Waleed Irani is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 13 publications with 1,126 citations (h-index 9).
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.
Cardiovascular
84.4%Beta blocker17.4%Metoprolol Succinate41%Metoprolol Tartrate30%Carvedilol23%Atenolol6%Part D≥120 patientsStatin17%Atorvastatin Calcium58%Rosuvastatin Calcium28%Simvastatin8%Pravastatin Sodium4%Lovastatin2%Part D<11 patients+ 16 more classes in this area
Blood & clotting
11.8%Factor Xa inhibitor6%Eliquis70%Xarelto30%Part D≥70 patientsP2Y12 inhibitor3.1%Clopidogrel87%Prasugrel Hcl13%Part D<11 patients+ 2 more classes in this area
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
3.1%Proton pump inhibitor1.4%Pantoprazole Sodium64%Omeprazole36%Part D≥17 patientsSGLT2 inhibitor0.9%Jardiance59%Farxiga41%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.
Similar KOLs
Other experts from the same institution or the same specialty.
Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Brian Rini, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
William Schaffner, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jordan Berlin, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
A basic profile from our physician directory: identity and practice contact from the federal NPPES registry, research from OpenAlex, trials from ClinicalTrials.gov, payments from CMS Open Payments — shown itemized where we have matched records, as a count where we only have a total. This person hasn't been through our full identity-adjudication pipeline yet, so funding, congress activity and public presence aren't shown. Absence of a section means “not yet looked,” never “none found.”