psychiatric shenanigans – no joke

Rajiv Tandon is known as the top psychiatrist in the State of Florida.
He is the Chief of Psychiatry over Florida’s Department of Children and Families.

This 2-1/2 minute video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCM3klGpQEk

shows Tandon joking about psychiatrists. It’s a funny joke, and not far from the truth.

Tandon’s activities as a Florida government official  include the promotion of antipsychotic drugs which is costing Florida millions upon millions of Medicaid dollars. His activities  were written up in the St. Petersburg Times.

See here: http://tampabay.com/news/health/article454391.ece

According to the below documentation Tandon has been working as a Florida government official while concurrently working for drug companies.

Top Florida Psychiatrist – Rajiv Tandon  - financial connections to antipsychotic drug makers:May 1, 2004Starting working at Florida’s Department of Children and Families while “on loan” from Florida State University

June 1, 2004
http://web.archive.org/web/20060331190500/http://medschool.slu.edu/psych/index.phtml?page=June2004Rounds&cat=calander
Dr. Tandon is on the Speakers Bureau for Astra Zeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Janssen, and Pfizer. 

 

July 13, 2004
http://www.psipanama.org/optimizing.pdf
Rajiv Tandon, MD, Chief of Psychiatry, Florida Department of Children and Families, Tallahassee
Dr. Tandon is a consultant and a member the speakers/advisory boards for AstraZeneca, Abbott, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Janssen and Pfizer  

December 2004
http://www.jhasim.com/template.cfm?TEMPLATE=include_programinfo.cfm&ID=128&ZoneID=29&TYPE=faculty
Rajiv Tandon, MD, Chief of Psychiatry, Florida Department of Children and Families, Tallahassee, Florida
Dr Tandon reports serving as a consultant to AstraZeneca LP, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Eli Lilly and Company, Janssen Pharmaceutica, and Pfizer Inc.

2005 

http://www.psychsearch.net/apa2005.pdf
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals1,4; Bristol-Myers Squibb1,4; Eli Lilly and Company1,4; Pfizer Inc.1,4; Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, LP1,4
(1 = consultant or advisory board; 4 =  speakers’ bureau)

2005
http://www.dowdencme.com/Landing.asp?TestID=36
Rajiv Tandon, MD, reports that he serves as a consultant to and on the speakers’ bureaus of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Eli Lilly and Co, Janssen Pharmaceutica, and Pfizer Inc.  

November 22, 2006
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychiatryNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=195900165&cid=BreakingNews
Rajiv Tandon, M.D., of the University of Florida in Tallahassee gave a presentation.  The symposium was sponsored by Janssen pharmaceuticals. Both Dr Tandon and Dr. Feldman are members of the speakers bureau for Janssen, the sponsor of the symposium, and have financial relationships with Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Bristol-Meyers Squibb as well.

2007

http://www.psychsearch.net/apa2007.pdf
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP4; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company4; Eli Lilly and Company4;Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, LP 4; National Institute of Mental Health 4; Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc4 ; Pfizer Inc.4 

(1 = consultant or advisory board; 4 =  speakers’ bureau)