Vidu Garg, MD, Named Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research at Nationwide Childrens Hospital

September 24, 2015

Vidu Garg, MD, a pediatric cardiologist and faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital has been named director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s.
 
In addition to treating children with heart disease, Dr. Garg also studies the genetic basis of congenital heart disease and the molecular pathways regulating normal and abnormal cardiac development.
 
Dr. Garg completed his pediatric residency at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in 1997 after which he spent five years at the University of Texas Southwestern completing his pediatric cardiology training and a post-doctoral research fellowship in cardiac development and cardiovascular genetics. Subsequently, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern before returning to Nationwide Children’s in 2009. Dr. Garg is also currently an associate professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics in The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
 
“Dr. Garg is a national expert on the genetics of congenital heart disease. His tremendous intellectual curiosity and ability to pose innovative scientific questions has resulted in an enviable a track record of NIH funding enabling discovery of genes and signaling pathways critical for heart development.  While interim center director, Dr. Garg was a tremendous leader and in a short time significantly strengthened the Center’s NIH funding portfolio” according to John Barnard, MD, chief of Pediatrics and president of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s.
 
“Dr. Garg has the intellect, the reputation, and the energy to drive our center in becoming a world-recognized leader in the field of cardiovascular research. Dr. Garg’s vision for the center will bring clinicians and scientists together in a collaboration to help solve the burning questions in the field of cardiovascular medicine.  We simply could not have done better than naming Vidu as our center’s director,” notes Timothy F. Feltes, MD, chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
 
 
Vidu Garg, MD, has been named Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
 
Note for editors: Dr. Garg lives in the 43221 zip code area.

About Nationwide Children's Hospital

Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-24 list of “Best Children’s Hospitals,” Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of America’s largest not-for-profit free-standing pediatric health care systems providing unique expertise in pediatric population health, behavioral health, genomics and health equity as the next frontiers in pediatric medicine, leading to best outcomes for the health of the whole child. Integrated clinical and research programs, as well as prioritizing quality and safety, are part of what allows Nationwide Children’s to advance its unique model of care. Nationwide Children’s has a staff of more than 14,000 that provides state-of-the-art wellness, preventive and rehabilitative care and diagnostic treatment during more than 1.7 million patient visits annually. As home to the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Children’s physicians train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the Top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded free-standing pediatric research facilities. More information is available at NationwideChildrens.org.