Rohit Shenoi, MD

Dr. Rohit P. Shenoi is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine and an attending physician in the Texas Children's Hospital Emergency Center. He is an experienced clinician and avid researcher with a long-standing interest in childhood injury prevention and advocacy.

Dr. Shenoi's expertise is in drowning prevention, opioid stewardship and child passenger safety education. He has also conducted research in screening for suicide and alcohol and drug use in youth. In his research, he has linked prehospital, hospital and fatality data to investigate pediatric drowning outcomes, the role of bystander rescue and resuscitation and to identify clusters of pediatric drowning and community-level drowning risk factors in Houston and Harris County, Texas. He is the principal investigator of a multi-center study that is externally validating the pediatric submersion score. The risk score identifies pediatric drowning victims at low risk for injury. He was recently awarded a 3-year CDC grant to identify gender and ethnic subpopulations that experience higher rates of unintentional drowning, investigate the causes and outcomes for these disparities and compute the economic costs arising from unintentional drowning.