Satish Garg MD

Satish K. Garg, MBBS, MD, DM, is Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Adult Clinic of the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, Colorado. He joined the faculty of the Barbara Davis Center in 1992 and became the founder and director of the Adult Clinic. He established and holds two Garg Endowed Chairs (clinical and clinical research) at the University of Colorado Denver. His team is one of the top teams worldwide in clinical trials involving insulin analogues and novel methods of insulin delivery (pens, pumps, oral, buccal, and inhaled) and non-insulin adjunctive treatment options for Type 1 Diabetes. Other areas of interest include: continuous glucose monitors, evaluating the accuracy of meters at high altitude, and artificial pancreas systems.

Dr. Garg received a medical degree in medicine at Punjab University in Ludhiana, India, where he also completed a residency in internal medicine at Christian Medical College and Hospital. He completed fellowships in adult endocrinology and diabetes at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh, India, and in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. He is board-certified in internal medicine, endocrinology, and diabetes.

Dr. Garg has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics journal since 2006 and Chair of the planning committee for the Clinical Therapeutics and New Technology area for the 2007 and 2008 Annual American Diabetes Association meetings. He has been the director of the ATDC Diabetes Conference in Keystone since 2005. He is a member of many Endocrine and Diabetes Societies such as the International Diabetes Federation, the American Diabetes Association, the Endocrine Society of India, the European Association for the Study of Study for Diabetes, the Regional Pediatric Endocrine Society of Colorado, the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes Mellitus, and numerous other professional societies in both the United States and India. He is an international lecturer and speaker-he received several international oration awards -and has published many chapters in books, on the editorial boards for many of the diabetes journals globally, and has published more than 298 original manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.