Elyse Foster is a Cardiology physician affiliated with University of California, San Francisco. OpenAlex indexes 324 publications with 77,849 citations (h-index 82). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 5% of Cardiovascular Disease profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
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
350 Parnassus Ave
San Francisco, CA 941430001
Telephone
415-353-2873Registry record last updated 14 Dec 2016.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2021)
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
83.3%Statin40.9%Atorvastatin Calcium100%Part D<11 patientsAngiotensin receptor blocker (ARB)22.7%Losartan Potassium100%Part D<11 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Genitourinary & hormones
16.7%Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitor16.7%Revatio100%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 2000–2000 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.
- Recommendations for Noninvasive Evaluation of Native Valvular Regurgitation
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
2017 - Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
2015 - Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
2015 - Randomized Comparison of Percutaneous Repair and Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2015
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