Adriane Fugh-Berman - Getting Pharma Out of Medical Education
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
4.7 • 212 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On MIA Radio this week, MIA's Gavin Crowell-Williamson interviewed Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).
She is the director of PharmedOut, a GUMC research and education project promoting rational prescribing and exposing the effects of pharmaceutical marketing on prescribing practices. Dr. Fugh-Berman leads a team of volunteer professionals that has deeply impacted prescribers' perceptions of the adverse consequences of industry marketing.
She is interested in physician-industry relationships and is an expert witness in litigation regarding pharmaceutical marketing processes. She was formerly a medical officer in the Contraception and Reproductive Health Branch of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.
Dr. Fugh-Berman is the lead author on key articles on physician-industry relationships, including a national survey of industry interactions with family medicine residencies, exposés of how ghostwritten articles in the medical literature are used to sell drugs, an analysis of drug rep tactics, and an explanation of industry publication planning.
She wrote the first chapter on alternative medicine to appear in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and authored the first clinicians' reference text on dietary supplements, the 5-Minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Consult, as well as an evidence-based book aimed at consumers, Alternative Medicine: What Works.
In addition to dozens of articles in peer-reviewed literature, Dr. Fugh-Berman coauthored The Truth about Hormone Therapy and co-edited The Teratology Primer. Dr. Fugh-Berman is the former chair of and currently writes a column for the National Women's Health Network, a consumer advocacy group that takes no money from industry. Dr. Fugh-Berman has appeared on 20/20, the Today Show, and every major news network.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, this is James, welcome and thank you for listening in. |
| 0:18.2 | And this week, Mad in America's science news team writer Gavin Kroll, Williamson, interviews Dr. Adrian Fuberman. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm joined today by Dr. Adrian Fu-Berman, who is a professor of pharmacology and physiology with a joint appointment in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University. |
| 0:34.9 | As the director of farmed out, a Georgetown research and education project |
| 0:38.6 | that promotes rational prescribing and exposes the effect of pharmaceutical marketing on prescribing |
| 0:43.3 | practices, Dr. Fuberman leads a team that is a profound impact on prescribers' perceptions of the |
| 0:48.7 | adverse consequences of industry marketing. Thank you for joining me here today, Dr. Fuberman. |
| 0:53.3 | I appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule. Thanks for having me, Gavin. So we for joining me here today, Dr. Fuberman. I appreciate you taking the time |
| 0:54.3 | at your schedule. Thanks for having me, Gavin. So we're here to talk today about your article |
| 0:58.8 | continuing medical education and the marketing of fentanyl for breakthrough pain. But first, |
| 1:04.0 | can you tell me a little bit about your background and what drove you to do this sort of research? |
| 1:08.1 | Well, I really started off as a women's health activist even before I went to |
| 1:13.0 | medical school and have been able to really use the medical degree to expand advocacy in the area of |
| 1:20.3 | women's health, but also public health in general. Yeah, and it seems to me like a lot of your work is |
| 1:25.2 | motivated by your passion for studying conflicts of interest in big pharma. And can you kind of speak to that a lot of your work is motivated by your passion for studying conflicts of |
| 1:28.2 | interest in Big Pharma. |
| 1:29.5 | And can you kind of speak to where that specific interest of yours came from? |
| 1:32.6 | Well, it's really about promoting evidence-based medicine. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm very interested in people having information about both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic |
| 1:42.7 | therapies that are evidence-based, |
| 1:44.6 | and to have that information be free of industry influence. |
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