Sarah Urvashi Kumar, MD
Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Program Director, Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Education and training

  • Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
  • Residency: Albert Einstein Medical Center
  • Residency: University of Maryland Hospital
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My 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.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Kumar is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

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

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

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

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