William Auger is a Respiratory physician affiliated with University of California System. OpenAlex indexes 220 publications with 9,645 citations (h-index 52).
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 fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
9300 Campus Point Dr
Mail Code 7381
La Jolla, CA 920371300
Telephone
858-657-7140Provider last certified this registry record 2 Jun 2020.
Industry payments
6 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Program year20232 payments
- Inari Medical, Inc.Program year20231 payment
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCProgram year20221 payment
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2021)
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
100%Soluble Guanylate Cyclase Stimulator100%Adempas100%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
1 NIH research award on record, funded 1999–2002 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- CLINICAL MODELS OF THE ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
University of California San Diego
FY2002$40,863P50HL023584 - CLINICAL MODELS OF THE ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
University of California San Diego
FY2001$40,863P50HL023584
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.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- Evaluation and management of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension - consensus statement from the ISHLT
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
2021
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