Varun Shandal is a Neurology physician affiliated with Abbott Northwestern Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 51 publications with 407 citations (h-index 11).
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 (2020)
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.
Nervous system
93.1%Other antiepileptics17.9%Levetiracetam72%Topiramate29%Part D<11 patientsCholinesterase Inhibitor17.3%Donepezil Hcl100%Part D≥25 patients+ 12 more classes in this area
Cardiovascular
4.7%Beta blocker4.7%Propranolol Hcl Er62%Propranolol Hcl38%Part D<11 patientsMusculoskeletal
2.2%gamma-Aminobutyric Acid-ergic Agonist2.2%Baclofen100%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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