Sarah J. Swartz, MD

Dr. Swartz provides care for children with all types of kidney disease and conditions including chronic kidney disease, end stage renal disease, dialysis, transplantation, renal failure from other diseases, nephrotic syndrome, kidney and urinary anomalies, and hypertension. As Medical Director of the Dialysis Unit, she focuses on providing comprehensive and individualized care centered not only on the medical aspects of care but also on the child’s development and growth. She is dedicated to provide the highest possible quality of care to children requiring dialysis. To this end she has developed multiple quality improvement initiatives for children with ESRD. Nationally, she is involved in the Children's Hospital Association Standardizing Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Collaborative, whose goal is to improve care and reduce infection rates in children on peritoneal and hemodialysis. She is also engaged on a national health care policy level advocating for pediatric patients with renal disease.

Clinical Interests

• End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD)

• Hemodialysis

• Peritoneal dialysis

Education

Organizations

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Highlights

Apr 30, 2024

Dual Organ Transplant Brings New Life to 4-Year-Old

Research interests

• Dialysis access

• Outcomes in Pediatric End Stage Kidney Disease ESKD

• Mid-aortic syndrome

• Clinical trials in chronic kidney disease (CKD)

Opina AD, Qureshi AM, Brewer E, Elenberg E, Swartz S, Michael M, Justino H. Intra-procedural continuous dialysis to facilitate interventional catheterization in pediatric patients with severe renal failure. Catheterization Cardiovascular Interventions 90(5):784-9, PubMed PMID: 28699323, 2017.

Chand DH, Swartz S, Tuchman S, Valentini RP, Somers MJ. Dialysis in Children and Adolescents: The Pediatric Nephrology Perspective. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 69(2):278-286. PubMed PMID: 27940060, 2017.

Wu X, Vega M, Swartz SJ, Michael M. Milky appearance of peritoneal fluid in a neonate on peritoneal dialysis due to end-stage renal disease: Question and Answers. Pediatric Nephrology 33(1)71-76. PubMed PMIDs: 28283761, 28283762, 2017.

Brewer ED, Swartz SJ. Evaluation of hypertension in childhood diseases. In: Pediatric Nephrology (Avner ED, Harmon WE, Niaudet P, Yoshikawa N, Emma F, Goldstein SL, eds). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Publishing, 7th edition, pp1997-2022, ISBN 978-3-662-43595-3, 2016.

Schnaper HW, Schubert K, Perlman SA, Clark SL, Hains DS, Roach JL, Swartz SJ, et al. Training the Next Generation of Pediatric Nephrology Advocates: The John E Lewy Foundation Advocacy Scholars Program. Journal of Pediatrics 166(2):218-9.e1. PubMed PMID: 2562050.

ViiCTR Profile: 

Brewer ED, Swartz SJ. Evaluation of hypertension in childhood diseases. In: Pediatric Nephrology (Avner ED, Harmon WE, Niaudet P, Yoshikawa N, Emma F, Goldstein SL, eds). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Publishing, 7th edition, pp1997-2022, ISBN 978-3-662-43595-3, 2016.

Schnaper HW, Schubert K, Perlman SA, Clark SL, Hains DS, Roach JL, Swartz SJ, et al. Training the Next Generation of Pediatric Nephrology Advocates: The John E Lewy Foundation Advocacy Scholars Program. Journal of Pediatrics. 166(2):218-9.e1. PubMed PMID: 2562050.

ViiCTR Profile: https://profiles.viictr.org/display/BCM/sarah-swartz