Scott M. Damrauer, MD

Wound Care, Vascular Surgery
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Heart and Vascular Center
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About me

  • Vice Chair of Clinical Research, Department of Surgery
  • William Maul Measey Associate Professor of Surgery II
  • Associate Professor of Genetics

My education and training

  • Medical School: Harvard Medical School
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English

Reviews

Average Rating

141 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

Anonymous
March 2026
excellent surgeon.
Anonymous
March 2026
he was very genuine and gave practical advise
Anonymous
February 2026
great bedside manner
Anonymous
February 2026
i fell at the door to my appointment for vein scan.i stuck on the floor fell face first hit chin teeth nose did test then to dr scott he very informative then my fall got worse dr had someone take me er

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Damrauer is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Challa S, Biddinger K, Abramowitz S, Zheng A, Mead JO, Judy RL, Jurgens S, Gaziano L, Wang X, Choi SH, Halford J, Jordan E, Liu J; VA Million Veteran Program; Penn Medicine Biobank; Chang KM, Vest A, Tang WHW, Tsao P, Kinnamon DD, Damrauer SM, Ellinor PT, Levin M, Hershberger RE, Huffman JE, Aragam KG. A Common CD36 Variant and the Genetic Landscape of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Individuals of African Ancestry , medRxiv: 2026


Riley TR 4th, Kotzin JJ, Park DJ, Banerjee S, Takanohashi A, Vanderver A; Penn Medicine Biobank; Baker JF, Finck AV, Miner JJ. Adult-onset STING-associated vasculopathy , J Hum Immun, 2: 2026,e20250235


Huang J, Meena D, Achtari M, Smith A, Judy R, Mimouni N, Bis JC, Franceschini N, Fung K, Munroe PB, Damrauer SM, Tzoulaki I, Dehghan A. Shared proteomic landscape between arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular endpoints: a Mendelian randomization and observational study integrating AlphaFold3 for structural prediction , Cardiovasc Res: 2026


Jurgens SJ, Enzan N, Dinsmore IR, Choi SH, Luo J, Lipov A, Hartle C, Wang X, Marston NA, Weng LC, Melloni GE, Chalazan B, Gray MP, Pirruccello JP, Diaz A, Chaffin MD, Ornelas-Loredo A, Tang O, Darbar FA, Kany S, Chen Y, von Falkenhausen AS, Morrison AC, Natale A, Tveit A, Geelhoed B, Cade B, Van Wagoner DR, Haase D, Soliman EZ, Davogustto GE, Calkins H, Anderson JL, Brody JA, Barnard J, Hokanson JE, Smith JD, Bis JC, Young K, Johnson LS, Long L, Risch L, Gula LJ, Kwee LC, Kühne M, Preuss M, Gupta N, Nafissi NA, Smith NL, Nilsson PM, van der Harst P, Wells QS, Judy RL, Schnabel RB, Johnson R, Smit RA, Gabriel S, Knight S, Furukawa T, Min YI, Yoneda ZT, Laksman ZW, Alonso A, Psaty BM, Albert CM, Arking DE, Roden DM, Chasman DI, Rader DJ, Conen D, McManus DD, Fatkin D, Boerwinkle E, Marcus GM, Christophersen IE, Smith JG, Roberts JD, Raffield LM, Shoemaker MB, Cho MH, Cutler MJ, Chung MK, Olesen MS, Sinner MF, Sotoodehnia N, Kirchhof P, Loos RJ, Nazarian S, Mohanty S, Damrauer SM, Kaab S, Heckbert SR, Redline S, Shah SH, Tanaka T, Ebana Y; Regeneron Genetics Center; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium; Lubitz SA, Lunetta KL, et al. Rare coding variant architecture and gene discovery from 130,000 sequenced cases of atrial fibrillation , Res Sq: 2026


Pregnall AM, Yuan S, Lawrence JM, Abramowitz SA, DePaolo J, Judy R, Shakt G, Levin MG, Damrauer SM, Wachtel H. Decoding the genetic architecture of hernia through genome-wide association and multi-trait analyses , medRxiv: 2026


Winters A, Judy R, Chahal CAA, Dabbagh GS, Shah RA, Damrauer S, Kelly MA, James CA, Tichnell C, Murray B, Smelser D, Rao HS, Carey DJ, Haggerty CM, Carruth ED. Evidence of variations in genetic prevalence for loss-of-function PKP2 variants between individuals with European and African ancestry , Genet Med Open, 4: 2026,104397


DePaolo J, Guo DC, Murdock DR, Cecchi AC, LeMaire SA, Shen HY, Estrera AL, Safi HJ, Coselli JS, Smith J, Bamshad MJ, Damrauer S, Milewicz DM. Using bioinformatic tools to identify high-risk variants of uncertain significance in aortopathy genes that increase aortic dissection risk , Genet Med, 28: 2026,102571


Mandla R, Li X, Shi Z, Abramowitz SA, Lapinska S; Penn Medicine Biobank; Levin MG, Damrauer SM, Pasaniuc B. Statistical uncertainty explains the poor agreement in polygenic scoring for type 2 diabetes , medRxiv: 2026


Hartmann K, Beeche C, Judy R, DePietro DM, Witschey WR, Duda J, Gee J, Gade T, Biobank PM, Levin MG, Damrauer SM. Portal Vein Diameter on Routine Clinical CT: Establishing Normals and Disease Associations , medRxiv: 2026


Yuan S, Björnson E, Shakt G, Dinatale T, Lynch JA, Temel RE, Lu HS, Daugherty A; VA Million Veteran Program; Chang KM, Tsao P, Adkar S, Levin MG, Damrauer SM, Leeper NJ. Triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, low-density lipoproteins, and risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm , medRxiv: 2026