Alan Towne is a Neurology physician affiliated with Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 51 publications with 6,582 citations (h-index 25); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 2 registered studies matched to this name.
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
1250 E Marshall Street
Neurology
Richmond, VA 232980599
Telephone
804-828-9350Registry record last updated 8 Jul 2007.
Clinical trials
- Tolerability and Efficacy of Depakote-extended Release in the Elderly
Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
Registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov where the overall official or a site investigator name-matches this physician, confirmed against known institution/geography. Latest few shown; the full list is part of the full profile.
Industry payments
11 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- UCB, Inc.Program year20253 payments
- SK Life Science, Inc.Program year20251 payment
- Janssen Biotech, Inc.Program year20251 payment
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2021)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Nervous system
100%Other antiepileptics100%Levetiracetam100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
NIH funding
1 NIH research award on record, funded 2000–2002 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND MORTALITY OF STATUS EPILEPTICUS
Virginia Commonwealth University
FY2002$140,288P50NS025630 - PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND MORTALITY OF STATUS EPILEPTICUS
Virginia Commonwealth University
FY2001$140,288P50NS025630
Awards in the NIH RePORTER records where a principal investigator name matches this physician at an organization in their practice state. Latest award years shown; each row links to the project record on RePORTER.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
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A basic profile from our physician directory: identity and practice contact from the federal NPPES registry, research from OpenAlex, trials from ClinicalTrials.gov, payments from CMS Open Payments — shown itemized where we have matched records, as a count where we only have a total. This person hasn't been through our full identity-adjudication pipeline yet, so funding, congress activity and public presence aren't shown. Absence of a section means “not yet looked,” never “none found.”