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Rochisha Singh Marwaha, DDS, MPH

Clinical Assistant Professor, Comprehensive Dentistry

Assistant Director, DPH Residency Program

Dr. Rochisha Singh Marwaha is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at the University of Texas Health San Antonio, School of Dentistry and serves as the Assistant Director for the Dental Public Health Residency program. She is Board-Certified and a Diplomate of American Board of Dental Public Health. Dr. Marwaha has experience providing culturally competent care to a diverse group of patients and populations both in the United States and internationally and has worked in a variety of settings, including private practice, community health centers and academia.

Dr. Marwaha graduated from Baba Farid University of Health Sciences in Punjab, India with a Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Surgery, followed by completion of a hospital based one-year internship where she completed clinical rotations in all dental departments and select medical departments including general medicine, surgery and emergency medicine. She practiced as an Associate Dentist before moving to the United States in 2015 to pursue a Master’s degree in Public Health with a specialization in Epidemiology from Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans. Her passion to improve oral health in underserved and vulnerable populations motivated her to complete a postdoctoral advanced dental education residency program in Dental Public Health at Columbia University, College of Dental Medicine in New York City. Following residency, she completed a clinical fellowship in Dental Public Health at University of Texas Health San Antonio, School of Dentistry in 2019.

Dr. Marwaha has been involved and received federally funding as a co-principal investigator and an investigator on several grants in primary care and geriatric dentistry. She has also authored and co-authored numerous abstract presentations presented at national conferences and published several articles pertinent to her research. Dr. Marwaha’s research interests include opioid related prescribing knowledge, opinions and behaviors of dentists and dental specialists and the role of dentists in combatting the opioid epidemic in the United States. She is currently working on several collaborative initiatives that focus on addressing oral health disparities through Interprofessional Education (IPE) initiatives and reducing the overall opioid prescriptions filled by health professionals. Some of her work addresses issues that arise from lack of access to oral healthcare in vulnerable and rural populations in South Texas.