Research
Dr. Garg’s research interests include diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Garg has completed an immense amount of research work to improve the clinical care of patients with diabetes.
Biography
Dr. Rajesh Garg is the Head of Diabetes Section at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He was previously an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, and then a Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Miami.
He has published more than a hundred articles on issues related to diabetes and edited two books on the management of diabetes and endocrinology. He was instrumental in creating standards of clinical care for preoperative management of diabetes for elective surgery patients. He led the comprehensive diabetes center at the University of Miami and designed the clinical diabetes program for Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami before moving to LA where he is focused on improving diabetes care of the under-resourced populations.
He is a nationally recognized expert on diabetes and serves on many national and international professional committees.