Dr. Sandeep Narang completed his undergraduate studies at Auburn University, majoring in philosophy, and earned his JD from Vanderbilt University in 1993. For four years he served as a trial attorney in the United States Navy in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) as both a prosecutor and defense counsel. During his Navy JAG tour, Dr. Narang realized that pediatrics was his calling. He gained acceptance to Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. in 1997, and graduated in 2001 with his medical degree.
Dr. Narang began his pediatrics residency at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, in 2001. It was interrupted in 2002 when he was deployed, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, aboard the USS Sacramento. He finished his deployment tour in 2004 and completed his pediatrics residency in 2006. He is currently an assistant professor of pediatrics and the fellowship director of child abuse pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.
Dr. Narang is board certified in both general pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics. He has lectured at state and national levels and testified in both state and federal U.S. courts, and is recognized as an expert in general pediatrics and child abuse and neglect, with a specific emphasis on abusive head trauma and medico-legal aspects of child maltreatment.
Dr. Narang is presenting a series of lectures on evidence-based medicine in child maltreatment to Indian child abuse pediatricians, general pediatricians, pediatric residents, and medical students at various venues including national/regional pediatric conferences and medical colleges throughout India. Dr. Narang is also working on a comparative cross-cultural survey of Indian and U.S. child abuse pediatrician attitudes toward child maltreatment and corporal punishment. India has historically had low general levels of violence, but high levels of violence against children. Dr. Narang is studying whether pervasive cultural attitudes and beliefs about children impact and result in different impressions of the likelihood of abuse among Indian and U.S. child abuse physicians.