The financial ties of the Cleveland Clinic’s 1,800 physicians and researchers will be publicly aired on the clinic’s Web site as part of the institution’s conflict-of-interest crackdown, The New York Times reported.

The clinic, one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, plans to announce this week that it will disclose individual researchers’ financial links to drug and device manufacturers. It may be the first major medical center to do that, the newspaper said.

“They are breaking a new path here,” David J. Rothman, president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession, told the Times. The institute, a nonprofit group based at Columbia University, studies potential conflicts of interest.

Nationwide, doctors and hospitals are under pressure to avoid conflicts that could jeopardize patient safety and taint research results. The Cleveland Clinic has been working aggressively to eliminate such conflicts after some of its top doctors were accused several years ago of having potentially compromising financial ties to companies whose products they were researching.

The clinic’s move drew praise from Sen. Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has urged Congress to scrutinize doctors’ industry relationships, which are often hidden from public view. The senator has investigated possible financial conflicts of interest by several academic researchers this year, including psychiatrists at Emory, Harvard, and Stanford Universities. —Katherine Mangan