Research & Innovation
A surgeon who also builds the field
Central to Dr. Garg’s identity is a body of academic work that is unusually translational — moving from clinical problem to published technique to patented device.
- 325+
- Publications, national & international
- 35
- h-index
- 2023·24·25
- Stanford Top 2% Scientists
- ~297
- Invited lectures & orations worldwide
- 7
- Patents & medical-device innovations
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Selected Publications
325+ papers in national & international journals; landmark and signature work.
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Books & Chapters
Two authored books and 47 textbook chapters.
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Patents & Devices
Seven patents and device innovations, from the AIIMS plate to FlexiOH™.
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Signature Techniques
Named techniques — Modified PVCR, Active Apex Correction, the AIIMS Box.
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Biodesign, AI & 3D Printing
Robotics, navigation, 3D-printed guides and machine-learning deformity analysis.
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Grants & Funded Research
Competitive DBT, ICMR and AO Trauma grants funding translational work.
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Awards & Recognition
62 awards including Stanford’s World’s Top 2% Scientists, 2023–25.
Landmark papers
Signature publications
- 2025 Modified posterior vertebral column resection for extremely severe post-tubercular kyphosis in adults: a two-year follow-up Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
- 2024 A Prospective Multicenter ≥2-Year Clinical Study of the Active Apex Correction (APC) Technique in Early-Onset Scoliosis Global Spine Journal
- 2022 Classification of mild and severe adolescent idiopathic scoliosis from healthy subjects via a supervised learning model based on electromyogram and ground-reaction-force data during gait Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Techniques
Named & published
- Modified PVCR A refined approach to one of the most complex spine procedures, for severe and rigid spinal deformity — developed and refined at AIIMS over roughly seven years.
- APC A technique for Early-Onset Scoliosis (EOS) that actively corrects the deformity at its apex.
- “AIIMS Box” technique A reconstruction technique (with its “Cage in Box” modification) for large femoral-neck defects and neglected femoral neck fractures.