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January 15, 2014
Holding the Industry Accountable: Covering Pharmaceutical Industry Marketing Practices
Featured Speaker:
- Ed Silverman, Pharmalot, Past Editor
Call Recording (forthcoming)
Link to Call Notes (forthcoming)
November 6, 2013
Covering & Exposing Pharmaceutical Industry Relationships
with ProPublica “Dollars for Docs” reporters:
- Charles Ornstein, Senior Reporter, ProPublica
- Tracy Weber, Reporter, ProPublica
Call Recording click to listen or download (1:00:09)
Link to Call Notes
August 28, 2013
How I Sold Low–T:
Guarding against Industry Influence
Featured Speaker:
- Stephen Braun, Medical Writer
Amherst, Massachusetts
Call Recording – click to listen or download (1:00:31)
Link to Call Notes
June 26, 2013
Rx Information: Non Biased and Evidenced-based or Industry Influenced?
Featured Speakers:
- Michael Fischer, M.D., M.S.
Director, National Resource Center for Academic Detailing (NARCAD) - Noah Nesin, M.D., FAAFP
Chief Quality Officer, Penobscot Community Health Care
Call Recording – click to listen or download (1:02:43)
Link to Call Notes
May 1, 2013
Teaching Tools to Counter Pharma Marketing Tactics
Featured Speakers:
- Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD
Director of PharmedOut and Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center
- Doris Peter, PhD
Associate Director, Health Ratings Center; Principle Investigator, Best Buy Drugs Project at Consumer Reports
Call Recording – click to listen or download (58:30)
Link to Call Notes
February 27, 2013
Let the Sun Shine In: Disclosing Industry Payments to Physicians Under the “Physician Payment Sunshine Act“
Featured Speaker:
Wells Wilkinson, JD, Director of the Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) project and staff attorney with Community Catalyst
Call Recording – click to listen or download (54:41)
Link to Call Notes
December 19, 2012
Massachusetts Gift Ban Rules:
Rallying to Limit Industry Wining & Dining
Featured Speakers:
- Alyssa R. Vangeli, JD, MPH, Health Care For All – Health Insurance and Delivery System Policy Analyst
- Mary Carol Jennings, MD, National Physicians Alliance – Board of Directors American Medical Student Association – Past Jack Rutledge Legislative Director
- David Tian, National Chair, AMSA PharmFree, MD/MPP Candidate, Harvard Medical and Kennedy Schools (Graduating in May 2013)
Call Recording – click to listen or download
Link to Call Notes
November 1, 2012
The Latest Settlement:
New Opportunities to Correct Misinformation
Featured Speaker:
- Wells Wilkinson, JD, Director of the Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) project and staff attorney with Community Catalyst
Call Recording – click to listen or download (1:01:20)
Link to Call Notes
August 29, 2012
One Doctor’s Experience with Conflict of Interest and an Update on Physician Payment Sunshine Provisions of the ACA
Featured Speakers:
- Daniel Carlat, MD, Director of the Pew Prescription ProjectDr. Carlat will describe his personal experience with COI as a well-meaning physician representing a drug company in educating prescribers about the benefits of a prescription drug and his current work in strengthening conflict-of-interest policies at medical schools and hospitals across the country. See Dr. Carlat’s 2007 New York Times Magazine article, Dr. Drug Rep and his recent editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Disclosure Can Address Doctors’ Conflicts of Interest
- Allan Coukell, Director of Medical Programs, Pew Health GroupAs Director of the Pew Health Group Medical Programs, Allan oversees the work of the Pew Prescription Project, the Medical Device Initiative, the Drug Safety Project, the Antibiotics and Innovation Project and other PHG activities related to medical products and services. He actively participated in the development of federal and state policy to foster transparency of physician-industry relationships and in the creation of programs to encourage evidence-based prescribing. Allan will discuss the status of the Physician Payment Sunshine provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Call Recording – click to listen or download (58:21)
Link to Call Notes
June 20, 2012
Recognizing the Potential for Conflicts of Interest and Initiating Change
Featured Speakers:
- David Grande, MD, MPA, Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of PennsylvaniaDr. Grande is a general internist and practices at the academic general medicine practice in West Philadelphia and attends at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on health policy for vulnerable populations and the influences of marketing in health care and on the medical profession. Dr. Grande will discuss his own experiences promoting policies to limit conflicts of interest as a faculty member and previously as a resident.
- Reshma Ramachandran, American Medical Student Association, PharmFree FellowReshma is a rising fourth year medical student at Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. She will discuss her new role as AMSA’s PharmFree Fellow including promoting evidence-based and not marketing based medical education as well as other opportunities to become involved in the PharmFree campaign related to limiting conflicts of interest in both the classroom and on the wards.
Call Recording – click to listen or download (58:01)
Link to Call Notes
April 18, 2012
Dealing with Conflicts of Interest in Academic Medical Centers
Featured Speakers:
- Guy Chisolm, PhD, Cleveland Clinic, Vice Chair, Lerner Research InstituteDirector, Innovation Management and Conflict of Interest ProgramCleveland Clinic was the first AMC in the country to disclose publicly their faculty’s industry ties
- Stephen Smith, MD, MPH, Brown University, Professor Emeritus of Family MedicineFounding member of the National Physicians Alliance, currently serving as the physician consultant to Community Catalyst, which is working with medical schools and AMCs to develop strong COI policy through the Partnership to Advance Conflict-free Medical Education
- Call Recording – click to listen or download (58:14)Link to Call Notes
February 22, 2012
New Partnership for the Advancement of Conflict-free Medical Education (PACME) and the AMSA PharmFree Scorecard
Featured Speakers:
- Ann Woloson, Director of Education, National Physicians Alliance
- Lee Shapely, Director, AMSA PharmFree ScorecardFourth Year Medical Student at Oregon Health & Science University
- A Student’s Experience – Brigitte Frett, First Year Student at University of Miami School of Medicine
Call Recording – click to listen or download (52:36)
Link to Call Notes
For more information about these conference calls, please contact Becky Martin, NPA Director of Project Management, becky.martin@npalliance.net
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NPA is a proud partner in the Partnership to Advance Conflict-free Medical Education (PACME). Our participation in these events is made possible by a grant from the state Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant Program which is funded by the multi-state settlement of consumer fraud claims regarding the marketing of the prescription drug Neurontin.
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