Chethan Puttarajappa is a Nephrology physician affiliated with University of Pittsburgh. OpenAlex indexes 90 publications with 1,030 citations (h-index 16).
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
3459 5th Ave
Upmc Montefiore
Pittsburgh, PA 152133236
Telephone
412-647-5800Provider last certified this registry record 10 Jun 2021.
Industry payments
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.Program year20251 payment
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2022)
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.
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
53.6%Corticosteroid53.6%Prednisone100%Part D<11 patientsAnti-infectives
46.4%Short-acting sulfonamides46.4%Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim100%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 2019–2023 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Utility of virtual crossmatch in deceased donor kidney transplantation
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
FY2023$161,252K08DK119576 - Utility of virtual crossmatch in deceased donor kidney transplantation
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
FY2022$161,684K08DK119576 - Utility of virtual crossmatch in deceased donor kidney transplantation
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
FY2021$162,031K08DK119576
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.
- Practices in the management of kidney transplant candidates and recipients with obesity: A survey of United States transplant programs
American Journal of Transplantation
2025 - The Association of Epstein–Barr Virus Donor and Recipient Serostatus With Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation
Annals of Internal Medicine
2025 - Population Health Management for Improving Kidney Health Outcomes
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
2025 - Economic evaluation of weight loss and transplantation strategies for kidney transplant candidates with obesity
American Journal of Transplantation
2024
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