Katafan Achkar is a Nephrology physician affiliated with Methodist Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 16 publications with 491 citations (h-index 9).
Overview
Scholarship
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Total citations across indexed works.
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Clinical & industry
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The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
600 N Kobayashi Ste 311
Webster, TX 775984841
Telephone
281-724-8296Provider last certified this registry record 28 May 2026.
Industry payments
20 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Novo Nordisk IncProgram year20252 payments
- Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology IncProgram year20252 payments
- Amgen Inc.Program year20251 payment
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- Personal viewpoint: Risk stratification and counseling of living kidney donor candidates with prediabetes
American Journal of Transplantation
2026 - Assessment of Potential Kidney Donors for Future Risk of Diabetes Using Validated Indices Derived from Oral Glucose Tolerance Test
American Journal of Transplantation
2025 - Long-Term Risks in Obese Living Kidney Donors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
American Journal of Transplantation
2025 - Percutaneous Thrombectomy of <scp>AVF</scp>: Immediate Success and Long‐term Patency Rates
Seminars in Dialysis
2014
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