Amit Garg, MD, FAAD
Professor, Institute of Health System Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Professor and Founding Chair, Dermatology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Senior Vice President, Dermatology Service Line, Northwell Health
Dr. Garg is Professor and Founding Chairman for the Department of Dermatology at Northwell Health and the Zucker School of
Medicine at Hofstra Northwell. He is also Professor in the Center for Health Innovation and Outcomes Research at the Feinstein
Institutes for Medical Research. Dr. Garg’s subspecialty expertise is interdisciplinary based in caring for patients with inflammatory skin disease, and namely HS. His funded research interests include the application of ‘Big Data’ analytics to evaluate outcomes related to inflammatory skin diseases, as well as the development of outcome measurement instruments and their psychometric assessments for clinical trials and in practice.
Dr. Garg is Co-lead for the CHORD COUSIN COLLABORATION (C3) and for HISTORIC, research organizations whose objectives include development of core outcome sets for clinical trials in dermatologic diseases, and specifically for HS, respectively. Dr. Garg is Chair of the Council on Education for the American Academy of Dermatology and past Vice Chair for the Dermatology Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Counsel of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He serves on the editorial board for the JAAD and he is the Outcomes section editor for the journal Dermatology. He has over 200 publications in the peer reviewed literature, the majority of which are original research articles. Dr. Garg was awarded the 2016 Thomas G. Pearson, EdD Memorial Education Award by the American Academy of Dermatology.