Nina Garga, MD
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

415-303-0067

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.

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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.

Awards

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

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017

Interests

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

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Publications (3)

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