{"schema_version":"1","generated_at":"2026-11-06T09:49:00.810Z","data_as_of":null,"url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/rafe-connors","json_url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/rafe-connors/profile.json","record_kind":"basic","profile_kind":"clinical","person":{"slug":"rafe-connors","name":"Rafe Connors","credential":"MD","specialty":"Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)","specialty_raw":"Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)","therapeutic_area":"Cardiology","therapeutic_areas":["Cardiology"],"institution":"McKay Dee Hospital","institution_url":"https://www.findmykol.com/institution/mckay-dee-hospital","city":"Salt Lake City","state":"UT","region":{"label":"West","url":"https://www.findmykol.com/region/west"}},"identifiers":{"npi":"1497954416","openalex":"A5087747402"},"summary":"Rafe Connors is a Cardiology physician affiliated with McKay Dee Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 16 publications with 560 citations (h-index 9).","overview":null,"focus":{"indications":[],"research_topics":["Cardiology"]},"scholarship":{"works_count":16,"cited_by_count":560,"h_index":9,"latest_activity_year":2019,"source":"works"},"publications":{"total":16,"shown":5,"withheld":11,"matched_by":"OpenAlex author record","recent":[{"title":"Transcatheter Aortic Valve-in-Valve Replacement for Degenerated Stentless Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves","year":2019,"journal":"JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2019.05.022","status":"verified"},{"title":"Effect of work-hour restriction on operative experience in cardiothoracic surgical residency training","year":2009,"journal":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.11.038","status":"verified"},{"title":"A Standard Pediatric Trauma Laboratory Panel: A Plea for a Minimalist Approach","year":2009,"journal":"The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ta.0b013e318164774f","status":"verified"},{"title":"Selective use of intraoperative sentinel lymph node pathological evaluation in breast cancer","year":2008,"journal":"The American Journal of Surgery","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.07.027","status":"verified"},{"title":"Comparing Outcomes after Transthoracic and Transhiatal Esophagectomy: A 5-Year Prospective Cohort of 17,395 Patients","year":2007,"journal":"Journal of the American College of Surgeons","source_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.07.001","status":"verified"}],"source":"works"},"similar":[{"name":"Deepak Bhatt","slug":"deepak-bhatt","institution":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai","specialty":"Interventional Cardiology","url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/deepak-bhatt","json_url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/deepak-bhatt/profile.json"},{"name":"Harlan Krumholz","slug":"harlan-krumholz","institution":"Yale School of Medicine","specialty":"Cardiovascular Disease","url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/harlan-krumholz","json_url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/harlan-krumholz/profile.json"},{"name":"Martin Leon","slug":"martin-leon","institution":"Columbia University Irving Medical Center","specialty":"Interventional Cardiology","url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/martin-leon","json_url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/martin-leon/profile.json"},{"name":"Scott Solomon","slug":"scott-solomon","institution":"Brigham and Women's Hospital","specialty":"Cardiovascular Disease","url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/scott-solomon","json_url":"https://www.findmykol.com/kol/scott-solomon/profile.json"}],"coverage":{"note":"A basic directory record. Sections absent here were not yet checked for this person, so absence means not yet looked, never none found.","not_yet_checked":["funding","congress","network","presence","recognition"]},"not_included":{"note":"This document is the public layer: neutral facts cited to their source. Judgments (influence tier, archetype, trajectory commentary) and the itemized rows past each section's public teaser are account features and are not served here or to crawlers.","withheld_rows":{"publications":11}},"sources":{"identity":{"name":"NPPES (CMS)","url":"https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov","provides":"Identity, specialty and practice location for every U.S. clinician"},"works":{"name":"OpenAlex","url":"https://openalex.org","provides":"Citations, h-index, research topics, most-cited works and congress abstracts"}},"methodology_url":"https://www.findmykol.com/about#methodology"}