Ronald Melles is an Ophthalmology physician affiliated with San Francisco VA Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 91 publications with 7,844 citations (h-index 34). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Ophthalmology profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
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).
Contact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
1150 Veterans Blvd
Redwood City, CA 940632037
Telephone
650-299-2000Registry record last updated 13 Dec 2021.
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.
Sensory organs
88.5%Prostaglandin Analog59.8%Latanoprost100%Part D≥39 patientsCarbonic Anhydrase Inhibitor28.7%Dorzolamide-Timolol100%Part D≥17 patientsCardiovascular
11.5%Beta blocker11.5%Timolol Maleate100%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.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- Association of Behavioral and Clinical Risk Factors With Cataract: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2023
Similar KOLs
Other experts from the same institution or the same specialty.
Kristine Yaffe, MD
San Francisco VA Medical Center
Michael Shlipak, MD
San Francisco VA Medical Center
Daniel Mathalon, MD
San Francisco VA Medical Center
Daniel Bikle, MD
San Francisco VA Medical Center
Emily Chew, MD
National Eye Institute
Robert Weinreb, MD
University of California San Diego
Harry Quigley, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Joel Schuman, MD
Wills Eye Hospital
A basic profile from our physician directory: identity and practice contact from the federal NPPES registry, research from OpenAlex, trials from ClinicalTrials.gov, payments from CMS Open Payments, shown itemized where we have matched records, as a count where we only have a total. This person hasn't been through our full identity-adjudication pipeline yet, so funding, congress activity and public presence aren't shown. Absence of a section means “not yet looked,” never “none found.”