New Assistant Deans Appointed in Office of Student Affairs

Arvin Garg, MD, MPH, and Megan Young, MD, have been appointed Assistant Deans in the Office of Student Affairs.

Garg (BUSM ’99) is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of Connecticut and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. After being on staff at Tufts Medical Center for two years, he returned to BUSM as a faculty member in 2010. Garg currently has an NIH R01 award focused on addressing social determinants of health within the pediatric medical home. As a clinician-educator, Garg has served many teaching roles at BUSM including as an Associate Director of Medical Student Education for Pediatrics and as the Pediatric Inpatient Sub-Internship Director. In addition, Garg is an academies advisor and field-specific advisor for those students applying to residency in pediatrics. He has received multiple teaching awards, including Clinical Teacher of the Year Award for the Pediatric Clerkship in 2014.

Dr. Young is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Geriatrics. She received her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed a primary care residency in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), was selected to serve as Chief Medical Resident, and clinician-educator fellowship in Geriatrics at BU. Young is course director for Integrated Problems and also has served as assistant director for the fourth-year geriatrics ambulatory clerkship. She is a member of the Medical Education Committee (MEC) and is faculty advisor for the Geriatric Student Interest Group. In addition, Young is an academies advisor and field-specific advisor for those students applying to residency in internal medicine. Clinically she provides home-based primary care to frail elders in the community surrounding BMC.