US Senator Charles Grassley has asked the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to provide him with financial records of its links with pharmaceutical companies going back to 2003.
He has requested that the Association’s chief executive, James Scully, provides him with a complete accounting of its revenues, except those from advertising in its journals, for the period by July 24.For the last three years, Sen Grassley, the ranking (Republican) member of the US Senate Finance Committee and the rest of the panel have been investigating the pharmaceutical industry’s consulting arrangements and funding for continuing medical education (CME).
Then, earlier this year, Sen Grassley began a specific investigation into reports that a number of leading psychiatrists - APA president-elect Alan Schatszberg of Stanford University, Joseph Biederman and Timothy Wilens of Harvard and Melissa DelBello of the University of Cincinnati – had failed to disclose payments received from pharmaceutical companies.
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