Faculty

Michelle Denburg, MD, MSCE

Associate 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

Email:
denburgm@email.chop.edu

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

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.

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.

Denburg MR, Goodwin Davies AJ, Maltenfort MG, Mitsnefes MM, Flynn JT, Neu AM, Dixon BP, Glenn DA, Gluck CA, Harshman LA, Pefkaros Katsoufis C, 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, on behalf of the PRESERVE study consortium: Comparative Effectiveness of Antihypertensive Medications in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease. JAMA Pediatrics March 2026.

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.

Meredith A Atkinson, Joyce C Chang, Amy Goodwin Davies, Mitchell Maltenfort, Ingrid Y Luna, Rebecca Scobell, Mark Mitsnefes, Brian R Stotter, Vikas R Dharnidharka, Bradley P Dixon, Joseph T Flynn, Caroline Gluck, Mahmoud Kallash, William E Smoyer, Hanieh Razzaghi, L Charles Bailey, Susan L Furth, Christopher B Forrest, Michelle R Denburg, Scott E Wenderfer: Using a multi-institutional pediatric learning health system to characterize induction therapy for incident lupus nephritis in children. Pediatr Nephrol Dec 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s00467-025-07025-4. Online ahead of print.

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.

Denburg MR, Hirabayashi K, Davies AG, Razzaghi H, Dharnidharka VR, Dixon BP, Flynn JT, Gluck CA, Mitsnefes MM, Smoyer WE, Furth SL, Forrest CB: Utilization of anti-CD20 antibodies for treatment of childhood nephrotic syndrome, 2010 to 2022. Pediatr Nephrol 40(10): 3121-3127, Oct 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s00467-025-06811-4. Epub 2025 Jun 5.

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. 2025 Sep 24:S0085-2538(25)00747-1. S0085-2538(25): 00747-1, Sep 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2025.09.009. Online ahead of print.

Strong AE, Rudolph K, Denburg MR, Badheka A.: Hemolysis Monitoring Practices during ECMO: A Survey Report. Blood Purif Sep 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1159/000548469. Online ahead of print.

Oni L, Smoyer WE, Denburg M, Bjornstad P, Tarnoff J, LimD MD, Trachtman H: The Use of Extrapolation to Promote Clinical Trials in Pediatric Nephrology. J Am Soc Nephrol Sep 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1681/ASN.0000000888. Online ahead of print.