Ronald Krauss is an Endocrinology/Metabolic physician affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. OpenAlex indexes 11 publications with 1,408 citations (h-index 9); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 4 registered studies matched to this name.
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex.
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
3101 Telegraph Ave
2nd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94705
Telephone
510-665-0500Registry record last updated 7 Mar 2023.
Clinical trials
- The Mediterranean Full-Fat Dairy Study
Sponsor: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
- Soda and Milk Study
Sponsor: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
- Effects of Almond Intake on Atherogenic Lipoprotein Particles
Sponsor: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov where the overall official or a site investigator name-matches this physician, confirmed against known institution/geography. Latest few shown; the full list is part of the full profile.
Industry payments
5 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Corcept TherapeuticsProgram year20251 payment
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Program year20252 payments
- Abbott LaboratoriesProgram year20241 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
92.5%Statin53.4%Rosuvastatin Calcium66%Atorvastatin Calcium19%Pravastatin Sodium15%Part D<11 patientsCholesterol absorption inhibitor29.2%Ezetimibe100%Part D≥19 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Hormonal (systemic)
7.5%l-Thyroxine7.5%Synthroid100%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
13 NIH research awards on record, funded 1985–2020 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Statin Treatment and Incident Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in a Large, Multi-ethnic Health Plan
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
FY2020$2,999,547RF1AG069259 - Pharmacogenomics of Statin Therapy
Children'S Hospital & Res Ctr at Oakland
FY2019$1,524,688P50GM115318 - Pharmacogenomics of Statin Therapy
University of California, San Francisco
FY2019$1,173,979P50GM115318
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.
- Garlic powder, effect on plasma lipids, postprandial lipemia, low-density lipoprotein particle size, high-density lipoprotein subclass distribution and lipoprotein(a)
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2000 - The American College of Physicians guidelines for screening blood cholesterol levels: a commentary
The American Journal of Medicine
1998 - Hormone replacement therapy, hormone levels, and lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations in elderly women
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
1996
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