Vera Bittner is a Cardiology physician affiliated with University of Alabama at Birmingham. OpenAlex indexes 626 publications with 48,009 citations (h-index 97). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 5% of Cardiovascular Disease 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).
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
73.9%Beta blocker14.1%Metoprolol Succinate43%Carvedilol41%Atenolol8%Metoprolol Tartrate8%Part D<11 patientsStatin12%Atorvastatin Calcium82%Rosuvastatin Calcium18%Part D<11 patients+ 11 more classes in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
16.5%Potassium supplement7.8%Potassium Chloride100%Part D≥31 patientsSGLT2 inhibitor6.8%Farxiga76%Jardiance24%Part D<11 patients+ 1 more class in this area
Blood & clotting
7%Factor Xa inhibitor5.7%Eliquis100%Part D≥15 patientsP2Y12 inhibitor1.4%Clopidogrel100%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.
NIH funding
2 NIH research awards on record, funded 1993–2007 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- ACTION - A CHF Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise
University of Alabama at Birmingham
FY2005$213,428U01HL066497
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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