Nicholas Wettersten is a Cardiology physician affiliated with San Francisco VA Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 108 publications with 1,217 citations (h-index 17).
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
200 W Arbor Dr
San Diego, CA 92103
Telephone
858-657-8630Registry record last updated 13 Jun 2018.
Industry payments
7 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Program year20251 payment
- ABIOMEDProgram year20251 payment
- Novo Nordisk IncProgram year20252 payments
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
72.5%Beta blocker14.1%Carvedilol53%Metoprolol Succinate47%Part D≥25 patientsStatin11.4%Rosuvastatin Calcium59%Atorvastatin Calcium41%Part D≥17 patients+ 11 more classes in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
13.9%SGLT2 inhibitor8%Jardiance70%Farxiga30%Part D<11 patientsGLP-1 receptor agonist2.6%Ozempic52%Victoza 3-Pak48%Part D<11 patients+ 2 more classes in this area
Blood & clotting
4.6%Factor Xa inhibitor4.6%Eliquis100%Part D≥12 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
2 NIH research awards on record, funded 2021–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Discriminating Causes of Creatinine Change in Acute Heart Failure
Va San Diego Healthcare System
FY2026IK2CX002105 - Discriminating Causes of Creatinine Change in Acute Heart Failure
Va San Diego Healthcare System
FY2025IK2CX002105 - Biomarkers of Kidney Secretory Function for Discriminating Risk of Hyperkalemia
Veterans Medical Research Fdn/san Diego
FY2024$109,613R21HL169633
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.
- Surveillance donor-specific antibody and pathologic antibody-mediated rejection testing in heart transplant patients in the contemporary era
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
2025 - Kidney Tubular Biomarkers Predict Risk of Death and Heart Failure Readmission in Acute Heart Failure
Journal of the American Heart Association
2025 - Associations of Urine Biomarkers During Ambulatory Acute Kidney Injury With Subsequent Recovery in Kidney Function: Findings From the SPRINT Study
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
2025
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