Email

omar.merchant@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor - Hospitalist

Medicine - General Internal Medicine
Hospital Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Addresses

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Hospital)

6720 Bertner Ave
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-2222
Fax: (713) 798-0111
hospitalists@bcm.edu

One Baylor Plaza (Office)

Suite NC100, BCM MS: 621
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-2222
Fax: (713) 798-0111
hospitalists@bcm.edu

Education

MD from Baylor College of Medicine

Houston

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston

BS from University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas United States

Certifications

Texas Medical Board

Professional Interests

• Health policy
• Social determinants of health

Professional Statement

Dr. Merchant was born in Houston, Texas, and has called this city his home ever since. He attended Baylor College of Medicine for Medical School and continued training here for his residency in Internal Medicine. After completing his residency training in 2019, he stayed on as faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, as a hospitalist at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center. Through that time, he has rooted himself in the city further through engagement in various academic and civic endeavors. He has worked on projects related to public policy, social determinants of health, refugee health, and diversity. He designed and conducted an educational intervention for Internal Medicine residents and medical students on Structural Competency and later in Environmental Health. These projects aimed to give trainees a tool with which to assess and understand the various challenges our patients face as a result of structural vulnerabilities and social determinants of health. These interests and activities have shaped the vision he has for his career as a Physician.

Websites

Selected Publications

• "The Roles of MicroRNAs in the Cancer Invasion-Metastasis Cascade." ;:
• "Tuberculosis exposure, infection and disease among children with medical comorbidities." ;:
• "The inconsistent definitions used for tuberculosis in the medical literature." ;:
• "Material Requirements for Therapeutic Embolization of Intracranial Vascular Malformations." ;: