Care for infants, children and young adults with congenital and acquired heart disease, including:

• Heart failure
• Heart transplantation
• Ventricular assist devices
• Single-ventricle physiology
• Cardiomyopathy
• Transplant rejection
• Ventricular assist device (VAD) support

Fellowships

• University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital, 2019, Pediatric Cardiology

Residency

• SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 2016, Pediatrics

Medical Education

• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, 2011

Certifications

• American Board of Pediatrics-Pediatric Cardiology
• American Board of Pediatrics-Pediatrics

Publications

Please view Dr. Ashish Garg’s publications on PubMed.

Research

I am actively engaged in clinical research to advance care and outcomes for children with complex heart disease. My work focuses on optimizing pediatric ventricular assist device (VAD) management, including developing evidence-based antiplatelet protocols for paracorporeal VADs to reduce stroke risk. I also focus on supporting patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy as a bridge to transplant, refining VAD strategies for single-ventricle physiology, and improving transplant outcomes in highly sensitized pediatric patients. Through my research, I strive to translate innovative strategies into meaningful improvements in survival and quality of life for children with advanced heart disease.

Professional Organizations

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American College of Cardiology
• International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
• American Heart Association
• ACTION

Presentations

Oral Presentations

• Ashish Garg, MD (May 2024) Role of Echocardiogram in Acute Rejection
  2024 Chicago Sonographer Update
• Ashish Garg, MD (November 2023) Compaction Conundrums: Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy
  45th Annual Echo Northwestern in Collaboration with Lurie Children’s: Echo Throughout the Ages
• Ashish Garg, MD, Satinder Sandhu, MD (February 2019) Double Melody valve (valve-in-valve) implantation in pulmonary and tricuspid valve position: A Unique Case
  Miami valves, Miami FL
• Ashish Garg, J Hunter, R Vado, F Reyes, C Curry, C Katsoufis, A Pensirkul, A Berrocal, G Saigal, E Bandstra, R Younis, V Govind, C Bauer, X Liu, S Andreansky, I Gonzalez, (2018, August) Cardiac effects in perinatally Zika-exposed children: A view from the United States of America Annual meeting of Florida Chapter of American College of Cardiology, Orlando FL (Young Investigator Finalist Award)
• Garg A., Manalo, R., Gorla S., Luzzo C., Hunter J., Kardon R., Swaminathan S., (2018, July)
  Myocardial Strain Imaging as a New Tool in the Assessment of Ventricular Function in Pediatric Patients: A Quality Improvement Project.
  6th Scientific Meeting of the World Society of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Orlando, FL
• Garg A., Jivani N., Kardon R., Sokoloski M., (2017, October) “Lub…….Dub”: Complete Heart Block in Fetus: A case that gave us Chest Pain. The 8th Phoenix Fetal Cardiology Symposium, Phoenix AZ, USA
• Garg A., Kardon R., (2017, June) “3-D ECHO imaging in Double Outlet Right Ventricle”.
  Pediatric ECHO Society of South Florida Meeting, Miami FL, USA
• Garg A., Arora A., Hand I., (2015, May) Pediatric Resident Attitudes and Knowledge of Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening. AAP Conference Brooklyn chapter, Brooklyn NY, USA

Poster Presentations

• Ashish Garg, Rachel Bercovitz, Nora Hammond, Michael Monge, Philip Thrush and Anna Joong (2024, November); Pediatric Paracorporeal VAD Antiplatelet Protocol.
  American Heart Association annual meeting, Chicago IL
• Garg, S. O'Brien, J. Weinstein, N. Arva, S. Gong, P. Thrush, and K. Gambetta (2024, April) T-Cell Lymphoma Masquerading as Cellular Mediated Rejection in a Heart Transplant Patient. ISHLT Annual Conference 2024, Prague
• Garg, A. Joong, K. Gambetta, M. Monge, and P. Thrush (2024, April) To VAD or Not VAD? How to Get to Heart Transplant in a Child with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
  ISHLT Annual Conference 2024, Prague
• Ashish Garg, MD, Satinder Sandhu, MD (2018, September) Double Melody valve (valve-in-valve) implantation in pulmonary and tricuspid valve position: A Unique Case, PICS-AICS, Las Vegas NV
• Garg, A., Gorla, S. R., Kardon, R. E., & Swaminathan, S. (2018, August). Rapid Involution of Large Cardiac Rhabdomyomas With Everolimus Therapy. Annual meeting of Florida Chapter of American College of Cardiology, Orlando FL
• Garg A., Manalo, R., Gorla S., Luzzo C., Hunter J., Kardon R., Swaminathan S., (2018, August) Myocardial Strain Imaging as a New Tool in the Assessment of Ventricular Function in Pediatric Patients: A Quality Improvement Project
  Annual meeting of Florida Chapter of American College of Cardiology, Orlando FL
• Garg A., Manalo, R., Gorla S., Luzzo C., Hunter J., Kardon R., Swaminathan S., (2018, May) Myocardial Strain Imaging as a New Tool in the Assessment of Ventricular Function in Pediatric Patients: A Quality Improvement Project Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Showcase, Miami, USA (3rd Best Poster)
• Garg A., Vial X., Ghodsizad A., Loebe M., Brozzi N., Rosenkranz E., Rusconi P., (2017, April) HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device as Bridge to Heart Transplant in a 6-Year Old Child with Myocarditis ISHLT Conference, San-Diego CA, USA
• Garg A., Arora A., Rizvi M., Desai N., (2016, October) National Survey of Pediatric Care Providers: Assessing time and impact of coding and documentation in Physician practice.  AAP Conference, San-Francisco CA, USA
• Levine R., Pollak-Christian E., Garg A., (2016, October) Its Not Always Sepsis: Fatal tachypnea in a Newborn AAP Conference, San-Francisco CA, USA
• Garg A., Arora A., Hand I., (2015, April) Pediatric Resident Attitudes and Knowledge of Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening PAS Conference, San-Diego CA, USA
• Garg A., Dave M., Kalyanaraman V., (2012, September). Roflumilast Induced Acute Pancreatitis. ACP Conference Oklahoma chapter, Tulsa OK, USA (3rd Best Poster)