Benjamin Wessler is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Tufts University. OpenAlex indexes 137 publications with 1,768 citations (h-index 20).
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
800 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111
Telephone
617-636-5000Provider last certified this registry record 5 Mar 2020.
Industry payments
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- PFIZER INC.Program year20251 payment
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
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
82.4%Beta blocker24.4%Metoprolol Succinate50%Metoprolol Tartrate34%Carvedilol16%Part D<11 patientsStatin14%Atorvastatin Calcium80%Rosuvastatin Calcium20%Part D<11 patients+ 7 more classes in this area
Blood & clotting
10.2%Factor Xa inhibitor10.2%Eliquis100%Part D<11 patientsMetabolism & gastrointestinal
7.4%SGLT2 inhibitor7.4%Jardiance100%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
3 NIH research awards on record, funded 2017–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Focused Imaging as a Novel Diagnostic Strategy for Aortic Stenosis
Tufts Medical Center
FY2026$734,888R01HL180937 - Focused Imaging as a Novel Diagnostic Strategy for Aortic Stenosis
Tufts Medical Center
FY2025$793,868R01HL180937 - Palliative Care for High-Risk TAVR Patients: The Impact of Multimorbidity
Tufts Medical Center
FY2022$184,964K23AG055667
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.
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Severe Aortic Stenosis by Echocardiography
The Permanente Journal
2024 - Performance of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer-4o in the Adult Clinical Cardiology Self-Assessment Program
European Heart Journal - Digital Health
2024 - Semi-Supervised Multimodal Multi-Instance Learning for Aortic Stenosis Diagnosis
arXiv (Cornell University)
2024
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