Nadish Garg, MD

CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME:Nadish Garg, MD

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CURRENT POSITION:Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Cardiology,

University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN

Director of Echocardiography Laboratory

The Regional Medical Center at University of Tennessee

EDUCATION:

July 2012-June 2013Fellowship,University of Arkansas Medical

Interventional Sciences,Little Rock, AR

Cardiology

July 2011-June 2012Fellowship,DeBakey Heart and Vascular

Advanced The Methodist Hospital, Houston,

Cardiovascular Texas (affiliated with Weill Cornell

ImagingUniversity-NY

July 2008-July2011Clinical FellowshipUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO

in Cardiovascular

Medicine

July 2008-June2009Research FellowshipUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO

in Cardiovascular

Medicine

July 2005-July2008ResidencyUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, MO

in Internal Medicine

April 2004-June 2005Research AssociateMayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

inCardiology

April 2002-Dec 2003House OfficerDayanand Medical College and

in Internal MedicineHospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

August 1996-Dec2001Medical SchoolDayanand Medical College and

Hospital, Ludhiana, India

HONORS/AWARDS:

2015Faculty Teaching AwardUthsc

2010Young Investigator AwardAtlanta

2008Myears Family Cardiovascular Fellow award MU

BOARDS CERTIFICATIONS:

July 2008ABIM-IM

November 2011ABIM-Cardiology

September 2012NBE-Echocardiography

Dec 2012SCCT-Cardiac CT

Dec 2012Nuclear Cardiology

Dec 2014Interventional Cardiology

OTHER CERTIFICATIONS:

November 2002USMLE Step 1

June 2003USMLE Step 2

May 2008USMLE Step 3

March 2004CSA

April 2004ECFMG

MEDICAL LICENSURES:

2012-PresentMissouri #2009009262

2012-PresentTexas #P0588

2012-PresentArkansas #E7570

2012-PresentPennsylvania #MD445182

2013-PresentTennessee #50192

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

  • Interventional Cardiology (Coronary and Peripheral Skills)
  • Experienced in Transradial Cardiac Catheterization and Percutenous Coronary Intervention.
  • Peripheral skills include Iliac artery, femoral-popliteal, infrapopliteal, renal artery intervention, subclavian artery interventions.
  • Experienced in using atherectomy devices
  • Experienced in using EKOS catheter for pulmonary embolism, peripheral arterial occlusion
  • Level III Echocardiography Training
  • Pacemaker/ICD Placement
  • Proficient in providing transesophageal (TEE) guidance for Transcutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement (Core Valve and Edward Sapiens)
  • Experienced in pre-procedureassessment of Core Valve and Edward Sapiens Valve by transthorasic echocardiography and TEE
  • Experienced in TEE guided interventional procedures includingatrial septal closure device andleft atrial appendage occlusion devices such as Watchman and Lariat device
  • Proficient in TEE image acquisition including 3-D TEE assessment
  • Level II training in Nuclear Cardiology
  • Level II training in Cardiac CT:
  • Coronary CTA, Calcium score, Pulmonary Vein assessment for pulmonary vein ablation
  • Pre-procedure evaluation of candidates for Transcutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement using Cardiac CT

ORAL/PODIUM PRESENTATIONS:

November 2012Oral Presentation at AHA 2012 - Diastolic Strain Parameters Predict

Outcome in High Risk Heart Failure Patients Referred for LVAD or Heart Transplantation

November 2012Oral Presentation at AHA 2012 - Sub-Optimal Detection of Left Ventricular

Thrombi with 2D Transthoracic Echocardiography Compared to Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Despite the Use of Contrast Echocardiography

March 2010Oral Presentation ACC2010-Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 and

Vitronectin Expression Level and Stoichiometry Regulate Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration through Physiological Collagen Matrices

October 2008Oral Presentation-ACCP 2008 - Acute Coronary Syndrome Caused

By Coronary Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Due To Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

April 2007Oral Presentation National ACP 2007 - Correlation of Left Ventricular

Ejection fraction with gSPECT or 2D-Echocardiography with Left Ventriculogram

RESEARCH:

Projects in Progress:

  1. Predictors of new atrial fibrillation in patients with blunt trauma chest, a retrospective analysis.
  1. Review article: Treatment strategies for DVT in the current area.

MANUSCRIPT IN PREPARATION:

  1. To study the role of strain imaging to predict outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure
  1. To examine the utility of contrast echocardiography in evaluating left ventricular thrombus in comparison with delayed enhanced-CMR

PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Garg N, Hakeem A, Gobal F, Uretsky BF.Outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total saphenous vein graft occlusions in the contemporary era. Catheter CardiovascInterv2013 Sep 13 (e-print)
  1. Kassi M, Garg N, Chang SM. Utility of Computed Tomography for Assessment of Prosthetic Aortic Valve Dysfunction with Pannus Formation. Methodist Debakey Cardiovascular J. 2013 Jul-Sep;9(3):174-175
  1. Hakeem A, Garg N,Bhatti S, Rajpurohit N, Ahmed Z, Uretsky BF. Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Drug-Eluting Stents Compared With Bypass Surgery in Diabetics With Multivessel Coronary Disease: Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Data.J Am Heart Assoc. 2013 Aug 7;2(4):e000354
  1. Garg N, Senthilkumar A, Nusair MB, Goyal N, Garg R, Alpert MA Heart failure with a normal left ventricular ejection fraction: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. The American Journal of Medical Sciences 2013 Aug; 346(2):129-36.
  1. Rajpurohit N, Garg N, Garg R, Choudhary A, Fresen J, Boren S, Dellsperger KC, Webel R, Aggarwal K, Alpert MA. Early versus delayed percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials.Catheter CardiovascInterv. 2013;81(2):223-231.
  1. Garg N, Flaker G. Role of Clopidogrel in Atrial fibrillation,Expert Opinpharmacother. 2011 Aug;12(11):1781-7.
  1. Garg N, Goyal N, Strawn TL, Wu J, Mann KM, Lawrence DA, Fay WP, Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 and Vitronectin Expression Level and Stoichiometry Regulate Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration through Physiological Collagen Matrices. J. ThrombHaemost. 2010 Aug;8(8):1847-54
  1. PrakashS, Garg N,Xie G, Dellsperger KC. Giant Left Ventricular Pseudoaneursym- A case report. JCT 2010Jul-Aug;4(4):284-5
  1. Garg N, Kumar A, Flaker GC. Antiplatelet therapy for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation 2010 Feb;107(1):44-47
  1. Garg N, Garg, R, Christensen, G, Singh, A:Acute Coronary Syndrome Caused by Coronary Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Due to late stent infection"-Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2009 Nov; 34(11):753-5
  2. Garg R, Singla A, Garg N,Chockalingham, A:Extra leads solve the case.American Journal of Medicine 2009 Jun;122(6):522-4
  1. Garg N, Fay, WP: Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 and Restenosis. Current Drug Targets 2007;8:1003-1006.
  1. Fay WP, Garg N,Sunkar M: Vascular Functions of the Plasminogen Activation System. ArteriosclerThrombVascBiol 2007; 27:1231-1237.

ABSTRACT/POSTER:

  1. ACC 2016 MannuNayyar, MD, Bryan J. King, MD, Nadish Garg, MDWhen Guidelines Fail, A Case Study in Infective Endocarditis and Perimembranous Ventral Septal Defect
  2. ACC 2014Ritin Bomb MD, Nadish Garg MD, Karl T Weber MD, Santhosh K.G Koshy MD, Traumatic tricuspid valve avulsion following blunt chest injury: A Mystery Unfolded
  1. SCAI 2013Nadish Garg, MD, Zubair Ahmed MD, Barry F. Uretsky, MD, Abdul Hakeem, MD Comparative Effectiveness of PCI with drug eluting stents vs. CABG for multi-vessel CAD in diabetic patients- Meta Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
  1. AHA 2011Rafael Marroquin MD, Nadish Garg MD,Arun Kumar MD, Kevin C. Dellsperger MD, PhD and Raja R. Gopaldas MD Multi-vessel Percutaneous Coronary Stenting versus Multi-vessel Coronary Bypass Grafting in the Emergent Setting: 11-year Nationwide Propensity score Matched Study.
  1. ACC 2011 Rajpurohit, N, Garg, N, Choudhary, A, Fresen, J, Petruc, M, Ousama, D, Alpert, M, Dellsperger, KC, Aggarwal, K, Immediate versus delayed Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for patient with Non ST segment Elevation-Acute coronary syndrome: Meta-analysis of randomized trials.
  1. ACP Missouri Chapter 2009

Prakash, S, Garg, N, Xie, GY, Dellsperger, KC, Giant Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm and abiotrophia endocarditis

  1. ACP Missouri Chapter 2009

Sidhu, M, Garg, N,Chockalingam, A, Cardiac Metastasis presenting as ST Elevation on 12 Lead Electrocardiogram

  1. ATVB 2007

Strawn, T, Garg, N, Fay, WP, De Novo Vitronectin Expression Regulates Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation, Adhesion and Migration

  1. Photo Quiz

Singh A, McEvoy C, Garg N: Internal Medicine Quiz. Resident & Staff Physician 2008; 54(2):12-13.

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