Benjamin Byrd is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Vanderbilt University. OpenAlex indexes 113 publications with 12,509 citations (h-index 32). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Cardiovascular Disease profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Contact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
3601 The Vanderbilt Clinic
Nashville, TN 372320001
Telephone
615-322-3000Provider last certified this registry record 27 Dec 2025.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)
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.
Cardiovascular
75.5%Statin21%Atorvastatin Calcium78%Rosuvastatin Calcium23%Part D≥41 patientsBeta blocker16.6%Metoprolol Succinate63%Atenolol24%Carvedilol13%Part D<11 patients+ 10 more classes in this area
Blood & clotting
20.1%Factor Xa inhibitor10.7%Eliquis100%Part D≥20 patientsVitamin K antagonist6.3%Warfarin Sodium100%Part D≥13 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
4.3%Potassium supplement2.4%Potassium Chloride100%Part D<11 patientsSGLT2 inhibitor2%Farxiga100%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.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- Echocardiographic evaluation of diastolic function in the setting of pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary Circulation
2019 - Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
2016 - The Effects of Long-Term Estrogen Administration to Women following Hysterectomy
Frontiers of hormone research
2015
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