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Sarah J Schrauben, MD, MSCE

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Department of Medicine
Division of Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension
3400 Spruce Street
1 Founders, Renal Suite
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Education
BS (Human Biology)
Michigan State University, 2007.
MD (Medicine)
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, 2011.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
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Selected Publications

Markillie JH, Tinaikar S, Cohen SH, Schrauben SJ: Videoconferencing for Physical Function Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. Kidney360 July 2026 Notes: Online ahead of print.

Schrauben SJ, Brown R, Shlipak MG, Tangri N, Zhang X, Nair D, Leonard MB, Bauer S, Lash JP, Balantrapu S, Ash G, Fischer MJ, Navaneethan S, Rincon Choles , Chen J, Hamm LL, Appel LJ, Yang W: Physical Function Decline among Adults with Moderate to Severe CKD. KI Reports 11(7): 106584, May 2026.

Peschard VG, Yang W, Zhang Z, Shlipak MG, Brown RT, Tangri N, Lagunes AC, Unruh ML, Taliercio JJ, Weir MR, Rincon-Choles H, He J, Chen J, Tamura MK, Lash JP, Schrauben SJ: Relationship Between Baseline and Longitudinal Self-Reported Physical Function and Cardiorenal Outcomes in CKD: Findings From the CRIC Study Am J Kidney Dis 87(5): 688-697, May 2026.

Devika Nair, Rebecca T. Brown, Michael G. Shlipak, Navdeep Tangri, Xiaoming Zhang, Mary F. Hannan, Mary B. Leonard, James P Lash, Sankar D. Navaneethan, Jing Chen, Jiang He, Lawrence J Appel, Hernan Rincon-Choles, Mayank Kansal, Wei Yang, Sarah Schrauben: Physical Performance and Risk of Heart Failure, Kidney Failure, and Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease Clin J Soc Nephrol in press, 2026.

Limonte CP, Schaub JA, Fallegger F, Menon R, Schmidt IM, de Boer IH, Parikh C, Alpers CE, Luiza Caramori M, Rosas S, Mottl A, Brosius F, Tuttle K, Lash JP, Saez-Rodriguez, Mariani LH, Ricardo AC, Eadon MT, Ju W, Henderson J, Barisoni L, Hodgin JB, Zelnick LR, Sharma K, Spaggins J, Srivastava A, Schrauben SJ, Weiz M, Hsu C-Y, Kelly T, Taliercio J, Rincon-Choles H, Dubin R, Cohen DL, Xie D, Chen J, He J, Anderson AH, Kretzler M, Himmelfarb J: Redefining kidney disease: Clinico-pathological and molecular findings from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project. medRxiv 2026.

Markillie J, Tinaikar S, Cohen S, Schrauben S: Assessing the Validity of Videoconferencing to Measure Physical Function in People with Chronic Kidney Disease. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 60(Suppl 1): S43, 2026.

White DM, Kimmel PL, Dember LM, Wilkie C, Edwards DP, Williams J, Bernardo L, Quintana N, Cheatle MD, Lash JP, Fischer M, Schmidt R, Doorenbos A, Schrauben SJ, Johansen KL: Correction to: Fall Risk in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: A Secondary Analysis of the HOPE Consortium Trial. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 20(11): 1645, November 2025.

David M White, Paul L Kimmel, Laura M Dember, Caroline Wilkie, Dawn P Edwards, Joel Williams, Leah Bernardo, Nina Quintana, Martin D Cheatle, James P Lash, Michael J Fischer, Rebecca Schmidt, Ardith Doorenbos, Sarah Schrauben, Kirsten L Johansen; HOPE Consortium, a member of the HEAL Initiative: Patient Engagement in the Design and Conduct of the HOPE Trial: Addressing Chronic Pain in Hemodialysis Patients Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 20(10): 1461-1469, October 2025 Notes: Epub 2025 Aug 18.

Bharwani S, Xu Y, Greenberg JH, Abraham AG, Schelling JR, Coca SG, Schrauben SJ, Waikar SS, Gutierrez OM, Shlipak M, Ix JH, Warady BA, Kimmel PL, Bonventre JV, Parikh CR, Denburg M, Furth SL, Ramachandran VS, Krasnow E: Association of Urine Uromodulin CKD Progression in Children. J Am Soc Nephrol 36(10S), Oct 2025.

Schrauben SJ, Nair D, Brown RT, Zhang X, Shlipak M, Tangri N, Yang W: Longitudinal Measures of Short Physical Performance Battery and Risk for CKD Progression and Death. J Am Soc Nephrol 36(10S), Oct 2025.

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