{"id":10850,"date":"2011-07-01T21:28:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T01:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=10850"},"modified":"2011-07-03T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T00:59:19","slug":"harvard-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/01\/harvard-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"bipolar kids: harvard acts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"right\">[Hat Tip to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bipolarsoupkitchen-stephany.blogspot.com\/\"><strong><font color=\"#500050\">Stephany<\/font><\/strong><\/a>!]<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">I reviewed the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/projectreporter.nih.gov\/project_info_history.cfm?aid=7898941&#038;icde=8704665\"><u><strong><font color=\"#200020\">COBY<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a> Studies as a preface to looking at Joseph Biederman&#8217;s papers. I wanted to solidify some idea about childhood bipolar disorder in my own mind before looking at his work. In the process of beginning to go through the articles, my email went <em>ping!<\/em> and I found this link forwarded by Stephany of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bipolarsoupkitchen-stephany.blogspot.com\/\"><u><strong><font color=\"#200020\">Soulful Sepulcher<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a>.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/harvard.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/news\/2011\/07\/01\/mass-general-punishes-three.html\"><u>Mass. General disciplines three psychiatrists<\/u><\/a><br \/>    Boston Business Journal<\/font><\/strong><br \/>    by Eric Convey<br \/>    July 1, 2011<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/bied-7.jpg\" \/>Massachusetts General Hospital on Friday disclosed  sanctions against three psychiatrists for violating hospital ethics  guidelines by failing to adequately report, internally, seven-figure  payments they received from drug companies. Drs. <strong><font color=\"#200020\">Joseph Biederman<\/font><\/strong>, <strong><font color=\"#200020\">Thomas Spencer<\/font><\/strong> and <strong><font color=\"#200020\">Timothy Wilens<\/font><\/strong> disclosed the disciplinary actions against them in a note to colleagues. According to a copy of the note made public upon request by the hospital, the three doctors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Must refrain from &quot;all industry-sponsored outside activities&quot; for one year.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">For two years after the ban ends must obtain permission from Mass.  General and Harvard Medical School before engaging in any  industry-sponsored, paid outside activities and then must report back  afterward.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Must undergo certain training.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Face delays before being considered for &quot;promotion or advancement.&quot;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">The three doctors came under the political microscope in June 2008 during remarks Sen. <strong><font color=\"#200020\">Charles Grassley<\/font><\/strong>, R-Iowa, made to a committee investigating conflicts of interest involving clinicians. The three Harvard doctors &quot;are some of the top psychiatrists in the  country, and their research is some of the most important in the field,&quot;  Grassley said, according to an online version of the Congressional  record. &quot;They have also taken millions of dollars from the drug  companies.&quot; The senator complained that Biederman and Wilens took money  from drug giant Eli Lilly at the same time they were being paid by the National Institutes of Health to study an Eli Lilly drug. Grassley went on to say he had requested conflict-of-interest forms from the hospitals, and they &quot;were a mess&quot;&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">While I would have preferred the ban on industry sponsored activities to last forever, and of course the delay in advancement won&#8217;t bother Dr. Biederman because he&#8217;s already right below &quot;God&quot; [<u><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/29\/not-someone-to-jerk-around\/\" target=\"_blank\">not someone to jerk around&hellip;<\/a><\/strong><\/u>], it&#8217;s still a stiff enough penalty to send a powerful message &#8211; the right message.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Probably more important than Biederman-et-al&#8217;s punishment is Harvard&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/public\/coi\/policy\/integritypolicy.html\" target=\"_blank\"><u><strong><font color=\"#660033\">Conflict of Interest Policy<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a> adopted in the wake of Dr. Biederman&#8217;s outing by Senator Grassley and his staff. It&#8217;s long and detailed, but seems to cover most of the bases. Like his comrades [Nemeroff, Schatzberg, Rush, Keller], Biederman still has an academic appointment. In a rational world, they should&#8217;ve been fired to a man. But we&#8217;re still not yet that rational. Hopefully, that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re headed in the future. <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Notice that the complaint was about his conflict with Eli Lilly connections. That&#8217;s certainly not his only area in conflict. The one we&#8217;re looking at is with Janssen [Johnson &amp; Johnson]. Like most of his partners in crime, he was an equal opportunity employee&#8230; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Hat Tip to Stephany!] I reviewed the COBY Studies as a preface to looking at Joseph Biederman&#8217;s papers. I wanted to solidify some idea about childhood bipolar disorder in my own mind before looking at his work. In the process of beginning to go through the articles, my email went ping! and I found this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10850"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11026,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850\/revisions\/11026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}