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Julio Chirinos, MD

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Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine · University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

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Region🇺🇸 Philadelphia, PA · Northeast · United StatesSpecialtyCardiovascular DiseaseFocusCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors+4
Active KOLfindmyKOL type: NationalLatest publication2026Online presenceverified 2026Payments2021–2025NIH funding2008–2026

Julio Chirinos is Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. OpenAlex indexes 572 publications with 23,117 citations (h-index 74); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 11 registered studies with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Cardiovascular Disease profiles in the findmyKOL directory.

Data verified 14 Aug 2026

Overview

Updated 16 Oct 2026

Julio Chirinos, MD, is Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine / Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The public record shows 572 publications with 23,117 citations (h-index 74), centered on Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics. It also documents an investigator role on 11 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 8 companies, 10 NIH-funded awards (2008–2026).

  • Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · Hypertension (Dallas, Tex.
  • Top research focus: Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • 11 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Open Payments reporting from 8 companies

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Indications focus

from trials led + research topics
Heart Failure6 trialsAortic Valve Stenosis2 trialsConstriction, Pathologic2 trialsHypertension1 trialInflammation1 trialSleep Apnea Syndromes1 trialApnea1 trialHeart Failure, Diastolic1 trialChronic Kidney Disease1 trialRenal Insufficiency, Chronic1 trialRenal Insufficiency1 trial

Research focus

OpenAlex concept fingerprint
Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsCardiovascular Health and Disease PreventionCardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsBlood Pressure and Hypertension StudiesCardiovascular Disease and Adiposity

Works with

trial sponsors and companies reporting payments
Edwards Lifesciences CorporationClinical trials—Industry payments16FUKUDA DENSHI Co., Ltd.Clinical trials—Industry payments5Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCClinical trials—Industry payments5University of PennsylvaniaClinical trials5Industry payments—E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Clinical trials—Industry payments4Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical CenterClinical trials3Industry payments—Merck Sharp & Dohme CorporationClinical trials—Industry payments3Amgen Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments2Northwestern UniversityClinical trials2Industry payments—American College of RadiologyClinical trials1Industry payments—Janssen Research & Development, LLCClinical trials—Industry payments1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments1

Scholarship

indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
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572publications

Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 46 in PubMed.

23,117citations

Total citations across indexed works.

74h-index

Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 218.

Clinical & industry

trials, payments and federal funding
11clinical trials

Investigator role on registered studies.

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8companies · 2021–2025

Companies reporting payments to CMS. Facts, not judgments.

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10NIH grants · 2008–2026

Federally funded research awards.

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Public positions

sourced statements on record
  • Global member

    Lancet Commission for Hypertension

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →med.upenn.edu ↗

Contact

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Practice address

Telephone

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Clinical trials

Updated 16 Oct 2026

Listed as an investigator on 11 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:

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Industry payments

Updated 16 Oct 2026

8 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:

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NIH funding

Updated 16 Oct 2026

10 NIH research awards on record, funded 2008–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:

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Publications

Updated 16 Oct 2026

Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.

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Most-cited works

by citation count (OpenAlex)
  1. 01
    Recommendations for Improving and Standardizing Vascular Research on Arterial Stiffness
    1,435 citations2015
    doi.org ↗
  2. 02
    Large-Artery Stiffness in Health and Disease
    979 citations2019
    doi.org ↗
  3. 03
    A call to action and a lifecourse strategy to address the global burden of raised blood pressure on current and future generations: the Lancet Commission on hypertension
    954 citations2016
    doi.org ↗
  4. 04
    Association Between Hospitalization for Pneumonia and Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
    599 citations2015
    doi.org ↗
  5. 05
    Recommendations on the Use of Echocardiography in Adult Hypertension: A Report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)
    587 citations2015
    doi.org ↗
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Network

Updated 16 Oct 2026

The people this person publishes with most, by number of co-authored papers. Names link to their own profile when we have one.

Patrick Segers89Payman Zamani81Scott Akers71Raymond R. Townsend63Ernst Rietzschel49Thomas P. Cappola44Jordana B. Cohen44Walter R. Witschey39Oday Salman34Thierry Gillebert33Marc De Buyzere33Vicente Corrales‐Medina31Victor A. Ferrari30Josefina Medina‐Lezama28Swapna Varakantam27Wenche Jy27Joaquín J. Jiménez26Marie‐Joe Dib25Francisco Ramírez‐Valle25Zhaoqing Wang25Lei Zhao24Ali Javaheri24Yeon S. Ahn24Kenneth B. Margulies23Dietmar Seiffert23Lawrence L. Horstman22Amer Ahmed Syed22Bianca Pourmussa21Joe David Azzo21Cameron Beeche21Bilal Ansari21Christina Ebert21David G. Edwards20Zeba Hashmath20Daniel J. Rader20Timothy S. Phan20Peter Schäfer20Mark Richards18Priyanka Bhattacharya18Rushik Bhuva17

Online presence

Updated 16 Oct 2026

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Owned accounts

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  • LinkedIn

    linkedin.com/in/julio-chirinos-ab907a45

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  • X / Twitter

    x.com/juliochirinosmd

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Mentions by others

where others cite or feature them
  • Other

    acc.org/membership/person

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    x.com/NAASociety/status/1900196665673289938

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  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn profile listed as University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine faculty (auth-walled, unverified beyond SERP snippet)

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Background & recognition

Updated 16 Oct 2026

Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.

Education

degrees and training on record
  • PhD in Biomedical Sciences

    University of Ghent

    2012
    verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →med.upenn.edu ↗
  • COCATS Level III Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    2010
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  • COCATS Level II Cardiac CT
    2008
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  • Board Certified

    Cardiovascular Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine

    2007
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  • COCATS Level III Echocardiography
    2007
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  • Board Certified

    Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

    2005
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  • MD

    Catholic University of Santa Maria School of Human Medicine

    1995
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Editorial & leadership roles

journal and society appointments
  • President

    North American Artery Society

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  • Associate Editor

    Circulation: Heart Failure (American Heart Association)

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  • Editor

    Journal of Clinical Hypertension

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  • Editor

    Cochrane Collaboration

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  • Senior Consulting Editor

    JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

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  • Editorial Board Member

    Journal of the American Heart Association

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  • Editorial Board Member

    Pulse

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  • Editorial Board Member

    Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

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  • Co-Chair

    Global Heart Failure Biomarker Consortium

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →med.upenn.edu ↗
  • Steering Committee Member

    HeartShare (NHLBI-funded multicenter consortium)

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Awards & honors

honors on the public record
  • Fellow

    American Heart Association

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  • Honorary Fellow

    Inter-American Society of Cardiology

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  • Fellow

    American Society of Hypertension

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  • Honorary Fellow

    European Society of Cardiology

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  • Member

    American Society for Clinical Investigation

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  • Honorary Member

    Korean Society of Cardiology

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Secondary affiliations

appointments beyond the home institution
  • Adjunct Faculty

    Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging, University of Pennsylvania

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  • Co-Director

    Clinical Research T32 Training Program in Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

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  • Adjunct Faculty

    University of Ghent, Belgium (collaboration with the Asklepios Investigators)

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →med.upenn.edu ↗

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