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Darren McGuire, MD

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Parkland Health & Hospital System

ORCID↗NPI↗
RegionDallas, TX · South CentralSpecialtyCardiovascular DiseaseFocusCardiology
Active KOLfindmyKOL typefindmyKOL type: our influence ranking, shown when you reveal the full profileLatest publication2025Online presenceNot yet checkedPayments2021 onwardNIH funding2005–2007

Darren McGuire is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Parkland Health & Hospital System. OpenAlex indexes 795 publications with 107,110 citations (h-index 117); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 1 registered study matched to this name. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 1% of Cardiovascular Disease profiles in the findmyKOL directory.

Overview

Scholarship

indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
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795publications

Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID.

107,110citations

Total citations across indexed works.

117h-index

Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).

Clinical & industry

trials, payments and federal funding
1clinical trials

Investigator role on registered studies.

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46companies · 2021 onward

Companies reporting payments to CMS. Facts, not judgments.

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1NIH grants · 2005–2007

Federally funded research awards.

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Clinical trials

Registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov where the overall official or a site investigator name-matches this physician, confirmed against known institution/geography. Latest few shown; the full list is part of the full profile.

Industry payments

46 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:

46 companies with payments on record in CMS Open Payments (2021 onward), matched to this physician's NPI. The itemized breakdown by company, amount and year is part of the full profile. Why? →

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.

  • Cardiovascular

    100%
    Beta blocker34.4%
    Carvedilol100%
    Part D<11 patients
    Statin28.1%
    Atorvastatin Calcium100%
    Part D≥11 patients

    + 2 more classes in this area

Where care is delivered (Part B)100% facility · 0% office

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 2005–2007 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:

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.

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A basic profile from our physician directory: identity and practice contact from the federal NPPES registry, research from OpenAlex, trials from ClinicalTrials.gov, payments from CMS Open Payments — shown itemized where we have matched records, as a count where we only have a total. This person hasn't been through our full identity-adjudication pipeline yet, so funding, congress activity and public presence aren't shown. Absence of a section means “not yet looked,” never “none found.”