Dr. Amit Garg is the Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, where he is also a Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He serves as a staff nephrologist at the London Health Sciences Centre, and his clinical activities include on-call hospital-based care for a renal ward and consult service, in-centre hemodialysis care, and outpatient clinics (general nephrology, advanced chronic kidney disease, and living kidney donor evaluation clinics).

Working in teams, Dr. Garg conducts clinical and health services research to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease (over 725 publications, h-index 120). A current research focus is on pragmatic, large, randomized trials, and he currently serves as the lead investigator of a pan-Canadian training program to build capacity with these methods (in all areas of healthcare).