Industry-Independent Experts

Journalists Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain in the BMJ how journalists often forget that conflicts of interest may bias the opinions of their expert sources. So they compiled a list of more than 100 independent health care experts to whom reporters can turn. We host that list on our site. (They dusted off the issue again in 2011.)

Members of our list of independent experts state that they do not have financial ties to drug or medical device manufacturers. Interested journalists seeking access to the complete list with contact information, please submit a Request Form. Once approved, you will receive access to a spreadsheet with contact information for the individuals listed.

Abramson	John	MD MS	Harvard Medical School
Angell	Marcia	MD	former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine
Antonuccio	David	PhD	Professor, Dept.of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Nevada
Atlas	Steven	MD, MPH	Massachusetts General Hospital
Bacon	Linda	Ph.D., M.A., M.A.	University of California, Davis; City College of San Francisco
Barry	Michael J	MD	Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Bassett	Ken	MD, PhD	Universitiy of British Columbia
Bero	Lisa	PhD	Professor, UCSF
Bezruchka	Stephen	MD, MPH	Population Health Forum
Bloomfield	Hanna	MD, MPH	Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota; Co-chief, General Internal Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center; Director, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VAMC
Breggin	Peter R	MD	Director, Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education and Living (a 501-C3)
Brewer	Phil	MD	University Medical Director, Quinnipiac University; Past Medical Safety Fellow, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Brezis	Mayer	MD, MPH	Professor of Medicine, Hadassah – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Brody	Howard	MD, PhD	University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Brown	David L	MD	Stony Brook University Medical Center
Brown	Steven	MD	Banner Health
Calman	Neil	MD	Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University; Institute for Family Health
Carlat	Daniel J	MD	Carlat Publishing, LLC
Carlson	Karen	MD	Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Cassels	Alan		University of Victoria
Chalmers	Sir Iain	DSc	Editor, James Lind Library, The James Lind Initiative
Cohen	David	PhD	Florida International University
Cook-Deegan	Robert	MD	Director, Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
Dachs	Robert	MD	Ellis Medicine, Schenectady, NY
Dahr	Sam	MD	Retina Center of Oklahoma
Davis	John M.	MD	Gilman Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
De Vries	Raymond	PhD	University of Michigan, University of Maastricht
Deyo	Richard A	MD, MPH	Oregon Health and Science University
Dickersin	Kay	PhD	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Cochrane Collaboration
Diller	Lawrence	MD	Private Practice, Walnut Creek California; Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Ebell	Mark	MD, MS	The University of Georgia
Elliott	Carl	MD	University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics
Elpern	David J.	MD	The Skin Clinic, Williamstown, MA
Ewen	Margaret		Health Action International
Ford	Anne Rochon		Coordinator, Women and Health Protection, Toronto
Furberg	Curt	MD, PhD	Professor of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Glenmullen	Joseph	MD	Clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Goodman	Robert	MD	Founder and director of No Free Lunch; General internist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx
Goozner	Merrill	MS	GoozNews.com
Gøtzsche	Peter	MD	Nordic Cochrane Center
Hegmann	Kurt T.	MD, MPH	Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Utah
Helm	Mark	MD MBA	Helm Benefit Design, Inc.
Henry	David	MBChB, FRCP	Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada; University of Toronto, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Himmelstein	David	MD	Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Hoffman	Jerome	MD	UCLA Emergency Medicine
Ioannidis	John P.A.	MD	Professor, Medicine – Stanford Prevention Research Center; Professor, Health Research & Policy
James	John T	PhD	Patient Safety America
Juni	Peter	MD	Head of Division, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern; Director, Clinical Trials Unit, Bern University Hospital.
Kim	Scott	MD, PhD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
Kopes-Kerr	Colin P.	MD, JD, MPH	Program Director and CEO, Santa Rosa Family Residency Consortium
Kramer	Barry	MD, MPH	Associate Director for Disease Prevention at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Kramer	Peter D	MD	Brown University
Krimsky	Sheldon	PhD	Tufts University & Council for Responsible Genetics
Kruszewski	Stefan	MD	American Society of Addiction Medicine, American Psychiatric Association
Kutner	Jean	MD	University of Colorado-Denver School of Medicine
Lacasse	Jeffrey	PhD	Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Lange	Richard A.	MD	Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Lederle	Frank	MD	Minneapolis VA Hospital & U of Minn.
Lee	Dara	MD	Staff Cardiologist, Presbyterian HeartGroup; Chair, Credentials Committee, Presbyterian Hospital
LeFever	Gretchen	PhD	Sentara Healthcare
Lemmens	Trudo	DCL (Doctorate in Law)	University of Toronto
Leo	Jonathan	PhD	Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy
Lex	Joe	MD	Temple University
Light	Donald W	PhD	UMDNJ Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
Lippman	Abby	PhD	McGill University
Mallon	William K.	MD, FACEP, FAAEM	Associate ProfessorofClinical Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California,Director: Division of International, LAC+USC Medical CenterMedicine
Mansfield	Peter, R.	OAM, BMBS	Director, Healthy Skepticism, Inc.
Marsa	Linda		freelance journalist
Massion	Charlea	MD	Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and Board of Directors, American College of Women’s Health Physicians
Mayer	Dan	MD	Albany Medical College
Medawar	Charles		Social Audit, Ltd
Miles	Steve	MD	Professor of Medicine, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
Mintzes	Barbara	PhD	Assistant Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of British Columbia
Mintzes	Barbara	PhD	Therapeutics Initiative, University of British Columbia
Morgan	Steven	PhD	Associate Professor and Associate Director, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Moynihan	Ray		Independent Journalist, Visiting Editor BMJ, Conjoint Lecturer, University of Newcastle
Musini	Vijaya	MD	Assistant Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of British Columbia & Therapeutics Initiative
Perry	Thomas L.	M.D., FRCPC	UBC Therapeutics Initiative
Pollock	Allyson M	MBCHB	Queen Mary, University of London
Poses	Roy M	MD	Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine
Prine	Linda W	MD	Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Practice
Psaty	Bruce	MD, PhD	Professor, Medicine & Epidemiology, University of Washington Cardiovascular Health Research Unit
Raffle	Angela	BSc, MBChB, FFPH	Public health physician, Bristol, UK
Relman	Arnold	MD	former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine
Rind	David	MD	UpToDate; Harvard Medical School
Roos	Noralou	PhD	University of Manitoba
Rosen	Charles	MD	Univ. of CA, Irvine, School of Medicine
Rosenlicht	Nicholas	MD	University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Rubin	Haya	MD, PhD	Personal Medical Consultant; Director, Research and Evaluation, Palo Alto CA; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Rubin	Robert T	MD, PhD	VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Sasich	Larry	Pharm.D., MPH	Currently consultant to Saudi Food and Drug Authority
Schriger	David	MD MPH	Professor of emergency medicine, UCLA
Schumann	John	MD	Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago, also MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Schwartz	Lisa	MD, MS	Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Schwitzer	Gary		Publisher, HealthNewsReview.org
Sharav	Vera	Mrs.	Alliance for Human Research Protection
Shaughnessy	Allen F	PharmD, MMedEd	Tufts University
Siwek	Jay	MD	Editor, American Family Physician, Dept Family Medicine, Georgetown University
So	Anthony	MD, MPA	Program on Global Health and Technology Access, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Solomon	Robert	MD, FACEP	American College of Emergency Physicians; medical editor-in-chief, ACEP News; Allegheny General Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency
Spence	Des		general practitioner, Glasgow, and UK spokesman of No Free Lunch
Spiesel	Sydney Z	PhD, MD	Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
Tiefer	Leonore	PhD	New View Campaign
Tsai	Alexander	MD, PhD	Harvard University
Turner	Erick	MD	Oregon Health and Science University
Urato	Adam	MD	Assistant Professor, Maternal & Fetal Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center
Washburn	Jennifer		journalist
Welch	H. Gilbert	MD, MPH	Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Wilkes	Michael	MD	Professor of Medicine, Director of Global Health, University of California, Former Vice Dean of Education, former Editor in Chief Western Journal of Medicine, Davis
Wilt	Timothy	MD, MPH	Minneapolis VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research
Wolfe	Sidney	MD	Director, Health Research Group of Public Citizen
Woloshin	Steven	MD	VA Outcomes Group; Associate Professor of Medicine and of Community and Family Medicine
Woolhandler	Steffie	MD, MPH	CUNY, Harvard
Wright	James	MD, PhD	Therapeutics Initiative
Yamey	Gavin	MD	Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group, UC San Francisco

Experts with Disclosed Conflicts

This list includes experts with a variety of potential conflicts. Some of these experts have ended their industry ties – but only within the past five years. Others may have current financial conflicts of interest. These experts, despite their commercial ties, are included in the list because they have provided important insights into the inner workings of industry – effectively biting the hand that fed them in some instances –and/or because their conflicts did not limit their ability to comment in areas unrelated to the conflicts.

Barrett	Bruce	MD, PhD	University of Wisconsin
Burstein	Harold	MD, PhD	Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Medical oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Campos-Outcalt	Doug	MD, MPA	Chair, Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix
Fugh-Berman	Adriane	MD	Georgetown University Medical Center
Gross	Cary	MD	Yale School of Medicine
Healy	David	MD	Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University
Juredini	Jon		University of Adelaide
Lexchin	Joel	MD	York University, University Health Network
Mallon	William	MD DTMH	LAC+USC Med Ctr
Melnick	Douglas	MD, MPH, EJD
Patz	Edward	MD	James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Professor in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center
Shamoo	Adil	PhD	University of Maryland School of Medicine
Susman	Jeffrey	MD	Editor-in-chief, Journal of Family Practice and physician editor, UptoDate Family Practice
Weed	Harrison G	MD	Ohio State University Medical Center
Weiss	Noel S	MD, DrPH	Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington
Whitehouse	Peter J	MD, PhD	Professor, Case Western Reserve
Whittle	Jeff	MD	VA; Medical College of Wisconsin
Wood	Alastair	MBChB	Symphony Capital biopharmaceutical investment firm; former chair of FDA Advisory Committee on Cox-2 inhibitors

Experts with Disclosed Conflicts

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