Melissa Cortez is a Neurology physician affiliated with Primary Children's Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 120 publications with 1,728 citations (h-index 23).
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
175 N Medical Dr E
Salt Lake City, UT 841320001
Telephone
801-585-7575Provider last certified this registry record 12 Nov 2021.
Industry payments
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Exeltis, USA Inc.Program year20221 payment
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
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
50%alpha-Adrenergic Agonist50%Midodrine Hcl100%Part D<11 patientsNervous system
50%Cholinesterase Inhibitor50%Pyridostigmine Bromide100%Part D<11 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 2020–2024 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Photophobia and Pupillary Autonomic Dysfunction as Biomarkers of Post-Traumatic Headache
University of Utah
FY2024$196,151K23NS105920 - Photophobia and Pupillary Autonomic Dysfunction as Biomarkers of Post-Traumatic Headache
University of Utah
FY2023$200,832K23NS105920 - Photophobia and Pupillary Autonomic Dysfunction as Biomarkers of Post-Traumatic Headache
University of Utah
FY2022$199,397K23NS105920
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.
- Characterizing Long COVID Symptoms During Early Childhood
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
2025 - Long COVID trajectories in the prospectively followed RECOVER-Adult US cohort
Nature Communications
2025 - Impact of exercise to treat postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome: a systematic review
Frontiers in Neurology
2025
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