Sarah M. Schmid

About the Author

Dr. Schmid is on faculty as a clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her DVM at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her small animal rotating internship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Schmid went on to complete a small animal internal medicine residency at the University of Tennessee. Her interests include protein-losing diseases and teaching.

Updated December 2021

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Gastroenterology

Hold That Steroid! Diet Trials for Chronic Enteropathy

Diet trials are the first-line approach to both diagnosis and treatment of chronic enteropathy and could help patients avoid the need for immunosuppressive therapy.

Urology & Renal Medicine

When Urine Trouble: A Clinical Approach to Proteinuria

In addition to promoting progression of kidney disease, persistent proteinuria has several extrarenal consequences, therefore incidental proteinuria on routine diagnostic workups and geriatric screens should not be ignored.

Internal Medicine

Essential to Every Cell: Cobalamin in Health and Disease

Cobalamin, commonly known as vitamin B12, is a water-soluble vitamin used by every cell in the body, thus is required for maintenance of normal physiologic functions. Given cobalamin’s essential role in health, it follows that cobalamin-deficient states, or hypocobalaminemia, can contribute to disease pathophysiology.