Two-thirds of patients in the United States visited a doctor who received payments from drug companies, but most have no clue about it, according to a new Drexel University study by Genevieve Pham-Kanter, former Fellow and assistant professor in Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health. Read...
"Conflicts of Interest in Medicine as a Health Policy Problem" Genevieve Pham-Kanter, Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Drexel University
"Trends in the Use of Expedited Drug Review and Approval Designations at the FDA" Aaron Kesselheim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital (not recorded)
"The Perils of Public-Private Partnerships in Public Health" Jonathan H. Marks, Associate Professor of Bioethics,...
On September 30th 2014, Genevieve Pham-Kanter, assistant professor in the School of Public Health at Drexel University, presented her research on conflicts of interest in the biomedical industry in the Edmond J. Safra Center’s third lab seminar of the semester. Pham-Kanter first presented a case for why conflicts of interest in medicine can be productively viewed as a health policy problem rather than a moral dilemma faced by individual physicians, and then moved on to explain her research on how different types of ties to industry may reflect bias when it comes to drug approval...
Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow Genevieve Pham-Kanter presented her paper, “The Effect of Physician Payment Disclosure Laws on Prescribing” (published in JAMA Internal Medicine) at the December 14 Lab seminar. The paper examines the effects of physician payment disclosure laws on physician prescribing habits and patient adherence to therapy, by comparing states which have enacted disclosure laws (Maine and West Virginia) to similar...
With the implementation of the Sunshine Act this fall, information about gifts and payments to physicians and hospitals from pharmaceutical and medical device...
