Gary Schaer is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Rush University Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 123 publications with 7,309 citations (h-index 34). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Interventional Cardiology profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
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).
Medicare prescribing footprint (2023)
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
90.7%Statin22.1%Atorvastatin Calcium51%Rosuvastatin Calcium47%Pravastatin Sodium3%Part D≥213 patientsBeta blocker16.4%Metoprolol Succinate59%Carvedilol35%Metoprolol Tartrate6%Part D≥169 patients+ 15 more classes in this area
Blood & clotting
5.2%Factor Xa inhibitor4%Eliquis60%Xarelto41%Part D≥41 patientsP2Y12 inhibitor0.8%Clopidogrel100%Part D≥16 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
4.1%SGLT2 inhibitor2.5%Jardiance100%Part D≥48 patientsPotassium supplement1.7%Potassium Chloride74%Klor-Con M1026%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.
- Near Complete Repair After Myocardial Infarction in Adult Mice by Altering the Inflammatory Response With Intramyocardial Injection of α-Gal Nanoparticles
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
2021 - First-in-Man Study of a Cardiac Extracellular Matrix Hydrogel in Early and Late Myocardial Infarction Patients
JACC Basic to Translational Science
2019 - Cangrelor With and Without Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2017
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