Faculty

Scott M. Damrauer, MD

William Maul Measey Associate Professor of Surgery II

Department: Surgery

Graduate Group Affiliations

Contact information

Division of Vascular Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street, 14th Floor South Perelman Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-615-1698
Fax: 215-614-0463

Education:
AB
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
MD
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 2004.

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Selected Publications

Cho, S. M. J., Levin, M., Chen, R., Samarakoon, R., Judy, R., Hartmann, K., Postupaka, D., Viscosi, V., Farber-Eger, E., Fahed, A. C., Honigberg, M. C., Patel, C. J., Hornsby, W., Wells, Q. S., Damrauer, S. M.*, Do, R.* & Natarajan, P. *: AHA PREVENT Equations and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Diverse Health Care Population. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 86(3): 181-192, July 2025 Notes: Epub ahead of print Jul 14; *Equally contributing coauthor.

Tuteja S, O'Brien WJ, Ferraro JP, Damrauer SM, Itani KMF, Voight BF, Teerlink CC, Lynch JA, DuVall SL, Strebel T, Kim MJ, Wilson MA, Barrett TW; Million Veteran Program.: Drug-Gene Interactions and Clinical Outcomes After Vascular Surgery in the Million Veteran Program. JAMA Surg 160: 804-813, Jul 2025.

Beeche C, Kim J, Tavolinejad H, Zhao B, Sharma R, Duda J, Gee J, Dako F, Verma A, Morse C, Hou B, Shen L, Sagreiya H, Davatzikos C, Damrauer S, Ritchie MD, Rader D, Long Q, Chen T, Kahn CE, Chirinos J, Witschey WR; Penn Medicine Biobank.: A Pan-Organ Vision-Language Model for Generalizable 3D CT Representations. medRxiv Jul 2025.

Yuan S, Chen J, Ruan X, Li Y, Abramowitz SA, Wang L, Jiang F, Xiong Y, Levin MG, Voight BF, Gill D, Burgess S, Åkesson A, Michaëlsson K, Li X, Damrauer SM*, Larsson SC*: Cross-population GWAS and proteomics improve risk prediction and reveal mechanisms in atrial fibrillation. Nat Commun. 16(1): 6426, Jul 2025 Notes: * Equally contributing coauthor.

Riley, T. R., Wheeler, A. M., Cannon, G. W., Sauer, B., Wysham, K. D., England, B. R., Wipfler, K., Michaud, K., March, M., Damrauer, S. M., Verma, A., George, M. D., Mikuls, T. R., & Baker, J. F.: Genetically-determined variation in C-reactive protein impacts disease activity assessment in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 64(6): 3921-3928, Jun 2025.

Gold JI, Kripke CM; Regeneron Genetics Center; Penn Medicine BioBank; Drivas TG.: Exclusion-based exome sequencing in critically ill adults 18-40 years old has a 24% diagnostic rate and finds racial disparities in access to genetic testing. Am J Hum Genet Jun 2025.

Abramowitz SA, Hoffman-Andrews L, Zhang D, Judy R, Cappola TP, Day SM, Reza N, Owens AT, Damrauer SM, Levin MG.: Polygenic Background and Penetrance of Pathogenic Variants in Hypertrophic and Dilated Cardiomyopathies. medRxiv Jun 2025.

Wolford BN, Zhao QY, Wu KH, Yu X, Richter CE, Bhatta L, Brumpton BM, Desch KC, Thibord F, Klarin D, Johnson AD, Tregouet DA, Damrauer SM, Smith NL, Lo Faro V, Tsuo K, Daly M, Neale B, Zhou W, Willer CJ, Shavit JA, Surakka I.: Multi-population GWAS for venous thromboembolism identifies novel loci followed by experimental validation in zebrafish. Blood Adv Jun 2025.

DePaolo J, Bornstein MR, Judy R, Abramowitz S, Verma SS, Levin MG, Biobank PM, Arany Z, Damrauer SM.: Titin-Truncating variants predispose to dilated cardiomyopathy in populations genetically similar to african and european reference populations. PLoS Genet 21: e1011727, Jun 2025.

Adkar SS, Lynch J, Choi RB, Roychowdhury T, Judy RL, Paruchuri K, Go DC, Bamezai S, Cabot J, Sorondo S, Levin MG, Milewicz DM, Willer CJ, Natarajan P, Pyarajan S, Chang KM, Damrauer S, Tsao P, Skirboll S, Leeper NJ, Klarin D.: Dissecting the Genetic Architecture of Intracranial Aneurysms. Circulation Genomic and precision Medicine 18(3): e004626, Jun 2025.