{"id":55847,"date":"2015-04-09T23:38:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T03:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=55847"},"modified":"2015-04-09T23:41:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T03:41:20","slug":"schulz-out-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/09\/schulz-out-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Schulz out in Minnesota&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">April 8, 2015:<\/font><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discover.umn.edu\/news\/vision-leadership\/implementation-team-formed-advance-university-minnesota-human-subjects\">Implementation team formed to advance University of Minnesota human subjects research protection program<\/a> [UMn Announcement<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discover.umn.edu\/news\/vision-leadership\/implementation-team-formed-advance-university-minnesota-human-subjects\">]<br \/>  <\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">April 9, 2015:<\/font><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthintheglobalvillage.com\/2015\/04\/09\/the-fix-is-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fix is In<\/a> by Leigh Turner [Commentary on the make-up of the Implementation Team] <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">April 9, 2015:<\/font><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us8.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=d957cd042601ddafab53779a8&#038;id=65b30ddb0e&#038;e=2a21bf1ab0\">Schulz stepping down as head of psychiatry<\/a> [Comments from the Dean of the Medical School on the occasion of Chairman Charles Schulz&#8217;s resignation today]  <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"big\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/health\/299191801.html\">U of Minnesota psychiatry chief steps down after concerns about research protocols<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"big\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">Star Tribune<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"middle\">by JEREMY OLSON<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"small\">April 9, 2015<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">The University of Minnesota is replacing its  Psychiatry Department chairman following an external review that  identified subpar safety protocols in research involving human subjects  and a legislative audit that chastised the department for its  recruitment of a troubled man who later died by suicide in a  schizophrenia drug trial. While  Dr. Charles Schulz will continue clinical care and research in the  department he has led since 1999, Thursday&rsquo;s announcement that he is  stepping down reflects a metamorphasis for a university that even a  month ago was adamantly defending his department against claims of  coercive recruiting of vulnerable patients into research.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&ldquo;Changing  one person &mdash; it&rsquo;s not like switching a light switch&rdquo; and problems will  be fixed, said Leigh Turner, a U bioethicist who has demanded changes in  administration due to problems with psychiatric research. &ldquo;But there is  a symbolic dimension to it. A chair is a symbolic face of a department.  And this is a department that has been through a long period of  controversy and questions about the conduct of its clinical trials.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Much  of the criticism has centered around the recruitment of Dan Markingson,  who died by suicide in 2004 while enrolled in the university&rsquo;s arm of a  national study that compared the effectiveness of three antipsychotic  drugs. Markingson was recruited at the time by Dr. Stephen Olson, a  psychiatrist who was treating him, and running the study, and advising a  judge on whether Markingson should be committed to a locked inpatient  facility. Legislation following media coverage of this case in 2008 made  this type of potentially coercive recruiting situation illegal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Schulz  brought prestige and a track record for amassing research grants and  studying the origins of schizophrenia when he took over the department  15 years ago. He had previously been psychiatry chairman at Case Western  Reserve University in Cleveland, and chief of the schizophrenia  research branch for the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Schulz  has, like other doctors in recent years, been scrutinized for the  thousands of dollars he has received from drug companies such as  AstraZeneca, the sponsor of the study in which Markingson was enrolled.  Schulz&rsquo; name surfaced in documents submitted in a lawsuit against  AstraZeneca, indicating that back in 2000 he made statements about the  superiority of the company&rsquo;s new antipsychotic drug, Seroquel, that were  more favorable than research indicated&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">Schulz&#8217;s resignation is hardly a surprise, given the recent reports. I can&#8217;t find anything mentioning Stephen Olson who was actually in charge of the Study that Dan Markingson was enrolled in &#8211; CAFE. But I doubt he has much job security right now. President Eric Kaler is still leading the University as President, but his obstructionism over the last several years isn&#8217;t going to hold up well if there is anything like a reasonable re-organization.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">What&#8217;s happening at this point is anticlimactic. The powers that be felt like they could just wait things out, and the Dan Markingson case would simply fade away. Throughout the whole eleven years, they treated it as a nuisance. Carl Elliot has Schulz&#8217;s only public comments on it <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/loathingbioethics.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/dr-charles-schulz-speaks-about-suicide.html\">here<\/a> [back in 2010] on his blog. And looking back, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/2011-02-02\/news\/charles-schulz-under-scrutiny-for-seroquel-study-suicide\/\">this piece<\/a> gives a lot of information about the case and Schulz I haven&#8217;t seen before.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">It&#8217;s reminiscent of 2008 when Senator Grassley and Paul Thacker exposed the unreported PHARMA incomes. Drs. Nemeroff at Emory, Schhatzberg at Stanford, and Keller at Brown stepped down as chairmen [or were stepped down], but stayed on in their departments. Apparently, Schulz will remain as executive medical director [whatever that is]. Such things end like this &#8211; &quot;<em><font color=\"#200020\">not with a bang, but a whimper&#8230;<\/font><\/em>&quot;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 8, 2015: Implementation team formed to advance University of Minnesota human subjects research protection program [UMn Announcement] April 9, 2015: The Fix is In by Leigh Turner [Commentary on the make-up of the Implementation Team] April 9, 2015: Schulz stepping down as head of psychiatry [Comments from the Dean of the Medical School on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55847","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=55847"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55855,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55847\/revisions\/55855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}