Associate Professor
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Suchitra Rao, MBBS, MSCS: Dr. Rao is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the sections of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Medicine and Associate Medical Director of Infection Control and Prevention at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Her research activities have focused on the epidemiology and clinical outcomes of respiratory viral pathogens in children, with funding from NIH, AHRQ, PCORI and the CDC. She has extensive experience in leveraging EHR data from national networks, including the CDC’s VISION network, and PCORnet, is one of the principal investigators for the NIH RECOVER’s Pediatric EHR cohort initiative exploring the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, and is the site Principal Investigator and Research Committee Chair for PEDSnet, which is a large pediatric data network and learning health system across multiple sites across the US.