Samish Dhungana is a Neurology physician affiliated with WellStar Kennestone Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 14 publications with 360 citations (h-index 8).
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
677 Church Street
Neurology Department
Maruetta, GA 30060
Telephone
281-866-5077Registry record last updated 17 Nov 2015.
Industry payments
53 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- ABBVIE INC.Program year202534 payments
- UCB, Inc.Program year20254 payments
- TG Therapeutics, Inc.Program year20253 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.
Musculoskeletal
63.4%Neuromuscular Blocker62.1%Onabotulinumtoxina100%Part B, office-administered≥16 patientsMuscle Relaxant0.7%Cyclobenzaprine Hcl66%Methocarbamol18%Carisoprodol16%Part D<11 patients+ 2 more classes in this area
Nervous system
34.3%Cholinesterase Inhibitor6.2%Donepezil Hcl74%Galantamine Hbr13%Rivastigmine5%Galantamine Er4%Pyridostigmine Bromide4%Part D<11 patientsGabapentinoids5.1%Gabapentin67%Pregabalin33%Part D≥121 patients+ 24 more classes in this area
Cardiovascular
1%Beta blocker0.6%Propranolol Hcl Er100%Part D≥20 patientsStatin0.3%Atorvastatin Calcium100%Part D≥16 patients+ 1 more class in this area
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.
- CODE FAST: a quality improvement initiative to reduce door-to-needle times
Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
2015 - Severe hemiparesis as a prehospital tool to triage stroke severity: a pilot study to assess diagnostic accuracy and treatment times
Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
2015 - Increased levels of interleukins 2 and 17 in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
PubMed
2013
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