James Freeman, MD
Enriched profileProfessor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine); Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Yale New Haven Health; Director, Yale Atrial Fibrillation Program · Yale School of Medicine
James Freeman is Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine); Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Yale New Haven Health; Director, Yale Atrial Fibrillation Program at Yale School of Medicine. OpenAlex indexes 245 publications with 6,776 citations (h-index 40); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 2 registered studies with this person as an investigator.
Data verified 14 Aug 2026
Overview
Updated 2 Sept 2026
James V. Freeman, MD, is Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine / Yale New Haven Health. The public record shows 245 publications with 6,776 citations (h-index 40), centered on Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies. It also documents an investigator role on 2 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 6 companies, 3 NIH-funded awards (2013–2022).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · European heart journal
- Top research focus: Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
- 2 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 6 companies
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Indications focus
from trials led + research topicsResearch focus
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trial sponsors and companies reporting paymentsScholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 16 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 97.
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
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Practice address
Telephone
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Updated 2 Sept 2026
Listed as an investigator on 2 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
Industry payments
Updated 2 Sept 2026
6 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Boston Scientific CorporationProgram year202514 payments$13,987openpaymentsdata.cms.gov ↗
- Medtronic, Inc.Program year202522 payments
- Abbott LaboratoriesProgram year20254 payments
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
61.1%Beta blocker32%Metoprolol Succinate58%Sotalol28%Metoprolol Tartrate14%Part D<11 patientsAntiarrhythmic15.6%Amiodarone Hcl61%Mexiletine Hcl40%Part D<11 patientsBlood & clotting
38.9%Factor Xa inhibitor38.9%Eliquis100%Part D≥26 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
Updated 2 Sept 2026
3 NIH research awards on record, funded 2013–2022 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Safety and Effectiveness of Left Atrial Appendage Closure in Atrial Fibrillation (SAFELY-AF)
Yale University
FY2022$701,023R01HL142765
Publications
Updated 2 Sept 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Response by Rogovoy et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Incidence, Prevalence, and Trends in Mortality and Stroke Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Atrial Fibrillation: 2013 to 2019".
Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes
Letter2025 - Health Care Resource Use and Economic Burden in Patients With Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Atrial Fibrillation.
Journal of the American Heart Association
Article2025 - Long-Term Outcomes Following Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in Medicare Beneficiaries: Outcomes From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry.
Journal of the American Heart Association
Article2025 - Same-Day Discharge After Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in the United States.
Journal of the American Heart Association
Article2025
Most-cited works
by citation count (OpenAlex)- 02
- 03The NCDR Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Registry412 citations2020
- 04
- 05
Network
Updated 2 Sept 2026
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Online presence
Updated 2 Sept 2026
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doximity.com/pub/james-freeman-md-8200d0c2
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researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/James-V-Freeman-2137636209
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Mentions by others
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medicine.yale.edu/media-player/dr-james-freeman-a-fib-the-coronavirus
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Background & recognition
Updated 2 Sept 2026
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Education
degrees and training on record- provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →doximity.com ↗
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- MPH
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (biostatistics and epidemiology)
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Biochemistry/Molecular Biology and English, Dartmouth College
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Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, American Board of Internal Medicine
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Editorial & leadership roles
journal and society appointments- Editorial board member
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
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American Heart Journal
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Secondary affiliations
appointments beyond the home institution- Cardiac Amyloidosis Program
Yale School of Medicine
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- Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
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Media & interviews
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