Helen Lavretsky is a Psychiatry physician affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles. OpenAlex indexes 424 publications with 15,636 citations (h-index 57); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 6 registered studies matched to this name. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Psychiatry 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).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
300 Ucla Medical Plz Ste 2200
Los Angeles, CA 900958353
Telephone
310-794-4619Provider last certified this registry record 17 Jul 2024.
Clinical trials
- A Pilot rTMS Trial for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Long-COVID
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
- FDDNP Protocol for Visualizing Brain Proteinopathies to Assist in the Diagnosis of Persons With Suspected CTE and AD
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
- Reducing Risk for Alzheimer's Disease in High-Risk Women Through Yogic Meditation Training
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
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
2 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Eisai Inc.Program year20231 payment
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.Program year20231 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.
Nervous system
100%SNRI26.2%Duloxetine Hcl67%Venlafaxine Hcl Er33%Part D<11 patientsSSRI19.3%Trazodone Hcl61%Escitalopram Oxalate39%Part D<11 patients+ 5 more classes in this area
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
10 NIH research awards on record, funded 2001–2025 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Mentoring and Research in Translational Science of Integrative Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
FY2025$149,550K24AT009198 - Mentoring and Research in Translational Science of Integrative Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
FY2024$149,550K24AT009198 - 4/5 Neurocognitive and neuroimaging biomarkers: predicting progression towards dementia in late-life depression
University of California Los Angeles
FY2021$206,942R01MH114981
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.
- Antidepressant Augmentation versus Switch in Treatment-Resistant Geriatric Depression
New England Journal of Medicine
2023
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