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AAMC Names Members of Task Force on Financial Conflicts of Interest

Clinical investigators; patient representatives; ethicists; medical school, teaching hospital, and university leaders; and individuals from industry, the legal profession, and the media are among the 28 members the AAMC has named to its newly formed Task Force on Financial Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research. The group is charged with assessing current AAMC guidelines on financial conflicts of interest and with formulating new principles that address both institutional and individual investigator concerns.

Chaired by William Danforth, M.D., chancellor emeritus of Washington University, the task force anticipates completing its work within two years. As a starting point for its deliberations, the task force will use the consensus document developed by a group of prominent medical school leaders convened by Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin, M.D., Ph.D., who is also serving as a task force member. The first meeting of the task force took place May 14, during which its members considered how the AAMC's guidelines on individual financial conflicts of interest should be updated to reflect concerns in the contemporary research environment.

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02 December 2005