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Michelle Denburg, MD, MSCE

Professor of Pediatrics (Nephrology) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Nephrology
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
B.S.
Yale University (Biology, Intensive Research Track), 1998.
M.D.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 2003.
M.S.C.E. (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2010.
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Selected Publications

Dixon BP, Laskin BL, Goodwin Davies AJ, Razzaghi H, Maltenfort MG, Meloni S, Thomas ME, Flynn JT, Claes DJ, Mitsnefes M, Stotter BR, Dharnidharka VR, Gluck CA, Zaritsky J, Somers MJ, Kallash M, Smoyer WE, Furth SL, Forrest CB, Denburg MR: Natural History of C3 Glomerulopathy and Immune Complex-Associated Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis in Children. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Jun 2026 Notes: doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000001118. Epub ahead of print.

Wendy C. Bravo, Yimei Li, Tamara P. Miller, Kelly Getz, Lusha Cao, Edward Krause, Mark Ramos, Judy Lee, Maria Monica Gramatges, Karen R. Rabin, Michael Scheurer, Richard Aplenc, Michelle Denburg: Racial, Ethnic, and Neighborhood Disparities in Acute Kidney Injury in Pediatric Acute Leukemia. Cancer Medicine May 2026 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.71937.

Dorey A Glenn, Morgan Botdorf, Andrea Allen, Kimberley Dickinson, Kaleigh Wieand, Amy Goodwin Davies, Victoria Besser, Bradley P Dixon, Caroline Gluck, John Hammond, Lyndsay Harshman, Mahmoud Kallash, Chryso Katsoufis, Sara Kibrom, Alexander Kula, Mark Mitsnefes, Yosuke Miyashita, Zubin Modi, Larry Patterson, Michelle R Denburg, Christopher B Forrest, Jarcy Zee: Blood Pressure Control in Adolescents With CKD and Risk of Kidney Failure in Young Adulthood Kidney Med 8(7): 101388, May 2026 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2026.101388. eCollection 2026 Jul.

Denburg MR, Goodwin Davies AJ, Maltenfort MG, Mitsnefes MM, Flynn JT, Neu AM, Dixon BP, Glenn DA, Gluck CA, Harshman LA, Katsoufis CP, Leonard MB, Modi ZJ, Pan CG, Patel HP, Patterson LT, Verghese PS, Wilson AC, Jovanovska A, Levondosky R, Levondosky M, Dickinson K, Wieand K, Razzaghi H, Li L, Chen Y, Forrest CB; PRESERVE consortium.: Comparative Effectiveness of Antihypertensive Medications in Children With Chronic Kidney Disease. JAMA Pediatr 180: 546-555, May 2026.

Lee AM, Mitsnefes MM, Roem J, Warady BA, Furth SL, Denburg MR; CKiD Study Investigators: Bile acid metabolites and carotid intima media thickness in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) study. Pediatr Nephrol May 2026 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s00467-026-07343-1. Epub ahead of print.

Hughes A, Matus Gonzalez A, van Zwieten A, Guha C, Carter S, Coghlan D, Dominello A, Recabarren Silva J, Craig JC, Howell M, Kim S, Manera K, O'Reilly C, Rejuso A, Sautenet B, Scholes-Robertson N, Sluiter A, Wu R, Wong G, McCulloch M, Armijo N, Atilano-Carsi X, de la Cerda P, Gallardo Letelier GA, Galvez C, Gonzalez-Agüero N, Maldonado M, Pinto V, Reyes L, Rodriguez L, Rojo A, Sepúlveda A, Torrisi LG, Viecelli AK, Admani B, Foster BJ, Hamilton AJ, Jankauskiene A, Johnson RJ, Kerklaan J, Liu I, Marks SD, Neu A, Schaefer F, Wolfenden S, Jaure A; SONG-Kids Life Participation Workshop Investigators: Establishing a core outcome measure for life participation in children with chronic kidney disease: a Standardized Outcomes in Nephrology-children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease (SONG-Kids) consensus workshop report. Kidney Int 109(2): 273-282, Feb 2026 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2025.09.035. Epub 2025 Nov 25.

Strong AE, Rudolph K, Denburg MR, Badheka A.: Hemolysis Monitoring Practices during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Survey Report. Blood Purif 2026.

Atkinson MA, Chang JC, Davies AG, Maltenfort M, Luna IY, Scobell R, Mitsnefes M, Stotter BR, Dharnidharka VR, Dixon BP, Flynn JT, Gluck C, Kallash M, Smoyer WE, Razzaghi H, Bailey LC, Furth SL, Forrest CB, Denburg MR, Wenderfer SE.: Using a multi-institutional pediatric learning health system to characterize induction therapy for incident lupus nephritis in children. Pediatr Nephrol 2026.

Smoyer WE, Gillespie BS, Oni L, Nester C, Nelson RG, Bjornstad P, Heerspink HJL, Denburg M, Gross O, Marquard J, Steubl D, Lim MD, Creighton C, Balogun S, Eva L, Helm K, Tarnoff JM, Tuchman S, Khurana M, Mulugeta L, Yao L, Mistry K, Thompson A, Trachtman H.: Strategies for the development of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors for kidney protection in pediatric chronic kidney disease: proceedings of a workshop meeting in July 2023. Kidney Int 2026.

Hasson DC, Surapaneni A, Rebholz CM, Greenberg JH, Goncalves M, Ng DK, Lee AM, Furth SL, Denburg MR, Grams ME; CKiD Study Investigators. : Association of Dietary Micronutrient Intake and the Metabolome in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 20(11): 1536-1548, Nov 2025 Notes: doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000811. Epub 2025 Sep 5.

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