Howard Mertz is a Gastroenterology physician affiliated with Vanderbilt University. OpenAlex indexes 70 publications with 5,263 citations (h-index 24).
Overview
Scholarship
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Total citations across indexed works.
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Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
4230 Harding Road
Suite 309 Medical Plaza West
Nashville, TN 372052013
Telephone
615-383-0165Registry record last updated 16 Dec 2015.
Industry payments
47 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- ABBVIE INC.Program year202569 payments
- Janssen Biotech, Inc.Program year202519 payments
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.Program year202516 payments
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
NIH funding
2 NIH research awards on record, funded 1999–2004 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Can Benzodiazepines Normalize Rectal Pain induced Brain Activation Abnormalities
Vanderbilt University
FY2004$550M01RR000095
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.
- Electronic Health Record Reform: An Alternative Response to Physician Burnout
The American Journal of Medicine
2021 - Tu1680 MAnagement of Patients With Pancreatic Cysts Using Integrated Molecular Pathology
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
2015 - Clinical Utility of Integrated Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Determining the Malignant Potential of Pancreatic Cysts
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
2014
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