Education & Training

Medical School

Universidad Nacional de Asuncion

Internship

Transitional Year

  • Universidad Nacional De Asuncion

Residency

Internal Medicine

  • University of Missouri School of Medicine GME

Fellowship

Infectious Disease

  • Zale Lipshy University Hospital

Boards

American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease

Insurances

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Academic Information

Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
Program Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Associate Professor of Medicine

Office

1 Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212
United States

P. 573-882-3107
F. 573-884-5790

Awards & Honors

  • 2016-2017 Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. Department of Medicine. Chairman’s Distinguished Award. University of Missouri
  • 2017 American College of Physicians (ACP) Young Achiever. 
  • 2016 Elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians
  • 2015-2016 Outstanding Inpatient Attending Award. Medicine clerkship. Department of Medicine. University of Missouri. 
  • 2015-2016 Professionalism Award. Department of Medicine. University of Missouri.
  • 2014-2015 Professionalism Award. Department of Medicine. University of Missouri. 

Publications

  • Rojas-Moreno C, Bhartee H, Vasudevan A, Adiga R, Salzer W. Tetracyclines for Treatment of Tularemia: A Case Series. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 5, Issue 9, 1 September 2018, ofy176, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy176.
  • Regunath H, Rojas-Moreno C, Olano JP, Hammer RD, Salzer W. Early Diagnosis of Ehrlichia ewingii Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient by Peripheral Blood Smear. Transpl Infect Dis. 2017;19:e12652. Epub 2016 Dec 30. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.12652. PMID: 28036138.
  • Regunath H, Chinnakotla B, Rojas-Moreno C, Salzer W, Hughes NJ, Sangha H. A Case of Fatal Serotonin Syndrome-Like Human Rabies Caused by Tricolored Bat-Associated Rabies Virus. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Jun 1;94(6):1376-9. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.15-0852. Epub 2016 Mar 21. PMID: 27001756. PMCID: 4889760.
  • Rojas-Moreno CA, Spiegel D, Yalamanchili V, Kuo E, Quinones H, Sreeramoju PV, Luby JP. Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections in Patients on Emergent Hemodialysis. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2016 Mar;37(3):301-5. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2015.293. Epub 2015 Nov 26. PMID: 26607662.