Email

rochat@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Secondary Faculty Appointment

Education, Innovation, and Technology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Education

Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2020 - Houston, Texas United States

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas United States

Pediatrics, 2017

MD from Baylor College of Medicine

05/2014 - Houston, Texas United States

PhD from Baylor College of Medicine

05/2012 - Houston, Texas United States

SCBMB Program

MS from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

05/2005 - St. Louis, Missouri United States

Genetic Epidemiology

BA from Washington University in St. Louis

05/2003 - St. Louis, Missouri United States

Physics and Mathematics

Certifications

Board Certified Pediatrics

American Board of Pediatrics

Board Certified Clinical Informatics

American Board of Preventative Medicine

Board Certified Pediatric Infectious Diseases

American Board of Pediatrics

Honors & Awards

Travel award for “Pediatric Fellows' Day Pre-meeting Session

2017

IDWeek

Residency Research Award

2017

Texas Children’s Hospital

Residency Scholarship Day (Selected Speaker)

2017

Texas Children’s Hospital

Professional Interests

• Congenital Cytomegalovirus
• Congenital Syphilis

Professional Statement

My experience as an MD/PhD has been a variegated and unique one. My exposure to bioinformatics during my graduate training in Genetic Epidemiology and Big Data during my PhD training has shaped the way in which I approach medicine in the era of the Electronic Health Records (EHRs). I had my first foray into informatics during my Masters training when I developed a series of computer programs to collect, parse, and aggregate genetic data from queries of large publicly available databases to focus selection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms for genetic research. During my residency training I focused my efforts developing a series of computer programs that would parse the EHR and systematically re-write themselves to adapt to the varied input data to determine rates of medication side-effects. It is this background that has given me a unique perspective to medicine and nurtured my unconventional approach to data processing, informatics, and research. During my clinical fellowship in pediatric infectious disease, I used similar high-throughput informatics to understand the healthcare associated costs of congenital CMV and better understand the progression of this disease and its many sequelae throughout time. As a junior faculty member, I have chosen to continue to pursue clinical informatics because I recognize the impact this field can have on care delivery and clinical research in an increasingly digitized world. My past experiences have steered me towards congenital infections and recent opportunities amidst a congenital syphilis epidemic have piqued an interest in this neglected disease. I fully expect to continue to use these skills to further integrate the readily available digital clinical information into clinical workflow and use real-time patient data to drive clinical research and decision making. I am certain that these skills will be of value in developing standardized protocols to query large patient record system to recover clinical information of particular interest to longitudinal studies and healthcare outcomes accordingly.

Professional Development

A Novel Technique for High-Volume Data Extraction from EPIC using Metadata-Driven Autonomous Scripts

Seminar (Presenter, 2016)

Sponsor: Texas Children’s Hospital

Zernike Phase Contrast Cryo-EM Reveals the Portal Complex in Herpes Virus

Conference (Presenter, 2012)

Sponsor: 40th Annual Keystone Conference: Structural Biology

Selected Publications

• "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Rochat+RH." ;:

Memberships

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

Conference Committee (01/2022)

Skills

Husband and Father

Barista

I am fully proficient in the production of a top-tier latte.

Clinical Informatics

I am board certified in clinical informatics and have an interest in improving data literacy and promoting data ownership.