Sarah Urvashi Kumar, MD
Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Program Director, Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care
My education and training
- Drexel University College of MedicineMedical School
- Albert Einstein Medical CenterResidency
- University of Maryland Medical CenterResidency
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship
Spoken languages
English
English
हिन्दी
Hindi
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Kumar is a Penn Medicine physician.
Qualifications and experience
- Anesthesiology - Critical Care, 2021
- Anesthesiology, 2021
- American Society of Anesthesiologists, National
- Association of University Anesthesiologists, National
- Society for Education in Anesthesia, National
- Society of Academic Associations of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, National
- Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, National
- Society of Critical Care Medicine, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
John G. Augoustides, Sarah U. Kumar, Michael Mazzeffi Vasoplegia in Cardiac Surgery: Progress in Definition, Etiology, and Integrated Therapy , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 39(7): 2025,1830-1831
Chen J, Kang O, Henderson A, Kumar S, Valentine E, Joseph TT, Hong Yan H, Liu H. Oxygen Monitoring , Modern Monitoring in Perioperative Medicine: 2025,305-320
Aaron Henderson and Sarah Kumar, edited by Henry Liu and Alan D. Kaye Perioperative Hemodynamic Monitoring , Modern Monitoring in Perioperative Medicine: 2025,407-440
Joyce B. Kang, Kaylin Beiter, Travis Benson, Emily Hejazi, Andrew Friedman, Sofia Barrios, Sarah U. Kumar, Xiaowei Xu, Misha Rosenbach, Late-season Vibrio vulnificus infection leading to purpura fulminans , Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology: 2025
Sarah Urvashi Kumar, Jesse James Kiefer, Vivek Moitra, Christopher Migliore, Mustafa Rasheed, John Wallisch, Andrew Gessouroun, Brigid C Flynn The Year in Cardiothoracic Critical Care: Highlighted Publications From 2023 , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia: 2024,2900-2905
Sarah U. Kumar, John G. Augoustides, Jesse J. Kiefer Integrating Simulation into the Learning Curriculum to Enhance Competency , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia: 2024,2184-2186
Hoffman CR, Kumar S, Weber N, Purohit M, Sinha A Postoperative visual loss following general anesthesia for creation of an arterio-venous fistula , Ophthalmic Anaesthesia, 5: 2015,3-4