Patient Outcomes Research Teams (PORTS): Managing Conflict of Interest (1991)

Marcia Angell

Executive Editor

The New England Journal of Medicine

Boston, MA

David A. Asch

Assistant Professor

University of Pennsylvania

School of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA

Bernard Barber

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

Columbia University

New York, NY

Marilyn Bergner

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

David Blumenthal

Senior Vice-President

Office of the President

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA

Bruce J. Brennan, Esquire

Senior Vice-President and General Counsel

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association

Washington, DC

John W. Brown

Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer

Stryker Corporation

Kalamazoo, MI

Peter Budetti

Hirsh Professor of Health Care Law

George Washington University

Washington, DC

Nancy Cahill

McDermott, Will and Emery

Union, MI

Gerald Calderone

Executive Secretary

Study Section

Health Services Developmental Grants

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Rockville, MD

Alexander M. Capron

University Professor of Law and Medicine

Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

Robert Charrow

Counsel

Crowell and Morin

Washington, DC

Angie J. Chon

Research Analyst

American Medical Review Research Center

Washington, DC

J. Jarrett Clinton

Assistant Surgeon General and Acting Administrator

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Rockville, MD

Fred V. Featherstone

American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons

Park Ridge, IL

J. Michael Fitzmaurice

Director of Office of Science and Data Development

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Rockville, MD

Paul G. Gephard, Esquire

Jenner & Block

Chicago, IL

Ron Geigle

Geigle and Associates

Arlington, VA

Philip J. Goodman

RWJ Health Policy Fellow

(then) Office of Senator Durenburger

U.S. Congress

Washington, DC

Bradford H. Gray

Executive Director

Program on Non-Profit Organizations

Yale University

New Haven, CT

C. K. Gunsalus, J.D.

Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

University of Illinois

Champaign, IL

Barbara C. Hansen

Director

Obesity and Diabetes Research Center and

Professor of Physiology

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Alice Hersh

Executive Director

Association for Health Services Research

Washington, DC

Malcolm Holliday

Professor of Pediatrics

University of California

San Francisco, CA

H. Logan Holtgrewe

Treasurer

American Urological Association

Annapolis, MD

Peter Barton Hutt

Covington and Burling

Washington, DC

Thomas S. Inui

Professor of Medicine and Health Services

Head, Division of General Internal Medicine

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

Michael J. Jackson

Dean for Research

George Washington University

Medical Center

Washington, DC

Steven Jencks

Chief Scientist

Health Care Financing Administration

Baltimore, MD

William A. Knaus

Director, Department of ICU Research

George Washington University

Washington, DC

Margaret M. Kolb, Dr. P.H.

Project Director

Cataract PORT

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

David Korn

Carl and Elizabeth Naumann

Professor

Vice President and Dean

School of Medicine

Stanford University Medical Center

Stanford, CA

Ronald W. Lamont-Havers

Deputy Director for General Affairs

Cutaneous Biology Research Center and Senior Consultant

Division of Research Affairs

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Judith Lave

Professor of Health Economics

Graduate School of Public Health

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

William Lohr

Executive Secretary, Study Section

Health Services Research

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Rockville, MD

Bryan Luce

Senior Research Scientist

Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers

Washington, DC

David B. Matchar

Director, Center for Health Policy Research

Duke University

Durham, NC

Laurence F. McMahon, Jr.

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI

Barbara J. McNeil

Head, Department of Health Care Policy

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Barbara Mishkin

Counsel

Hogan & Hartson

Washington, DC

Lawrence C. Morris, Jr.

Consultant on Health Care Finance and Former Vice President

Health Benefits Management

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

Wilmette, IL

Janet Newburgh

Institutional Liaison Officer

Office of Extramural Programs

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

John Norris, J.D., M.B.A

Corporate Executive Vice President

Hill and Knowlton, Inc.

International Public Relations

Waltham, MA

Marian Osterweis

Vice President

Association of Academic Health Centers

Washington, DC

Eugene Passamani

Director

Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Washington, DC

Michael R. Pollard

Principal

Michaels and Wishner, P.C.

Washington, DC

Deborah M. Prout

Director, Public Policy

American College of Physicians

Washington, DC

David B. Pryor

Associate Professor of Medicine

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC

Ira E. Raskin

(then) Acting Director

Center for Medical Effectiveness Research

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Rockville, MD

Arnold S. Relman

(then) Editor-in-chief

The New England Journal of Medicine

Boston, MA

Michael W. Roberts

Office of the General Counsel

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Robert Roberts

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

James Madison University

Harrisonburg, VA

Deborah Runkle

Senior Program Associate

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Washington, DC

David Shapiro

Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program

University of California at Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Allan Shipp

Division of Biomedical Research

Association of American Medical Colleges

Washington, DC

Earl P. Steinberg

Associate Professor

Division of Internal Medicine

Johns Hopkins University

School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Howard Steinberg

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

New York, NY

Jennifer Sutton

Staff Associate

Association of American Medical Colleges

Washington, DC

Frederick W. Telling

Vice President, Planning

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

New York, NY

Peter Tombros

Executive Vice President

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

New York, NY

Norman W. Weissman

Director

Division of Extramural Research

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Rockville, MD

John E. Wennberg

Professor of Epidemiology

Department of Community and Family Medicine

Dartmouth Medical School

Hanover, NH

Christine Williams

Legislative Assistant

Office of Senator George J. Mitchell

Committee on Finance

U.S. Senate

Washington, DC

Wanda Young

The Pittsburgh Research Institute

Pittsburgh, PA

Michelle Robinson

Health & Sciences Communications

Washington, DC

(Press Representative)

Samuel O. Thier

President

Karl D. Yordy

Director, Division of Health Care Services

Kathleen N. Lohr

Deputy Director

Division of Health Care Services

Clifford Goodman

Director, Council on Health Care Technology and Co-Study

Director, Committee on Conflicts of Interest in PORTs

Rosemary Chalk

Study Director

Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Molla S. Donaldson

Co-Study Director, Committee on Conflicts of Interest in PORTs

Ethan Halm

Research Associate

Holly Dawkins

Research Assistant

Leah Mazade

Editor, Office of Communications

Theresa Nally

Senior Secretary

Thelma Cox

Senior Secretary