{"id":938,"date":"2014-09-03T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T02:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=938"},"modified":"2017-04-19T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T23:22:19","slug":"avoiding-conflict-of-interest-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2014\/09\/03\/avoiding-conflict-of-interest-in-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Conflict of Interest in Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/105842644\" width=\"480\" height=\"538\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 03\/09\/14\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"grsynopisisspeakersubheadnew\" style=\"margin: 25pt 0cm 5pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #244061;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Synopsis: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #425563;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A conflict of interest occurs when there is a conflict between the private interests and the official responsibilities of a person in a position of trust.\u00a0 Anyone involved in patient care is in a position of trust.\u00a0 Conflict of interests are varied: allowing your name to be put on a publication in which you did not meet the requirement for authorship; accepting remuneration from a pharmaceutical or medical device company for participation in a conference where the company&#8217;s slides are used; or accepting food, tickets to sports or other events, travel expenses reimbursement for \u201ccontinuing medical education meetings\u201d; or even accepting pens, prescription pads or the like with the company\u2019s logo are all conflicts of interest.\u00a0 Some conflicts of interest can endanger patients.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"grsynopisisspeakersubheadnew\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #244061;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Speaker: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #425563;\">Dr Catherine D DeAngelis is Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita at the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine (Pediatrics) and <\/span><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #425563;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">School of Public Health (Health Policy and Management),\u00a0 and Editor-in-Chief Emerita of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association (2000-2011), serving as the first woman Editor in Chief.\u00a0 She has been awarded seven honorary doctorate degrees and has received numerous awards for humanitarianism and medical excellence, including the Ronald McDonald Award for Medical Excellence, the Catcher in the Rye Award for Humanitarianism by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and a lifetime achievement award by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"GRbodytext\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 20pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #425563;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">From 1990-2000 she was Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and from 1994-2000 she was editor of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.\u00a0 Having published over 250 peer reviewed articles, chapters, and editorials, her recent publications have focused on professionalism and integrity in medicine, on conflict of interest in medicine, on women in medicine, and on medical education.\u00a0 Her major efforts have centered on human rights especially as they relate to patients, health professionals and the poor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"GRbodytext\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 20pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #425563;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Dr DeAngelis is a former council member and current member of the National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine (IOM); a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and has served as an officer of numerous national academic societies including past chairman of the American Board of Pediatrics and Chair of the Pediatric Accreditation Council for Residency Review Committee of the American Council on Graduate Medical Education. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"GRbodytext\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 20pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #425563;\">She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, is a member of the Board of Physicians for Human Rights and serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Catherine D DeAngelis is Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita at the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine (Pediatrics) and School of Public Health (Health Policy and Management),  and Editor-in-Chief Emerita of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association (2000-2011), serving as the first woman Editor in Chief.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7948,7946,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-child-health","category-developmental-medicine","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}