Christopher Tolleson is a Neurology physician affiliated with University of Tennessee Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 37 publications with 496 citations (h-index 12).
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex.
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
3601 The Vanderbilt Clinic
Nashville, TN 372320001
Telephone
615-322-3000Registry record last updated 25 Apr 2012.
Industry payments
30 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Program year20254 payments
- ABBVIE INC.Program year20256 payments
- Boston Scientific CorporationProgram year20252 payments
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.
Nervous system
88.4%Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylation Inhibitor33.1%Carbidopa-Levodopa73%Carbidopa-Levodopa Er18%Rytary8%Duopa1%Part D<11 patientsBenzodiazepine9.7%Clonazepam81%Alprazolam13%Diazepam4%Lorazepam3%Part D<11 patients+ 21 more classes in this area
Cardiovascular
2.9%alpha-Adrenergic Agonist1.7%Midodrine Hcl100%Part D≥30 patientsBeta blocker1.2%Propranolol Hcl54%Propranolol Hcl Er46%Part D≥14 patientsMetabolism & gastrointestinal
2.3%Guanylate Cyclase-C Agonist1.2%Linzess100%Part D≥15 patientsSerotonin-3 Receptor Antagonist0.7%Ondansetron Hcl100%Part D≥11 patients+ 1 more class in this area
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.
- Specific Bacterial Taxa and Their Metabolite, DHPS, Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
2024 - Confined Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation in Refractory Essential Tremor
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
2018
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