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Sylvia E. Rosas

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Department: Medicine

Contact information

Room 113
1 Founders Pavilion/HUP
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-615-3446
Fax: 215-615-3447

Email:
sylvia.rosas@uphs.upenn.edu

Publications

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Education:
M.D.
Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario, Bogota, Columbia, 1990.
(Business Administration)
Wharton Management Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
M.S.C.E. (Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program)
University of Pennsylvania, 2003.

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Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division

Post-Graduate Training
Rotating Internship, Hospital San Jose, Bogota, Columbia, 1989-1990.
Internal Medicine Residency, Michael Reese Hospital, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL , 1992-1995.
Nephrology Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1995-1998.
Genomic and Proteomic Approaches to Complex Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Disorders, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2007-2007.

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Description of Research Expertise

epidemiological studies
cardiovascular disease
non-invasive studies
chronic kidney disease
novel cardiovascular risk factors
coronary calcifications
minority health

Description of Clinical Expertise

chronic kidney disease

Selected Publications

Rosas SE, Feldman HI: Synthetic Vascular Hemodialysis Access vs Native Arteriovenous Fistula: A Cost-Utility Analysis. Annals of Surgery 255(1): 181-6, Jan 2012

Wahl P, Xie H, Scialla J, Anderson CA, Bellovich K, Brecklin C, Chen J, Feldman H, Gutierrez OM, Lash J, Leonard MB, Negrea L, Rosas SE, Anderson AH, Townsend RR, Wolf M, Isakova T. : Earlier onset and greater severity of disordered mineral metabolism in diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease. Diabetes Care 2012.

Rosas SE, Reese PP. Huan Y, Doria C, Cochetti P, Doyle AM: Pre-transplant Physical Activity is a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in Kidney Transplant Recipients. American Journal of Nephrology 35(1): 17-23 Dec 2011.

Scialla JJ, Leonard MB, Townsend RR, Appel L, Wolf M, Budoff MJ, Chen J, Lustigova E. Gadegbeku CA, Glenn M, Hanish A, Raj D, Rosas SE, Seliger SL, Weir MR, Parekh RS on behalf of the CRIC Study Group: Correlates of Osteoprotegerin and Association with Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 6(11): 2612-2619, Nov 2011.

Faul C*, Amaral AP*, Oskouei B*, Hu MC, Sloan A, Isakova T, Gutiérrez OM, Aguillon-Prada R, Lincoln J, Hare JM, Mundel P, Morales A, Scialla J, Fischer M, Soliman EZ, Chen J, Go AS, Rosas SE, Nessel L, Townsend RR, Feldman HI, St. John Sutton M, Ojo A, Gadegbeku C, Di Marco GS, Reuter S, Kentrup D, Tiemann K, Brand M, Hill JA, Moe OW, Kuro-o M, Kusek JW, Keane MG, Wolf M. *contributed equally : Fibroblast growth factor 23 induces left ventricular hypertrophy. Journal of Clinical Investigation 121(11): 4393-408, Nov 2011.

Baigent C, Landray MJ, Reith C, Emberson J, Wheeler DC, Tomson C, Wanner C, Krane V, Cass A, Craig J, Neal B, Jiang L, Hooi LS, Levin A, Agodoa L, Gaziano M, Kasiske B, Walker R, Massy ZA, Feldt-Rasmusseb B, Krairittichai U, Ophascharoensuk V, Fellstrom B, Holdaas H, Tesar V, Wiecek A, Grobbee D, de Zeeuw D, gronhagen-Riska C, Dasgupta T, Lewis D, Herrington W, Mafham M, Majoni W, Wallendszus K, Grimm R, Pedersen T, Tobert J, Armitage J, Baxter A, Bray C, Chen Y, Chen Z, Hill M, Knott C, Parish S, Simpson D, Sleight P, Young A, Collins, R on behalf of the SHARP Investigators: The Effects of Lowering LDL Cholesterol with Simvastatin Plus Ezetimibe in Patientswith Chronic Kidney Disease (Study of Heart and Renal Protection): A randomized pacebo-controlled trial. The Lancet 377(9784): 2181-92, June 2011.

Day EC, Li Y, Diez-Roux A, Kandula N, Moran A, Rosas S, Shlipak MG, Peralta CA: Associations of acculturation and kidney dysfunction among Hispanics and Chinese from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation 26(6): 1909-16, Jun 2011.

Bayer ND, Cochetti PT, Anil Kumar MS, Teal V, Huan Y, Doria C, Bloom RD, Rosas SE: Association of Metabolic Syndrome with Development of New Onset Diabetes After Transplantation. Transplantation 90(8): 861-866, October 2010 Notes: Featured article with commentary by Vanlaecke S, "The Metabolic Syndrome and New-Onset Diabetes After Transplantation: Presumed Guilty?" Transplantation October, 2010.

Roe P, Wolfe M, Joffe M, Rosas SE: Inflammation, Coronary Artery Calcification and Cardiovascular Events in Incident Renal Transplant Recipients. Atherosclerosis 212(2): 589-594 October 2010 Notes: Featured article with Commentary: Santos RD. "Coronary artery calcification progression and cardiovascular events in renal transplant recipients, bad inheritance from previous kidney disease: Commentary on the study of Roe" Atherosclerosis (2010) PMID 20619413.

Tan A, Hoffman B, Rosas SE: Patient Perception of Risk Factors Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease Morbidity and Mortality. Ethnicity and Disease 20(2): 106-10, Spring 2010.