Tamar Polonsky is a Cardiology physician affiliated with University of Illinois Chicago. OpenAlex indexes 188 publications with 7,572 citations (h-index 38).
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).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingMedicare 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.
Cardiovascular
87.1%Beta blocker20.2%Metoprolol Succinate51%Carvedilol39%Bisoprolol Fumarate6%Metoprolol Tartrate5%Part D<11 patientsStatin18.1%Rosuvastatin Calcium52%Atorvastatin Calcium49%Part D≥105 patients+ 13 more classes in this area
Blood & clotting
8.5%Factor Xa inhibitor6%Eliquis66%Xarelto34%Part D≥37 patientsP2Y12 inhibitor1.8%Clopidogrel100%Part D≥19 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
4.4%SGLT2 inhibitor3.6%Jardiance55%Farxiga45%Part D≥23 patientsGLP-1 receptor agonist0.4%Ozempic100%Part D<11 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.
NIH funding
1 NIH research award on record, funded 2023–2023 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- COCOA PAD II: Effect of Cocoa Flavanols on the Gut Microbiome and Functional Performance
University of Chicago
FY2023$486,611R21AG081706
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.
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