Farsad Afshinnia is a Nephrology physician affiliated with University of Michigan. OpenAlex indexes 78 publications with 2,490 citations (h-index 28).
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
1500 E Medical Center Dr
Ann Arbor, MI 481095000
Telephone
734-936-4000Registry record last updated 5 Dec 2019.
Industry payments
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.Program year20231 payment
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.Program year20224 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.
Cardiovascular
62.7%Calcium channel blocker25.4%Amlodipine Besylate100%Part D<11 patientsLoop diuretic19.4%Furosemide100%Part D<11 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
37.3%SGLT2 inhibitor19.4%Jardiance100%Part D<11 patientsVitamin D3 Analog17.9%Calcitriol100%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
4 NIH research awards on record, funded 2015–2022 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Lipidomic predictors of heart failure in chronic kidney disease
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
FY2022$146,033R56HL156829 - Role of Acetyl CoA carboxylase in type 2 diabetic kidney disease
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
FY2020$101,400R56DK126647 - Lipidomic Predictors of Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression in Patients with Type-1 Diabetes
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
FY2020$81,297R03DK121941
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.
- Low concentrations of medium-sized HDL particles predict incident CVD in chronic kidney disease patients
Journal of Lipid Research
2023 - Tubular dysfunction impairs renal excretion of pseudouridine in diabetic kidney disease
American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology
2023 - High-Throughput Metabolomics and Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression: Evidence from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency (CRIC) Study
American Journal of Nephrology
2022 - Serum lipidomic determinants of human diabetic neuropathy in type 2 diabetes
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
2022
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