Dr. Manish Garg is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons.
Dr. Garg grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Kalamazoo College. He completed his medical education at Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2001.
Dr. Garg has trained more than 300 medical trainees as part of residency leadership and more than 3,000 undergraduate medical trainees during 22 years at Temple University School of Medicine and New York Presbyterian Cornell & Columbia. He has been recognized as an educator with multiple Golden Apples, an Alpha Omega Alpha induction and Gold Humanism acknowledgements. For his efforts in international medicine, he was appointed dean for Global Medicine at Temple. From 2019 to 2025, he directed the NewYork-Presbyterian Cornell & Columbia Emergency Medicine Residency Program, where he earned Program Director of the Year awards from the Council of Program Directors in Emergency Medicine and AAEM/RSA.
Dr. Garg has been committed to the Academy over many years. He represented the Delaware Valley AAEM chapter as the Pennsylvania Director-At-Large and President. In these roles, he worked on patient (motorcycle helmet advocacy) and peer initiatives (National Physician Suicide Awareness Day). Dr. Garg further worked with a coalition of physicians at the state legislature to advocate for transparency with “surprise” billing. He has been the previous chair of the AAEM international committee and has lectured over 20 times at DVAAEM, Scientific Assembly, and MEMC.
Dr. Garg has co-founded a few international organizations that strive to advance global health equity by working with governments and institutions of higher learning. He has advanced emergency medicine, trauma, technology and critical care internationally that has impacted many lives. Dr. Garg has published in more than 60 journals and was the primary site investigator at Temple for multiple CDC/NIH-funded trials. His emerging infections research combined with his global health experiences at one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 outbreak provided opportunities to communicate 70+ engagements with the media about emergency care. These efforts to assist the public in understanding health and medicine led to consultation with the Office of the Vice President of the United States, advocating on topics such as emerging infectious disease, gun violence and reproductive rights.
He and his wife have four children.