{"id":81,"date":"2008-10-26T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=81"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:52","slug":"psychiatrist-accused-of-28-million-payola-from-pharmaceutical-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/26\/psychiatrist-accused-of-28-million-payola-from-pharmaceutical-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatrist Accused of $2.8 Million Payola From Pharmaceutical Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\" class=\"title\"><a title=\"Article\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emaxhealth.com\/1002\/24\/25181\/psychiatrist-accused-2-8-million-payola-pharmaceutical-company.html\" rel=\"noopener\">The cozy relationship between academic research and  the pharmaceutical industry was revealed as a prominent Emory University  psychiatrist failed to report $2.8 million he received in consulting fees from  GlaxoSmithKline.<\/a> The allegations against Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, were announced  in the probe headed by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who is promoting a bill  called the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cPhysician Payment Sunshine Act\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d that would require pharmaceutical  companies and medical devise manufacturers to report payments over $500 that  they make to physicians.He allegedly repeatedly underreported the  amount of consulting money he was paid, year after year.<\/p>\n<p>Nemeroff is the  6th physician accused since the investigation began earlier this year. These  psychiatrists are from the top research institutions in the country. They are  leaders in the profession and one was the president-elect for the American  Psychiatric Association. The physicians consult with 20 or more drug and devise  companies at one time with lucrative arrangements for speaking, conducting  symposiums, and writing about the safety and efficacy of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>It is  critical that academic research and influential professors that do the research  be independent of drug company influence and money. Several studies have shown  that people who receive money from drug companies are more likely to report  positive results from the drug.<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"title\">Dr. Nemeroff stepped down from his role as Emory  Department Chair of Psychiatry October 4 pending resolution of the issue, and\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0as  of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0October 14 Nemeroff\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0stepped down from university research projects funded by  the National Institutes of Health, as the federal agency cracks down on the  school\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s handling of potential conflicts of interest. The NIH has frozen funds  for a $9.3 million project on depression led by Nemeroff.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"title\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"title\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"title\">See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/04\/health\/policy\/04drug.html?ref=us\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/04\/health\/policy\/04drug.html?ref=us<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cozy relationship between academic research and the pharmaceutical industry was revealed as a prominent Emory University psychiatrist failed to report $2.8 million he received in consulting fees from GlaxoSmithKline. The allegations against Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, were announced in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/26\/psychiatrist-accused-of-28-million-payola-from-pharmaceutical-company\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-1j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}