On November 25^th 2014, Marcia Hams and Wells Wilkinson from Community Catalyst and Susannah Rose from the Cleveland Clinic presented their ongoing collaborative project for the Edmond J. Safra Center’s tenth seminar of the year. Their project analyzes the results of a survey developed to help academic medical centers assess their policies on conflicts of interest (COI).

In order to provide a framework for their project, Hams started off the seminar with a brief description of conflicts of interest in medicine. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, a...

Szelena Gray and Sujay Tyle, Project Managers, Academic Independence Project

Susannah Rose, Director of Bioethics Research and Policy, Cleveland Clinic; Assistant Professor, Department of medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Garry C. Gray, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Victoria

Nancy Olivieri, Professor, Pediatrics, Medicine, and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Toronto General Research Institute; Executive Director, Hemoglobal

The final Lab seminar of the spring semester was presented by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow, Susannah Rose, on May 14, 2014. Rose received her PhD from Harvard’s Health Policy Program in 2010 and is now a Professional Staff Member in the Department of Bioethics at The Cleveland Clinic and an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Department of Medicine. Her research currently focuses on investigating potential financial conflicts of interest among patient...

The December 15, 2010, seminar was presented by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow Susannah Rose. Susannah's research focuses on patient advocacy groups and their possible dependencies on pharmaceutical companies and other for-profit entities. Seminar participants discussed the ambiguous nature of these groups, both in terms of the many roles they fill, as well as the difficulty of defining when harm has been committed. Given their ambiguous nature, the difficulty of creating a...