Cynthia Whitener is an Infectious Disease physician affiliated with Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 47 publications with 1,214 citations (h-index 18).
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
500 University Dr
Hershey, PA 170332360
Telephone
800-233-4082Registry record last updated 19 Apr 2010.
Industry payments
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Janssen Pharmaceuticals, IncProgram year20211 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.
Anti-infectives
96.3%Human Immunodeficiency Virus Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitor33.2%Isentress38%Tivicay35%Juluca27%Part D<11 patientsHuman Immunodeficiency Virus Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor20.2%Descovy75%Abacavir25%Part D<11 patients+ 8 more classes in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
3.7%Serotonin-3 Receptor Antagonist3.7%Ondansetron Odt100%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.
- People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences With Telemedicine
Health Promotion Practice
2021 - The effect of pulsed xenon ultraviolet light disinfection on healthcare-associated Clostridioides difficile rates in a tertiary care hospital
American Journal of Infection Control
2020 - Low Utilization of Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents in a Large National Cohort of HIV and HCV Coinfected Medicare Patients in the United States: Implications for HCV Elimination
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
2020
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