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

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." ;