Vagish Hemmige, MD MS

Overview

I am an infectious diseases physician with extensive experience with Transplant ID and HIV primary care. Interests include HIV-to-HIV thoracic transplantation, HIV prevention and treatment, and building open R tools for transplant data research.

• Location: New York, New York
  
• Clinical interests: Transplant ID, HIV care & prevention, opportunistic infections
  
• Methods/tech: R, Quarto, Arrow/DuckDB, reproducible pipelines

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Highlights

• Medical degree from NYU Grossman School of Medicine; >10 years practice experience.
  
• 50+ publications

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Open-source projects (R)

• sRtr — Tools for working with UNOS/SRTR transplant data in R
  Repo/docs: https://vagishhemmige.github.io/sRtr/

• usRds — Tools for working with the United States Renal Data system Repo/docs: https://vagishhemmige.github.io/usRds/

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Links

• US News doctor profile
  https://health.usnews.com/doctors/vagish-hemmige-719259

• ORCID
  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6346-1826

• Research/works
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=vagish+Hemmige&sort=date

• R packages
  sRtr: https://vagishhemmige.github.io/sRtr/
  strobe: https://vagishhemmige.github.io/strobe/
  usRds: https://vagishhemmige.github.io/usRds/ CDCAtlas: https://vagishhemmige.github.io/CDCAtlas/