2015 Conference Slides

The Real Risks of Rx Drugs

Day 1

• Hormones and the fountain of youth

Adriane Fugh-Berman MD, Georgetown University Medical Center

Tony Scialli MD, George Washington University

• The endangered normal: Does anyone escape a diagnosis?

Adriane Fugh-Berman MD, Georgetown University Medical Center

• Demented patients and difficult behaviors

Tom Finucane MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

• How safe are we? Health Canada and drug safety

Joel Lexchin MD MSc, York University

• The impact of pricing of specialty drugs on care, coverage... and just about everything else

Sharon Levine MD, Kaiser-Permanente

• The high price of a "free" market: Medicines pricing in the US and beyond

Ruth Lopert MD, George Washington University

• Getting better in light of political realities

Louis Jacques MD, ADVI

• What are the rules of the road? FDA law and regulations for reviews of drug and biological practices

John Powers MD, George Washington University

Day 2

• Managing chronic pain: A case study of the potential of comparative effectiveness research

Carolyn Clancy MD, Department of Veterans Affairs

• The opioid addiction epidemic: How marketing and regulartory failure led to a public health crisis

Andrew Kolodny MD, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing

• Hyperglycemia, sedentary obesity and complications of type 2 diabetes

Tom Finucane MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

• Should black box warnings for fluoroquinolones be revised: Is the bar set too high?

Charles Bennett MD PhD, University of South Carolina

• The risks of newer anticoagulants: Sales vs safety

Thomas Moore, Institute for Safe Medication Practices

• Researchers behaving badly: Misconduct in clinical trials

Charles Seife, New York University

• Psychiatry under the influence: Institutional corruption and diagnostic and practice guidelines

Lisa Cosgrove PhD, University of Massachusetts-Boston

• Changes in medical students' responses to drug company marketing

Frederick Sierles MD, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science