Husain Poonawala is an Infectious Disease physician affiliated with Tufts Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 28 publications with 244 citations (h-index 9).
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
800 Washington St
Boston, MA 021111552
Telephone
617-636-5000Provider last certified this registry record 17 Jun 2021.
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
76.9%Beta blocker22.4%Metoprolol Succinate57%Metoprolol Tartrate43%Part D≥15 patientsLoop diuretic20.1%Furosemide59%Torsemide41%Part D<11 patients+ 3 more classes in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
23.1%Corticosteroid11.9%Prednisone100%Part D≥16 patientsProton pump inhibitor11.2%Pantoprazole Sodium100%Part D≥13 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 2025–2025 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Developing a Transcriptomic Assay for Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium abscessus in Clinical Microbiology Laboratories
Tufts Medical Center
FY2025$190,768K08AI190124
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.
- Can diagnostic stewardship reduce the harms of blood culture contamination?
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
2026 - Species-level reporting of Coagulase-negative staphylococci with MALDI-TOF does not impact clinical outcomes
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
2026 - Antibiotic dose-response curves can measure antibiotic activity against <i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> and <i>Mycobacterium peregrinum</i>
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
2026 - Restoration of daptomycin sensitivity with adjunctive cefazolin is associated with C-terminal MprF mutations in MRSA bacteremia isolates
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
2026
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