Wesam Frandah is a Gastroenterology physician affiliated with Marshall University. OpenAlex indexes 124 publications with 385 citations (h-index 7); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 1 registered study matched to this name.
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 fundingClinical trials
Registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov where the overall official or a site investigator name-matches this physician, confirmed against known institution/geography. Latest few shown; the full list is part of the full profile.
Industry payments
5 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
5 companies with payments on record in CMS Open Payments (2021 onward), matched to this physician's NPI. The itemized breakdown by company, amount and year is part of the full profile. Why? →
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
91.5%Osmotic Laxative60.2%Gavilyte-G87%Peg-3350 And Electrolytes13%Part D≥175 patientsProton pump inhibitor23.1%Pantoprazole Sodium87%Esomeprazole Magnesium13%Part D<11 patients+ 2 more classes in this area
Nervous system
4.5%Gabapentinoids4.5%Gabapentin100%Part D<11 patientsAnti-infectives
4%Nitroimidazole Antimicrobial4%Metronidazole100%Part D≥12 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.
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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.”