NIH Announces Conflict Of
Interest Panelists
February 27, 2004 - National Institutes of Health
Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Feb. 19 announced the full
membership of the agency's Blue Ribbon Panel on Conflict of
Interest Policies. Co-chaired by Bruce Alberts, Ph.D., president
of the National Academy of Sciences, and Norman Augustine,
chairman of the Executive Committee of the Lockheed Martin
Corporation, the panel's first meeting will be March 1-2.
Panelists have been charged with reviewing and making recommendations
for improving the existing rules and procedures under which
NIH operates regarding real and apparent financial conflicts
of interest.
The new panelists are Christine Cassel, Ph.D., president
of the American Board of Internal Medicine; Thomas Murray,
Ph.D., president of The Hastings Center; Phillip Pizzo, M.D.,
dean of the School of Medicine at Stanford University; the
Honorable Stephen D. Potts, chairman of ERC Fellows program
at the Ethics Research Center; Dorothy Robinson, Esq., vice
president and general counsel at Yale University; Lawrence
Sadwin, president of Lifestyle Security, LLC; James Siedow,
Ph.D., vice provost for research and professor of biology
at Duke University; and Reed V. Tuckson, M.D., senior vice
president at United Health Group.
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