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Post: Conflict-of-interest in medicine continues..Posted by Deborah on 10/04/08
Unlikely any different in any other discipline..
October 4, 2008
Top Psychiatrist Didn’t Report Drug Makers’ Pay
By GARDINER HARRIS
One of the nation’s most influential psychiatrists earned
more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with
drug makers from 2000 to 2007, failed to report at least
$1.2 million of that income to his university and violated
federal research rules, according to documents provided to
Congressional investigators.
The psychiatrist, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff of Emory
University, is the most prominent figure to date in a
series of disclosures that is shaking the world of
academic medicine and seems likely to force broad changes
in the relationships between doctors and drug makers.
In one telling example, Dr. Nemeroff signed a letter dated
July 15, 2004, promising Emory administrators that he
would earn less than $10,000 a year from GlaxoSmithKline
to comply with federal rules. But on that day, he was at
the Four Seasons Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., earning
$3,000 of what would become $170,000 in income that year
from that company — 17 times the figure he had agreed on.
The Congressional inquiry, led by Senator Charles E.
Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is systematically asking
some of the nation’s leading researchers to provide their
conflict-of-interest disclosures, and Mr. Grassley is
comparing those documents with records of actual payments
from drug companies. The records often conflict, sometimes
starkly.
“After questioning about 20 doctors and research
institutions, it looks like problems with transparency are
everywhere,” Mr. Grassley said. “The current system for
tracking financial relationships isn’t working.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/health/policy/04drug.html
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