Shireena Desai, MD
Basic profileKaiser Permanente Orange County Irvine Medical Center
Shireena Desai is a Gastroenterology physician affiliated with Kaiser Permanente Orange County Irvine Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 5 publications with 245 citations (h-index 4).
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Medicare prescribing footprint (2023)
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.
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
88%Proton pump inhibitor34.2%Omeprazole56%Pantoprazole Sodium44%Part D≥67 patientsOsmotic Laxative24.6%Gavilyte-C100%Part D≥145 patients+ 7 more classes in this area
Anti-infectives
2.9%Hepatitis B Virus Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor2.9%Entecavir100%Part D<11 patientsCardiovascular
2.7%Bile Acid Sequestrant2.7%Colestipol Hcl100%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.
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