenz A, Sample J, Zimmerman ME. To Study the Factors Involved in EMS trauma Activation in Adult Trauma Patients Arriving Emergency Department(ED).Poster Presentation at New York State Chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians, 6th July 2016, Lake George, NY Lall M, Garg N, Perman S, Whyte K,Gips A, Baren J, Madsen T, Linden J. Burnout in Board Certified Emergency Physicians. Poster Presentation at SAEM 2017, Orlando, FL Garg N, Lee R, Gupta S. An Assessment of Current Management Strategies for Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with a Foreign Body Sensation in the Neck Poster Presentation at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Research Day, Hempstead, NY. Nov 2017 Dym A, Garg N, Brave M, Becker L, Gupta S. The Effect of Athletic Chest Protective Equipment on the Performance of Manual and Mechanical Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Simulation Study, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 72, Issue 4, Supplement,2018, Pages S137-S138,ISSN 0196-0644 Yang J, Garg N, Brave M, Gerin S, Becker L, Kozikowski A, Patel V, Kohn N, Pekmezaris R. Patterns of Heart Failure Acuity Among Northwell Emergency Departments. Poster Presentation at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Research Day, Hempstead, NY. Nov 2018