Ronald Falk is a Nephrology physician affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OpenAlex indexes 537 publications with 44,516 citations (h-index 93). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 5% of Nephrology profiles in the FindMyKOL directory.
Overview
Scholarship
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Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
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Practice address
Telephone
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1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals IncorporatedProgram year20232 payments
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals IncorporatedProgram year20221 payment
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals IncorporatedProgram year20213 payments
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
NIH funding
12 NIH research awards on record, funded 1985–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
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.
- Inaxaplin for Proteinuric Kidney Disease in Persons with Two <i>APOL1</i> Variants
New England Journal of Medicine
2023 - Pathogenesis of antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-mediated disease
Nature Reviews Rheumatology
2014 - C5a Receptor (CD88) Blockade Protects against MPO-ANCA GN
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
2013
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