October 17, 2007

Survey Finds Extensive Ties Between Industry and Medical-School Department Chairs

By Katherine Mangan

Nearly two-thirds of the department chairs at medical schools and teaching hospitals who participated in a recent survey have financial or other ties to industry that could create institutional conflicts of interest, according to a report being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Ties between individual faculty members and companies have been closely scrutinized in recent years (

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