Center for Medicine in the Public Interest - Revision history

Melissa Jones: added astroturf category

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added astroturf category

Steven Harkins at 23:42, 25 May 2010

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David: /* Board of Directors */

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US Health care reform debate

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-The '''Center for Medicine in the Public Interest''' (CMPI) claims to be a ‘nonprofit, non-partisan organization promoting innovative solutions that advance medical progress, reduce health disparities, extend life and make health care more affordable, preventive and patient-centered.’ It offers ‘the public, policymakers and the media a reliable source of independent scientific analysis on issues ranging from personalized medicine, food and drug safety, health care reform and comparative effectiveness. <ref> CMPI. [http://www.cmpi.org/about-us/mission-statement/ CMPI: Mission Statement] Accessed 19 April 2010./</ref> The director of the [[Stockholm Network]] (SN), [[Helen Disney]], used to sit on its now defunct advisory board along with representatives from two think tanks who are part of the SN: [[International Policy Network]] ([[Julian Morris]]) and [[Centre for the New Europe]] ([[Stephen Pollard]]).<ref>Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060113193713/www.rxcmpi.org/board/index.html CMPI Advisory Board], Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest, 13-January-2006, Accessed vi web archive 25-May-2010</ref> The director of communications at [[Pfizer]] [[Catherine Barr Windels]] is also on the CPMI board.<ref>CPMI Board of Directors, [http://www.cmpi.org/about-us/board-of-directors/ About Us], ''Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest'', Accessed 24-May-2010</ref>
+The '''Center for Medicine in the Public Interest''' (CMPI) claims to be a ‘nonprofit, non-partisan organization promoting innovative solutions that advance medical progress, reduce health disparities, extend life and make health care more affordable, preventive and patient-centered.’ It offers ‘the public, policymakers and the media a reliable source of independent scientific analysis on issues ranging from personalized medicine, food and drug safety, health care reform and comparative effectiveness. <ref> CMPI. [http://www.cmpi.org/about-us/mission-statement/ CMPI: Mission Statement] Accessed 19 April 2010./</ref> The director of the [[Stockholm Network]] (SN), [[Helen Disney]], used to sit on its now defunct advisory board along with representatives from two think tanks involved in the Network: [[International Policy Network]] ([[Julian Morris]]) and [[Centre for the New Europe]] ([[Stephen Pollard]]).<ref>Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060113193713/www.rxcmpi.org/board/index.html CMPI Advisory Board], Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest, 13-January-2006, Accessed vi web archive 25-May-2010</ref> The director of communications at [[Pfizer]] [[Catherine Barr Windels]] is also on the CPMI board.<ref>CPMI Board of Directors, [http://www.cmpi.org/about-us/board-of-directors/ About Us], ''Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest'', Accessed 24-May-2010</ref>
-The CPMI has been accused of being an 'astroturf' organisation that receives its funding from pharmarceutical companies<ref>Peter Hart, Fear & Favor 2008; Financial woes accelerate corporate pressure in the newsroom, ''Extra!'', April 2009</ref><ref>Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, Doctor's Fees, ''Slate Magazine'', 21-November-2008</ref>. According to the ''Washington Post'':
+The CPMI has been accused of being an 'astroturf' organisation that receives its funding from pharmaceutical companies.<ref>Peter Hart, Fear & Favor 2008; Financial woes accelerate corporate pressure in the newsroom, ''Extra!'', April 2009</ref><ref>Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, Doctor's Fees, ''Slate Magazine'', 21-November-2008</ref> According to the ''Washington Post'':
 :The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) is a New York-based think tank headed by [[Peter Pitts]], a former Food and Drug Administration official who appears frequently on newscasts condemning Democratic health-care proposals. CMPI is an offshoot of the San Francisco-based [[Pacific Research Institute]], which has received foundation grants over the years from [[Philip Morris]], [[Pfizer]] and the [[Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America]], according to public records.
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-[[Category:Think Tanks]][[Category:Pharma]]
+[[Category:Think Tanks]][[Category:Pharma]][[Category:Astroturf]]

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 *[[Mark Thornton]], M.D., Ph.D. Chairman and President, Sarcoma Foundation of America
 *[[Michael Weber]], M.D. Professor of Medicine SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York
-*[[Catherine Barr Windels]], Principle, [[OnPoint Strategies, LLC]] (foormerly of [[Pfizer]]<ref>CPMI Board of Directors, [http://www.cmpi.org/about-us/board-of-directors/ About Us], ''Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest'', Accessed 24-May-2010</ref>
+*[[Catherine Barr Windels]], Principle, [[OnPoint Strategies, LLC]] (formerly of [[Pfizer]]<ref>CPMI Board of Directors, [http://www.cmpi.org/about-us/board-of-directors/ About Us], ''Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest'', Accessed 24-May-2010</ref>
 ===Founders===

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 ===Board of Directors===
 *[[Gad Berdugo]], General Partner, Explorium Capital LLC
-*[[cpmi|Fred Goodwin]], M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, The George Washington University Medical Center.
+*[[Fred Goodwin (psychiatrist)|Fred Goodwin]], M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, The George Washington University Medical Center.
 *[[Steven Sammut]], Lecturer, Wharton School, the Law School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Pennsylvania
 *[[Mark Thornton]], M.D., Ph.D. Chairman and President, Sarcoma Foundation of America

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 *[[Mark Thornton]], M.D., Ph.D. Chairman and President, Sarcoma Foundation of America
 *[[Michael Weber]], M.D. Professor of Medicine SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York
-*[[Catherine Barr Windels]], Principle, OnPoint Strategies, LLC<ref>CPMI Board of Directors, [http://www.cmpi.org/about-us/board-of-directors/ About Us], ''Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest'', Accessed 24-May-2010</ref>
+*[[Catherine Barr Windels]], Principle, [[OnPoint Strategies, LLC]] (foormerly of [[Pfizer]]<ref>CPMI Board of Directors, [http://www.cmpi.org/about-us/board-of-directors/ About Us], ''Centre for Medicine in the Public Interest'', Accessed 24-May-2010</ref>
 ===Founders===

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 Until at least 2006 the CMPI published an advisory board.<ref>CMPI [http://web.archive.org/web/20060113193713/www.rxcmpi.org/board/index.html CMPI Advisory board], retrieved from the Internet Archive of 13 January 2006, accessed 25 may 2010</ref>
 ====January 2006====
-*[[Joesph L. Bast]] President and CEO, The [[Heartland Institute]], Chicago, IL
+*[[Joesph L. Bast]] President and CEO, The [[Heartland Institute]], Chicago, IL | [[John E. Calfee]] Senior Fellow, [[American Enterprise Institute]], Washington, D.C. | [[Joseph A. DiMasi]], Ph.D. Director of Economic Analysis, [[Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development]], Tufts University, Boston, MA | [[Helen Disney]] Director, [[Stockholm Network]], London, England | [[Robert Goldberg]] Senior Fellow Manhattan Institute | [[John R. Graham]] Director for Healthcare Studies Pacific Research Institute | [[John Kamp]] Executive Director, [[Coalition for Healthcare Communication]] | [[Sam Kazman]] General Counsel, [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] | [[Thomas T. Kubic]] Executive Director [[Pharmaceutical Security Institute]] | Dr. [[Merrill Mathews, Jr.]] Resident Scholar, [[Institute for Policy Innovation]] Director, [[Council for Affordable Health Insurance]] | [[David McIntosh]] Attorney, [[Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw]] LLP, Washington, D.C. | [[Henry I. Miller]] Research Fellow [[Hoover Institution]] | [[Julian Morris]] Director, [[International Policy Network]], London | [[Sally C. Pipes]] President and CEO [[Pacific Research Institute]] | [[Peter J. Pitts]] Senior Fellow for Healthcare Studies [[Pacific Research Institute]] Senior Vice President for Health Affairs [[Manning, Selvage & Lee]] | [[Stephen Pollard]] Senior Fellow at the [[Centre for the New Europe]], Brussels, Belgium | [[William Roper]] CEO, University of North Carolina Health Care System | [[Ellen V. Sigal]], Ph.D. Founder and Chairperson, [[Friends of Cancer Research]] | [[Samuel C. Silverstein]], M.D. John C. Dalton Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University | [[Philip Stieg]], M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Medical College Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian Hospital | [[Daniel E. Troy]] Former Chief Counsel of the [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) Partner in the Washington, New York Offices of [[Sidley Austin Brown & Wood]] | [[Grace Marie Turner]] President, The [[Galen Institute]] | [[Ben Zycher]] Senior Fellow in Economics, [[Pacific Research Institute]] Adjunct scholar, [[Cato Institute]], [[Claremont Institute]]
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 *[[John E. Calfee]] Senior Fellow, [[American Enterprise Institute]], Washington, D.C.
 *[[Joseph A. DiMasi]], Ph.D. Director of Economic Analysis, [[Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development]], Tufts University, Boston, MA
-*[[Helen Disney]] Director, [[Stockholm Network]], London, England | [[Robert Goldberg]] Senior Fellow Manhattan Institute | [[John R. Graham]] Director for Healthcare Studies Pacific Research Institute | [[John Kamp]] Executive Director, [[Coalition for Healthcare Communication]] | [[Sam Kazman]] General Counsel, [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] | [[Thomas T. Kubic]] Executive Director [[Pharmaceutical Security Institute]] | Dr. [[Merrill Mathews, Jr.]] Resident Scholar, [[Institute for Policy Innovation]] Director, [[Council for Affordable Health Insurance]] | [[David McIntosh]] Attorney, [[Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw]] LLP, Washington, D.C. | [[Henry I. Miller]] Research Fellow [[Hoover Institution]] | [[Julian Morris]] Director, [[International Policy Network]], London | Sally C. Pipes
+*[[Helen Disney]] Director, [[Stockholm Network]], London, England | [[Robert Goldberg]] Senior Fellow Manhattan Institute | [[John R. Graham]] Director for Healthcare Studies Pacific Research Institute | [[John Kamp]] Executive Director, [[Coalition for Healthcare Communication]] | [[Sam Kazman]] General Counsel, [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] | [[Thomas T. Kubic]] Executive Director [[Pharmaceutical Security Institute]] | Dr. [[Merrill Mathews, Jr.]] Resident Scholar, [[Institute for Policy Innovation]] Director, [[Council for Affordable Health Insurance]] | [[David McIntosh]] Attorney, [[Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw]] LLP, Washington, D.C. | [[Henry I. Miller]] Research Fellow [[Hoover Institution]] | [[Julian Morris]] Director, [[International Policy Network]], London | Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO [[Pacific Research Institute]] | [[Peter J. Pitts]] Senior Fellow for Healthcare Studies [[Pacific Research Institute]], Senior Vice President for Health Affairs [[Manning, Selvage & Lee]] | [[Stephen Pollard]] Senior Fellow at the [[Centre for the New Europe]], Brussels, Belgium | [[William Roper]] CEO, University of North Carolina Health Care System | [[Ellen V. Sigal]], Ph.D. Founder and Chairperson, [[Friends of Cancer Research]] | [[Samuel C. Silverstein]], M.D. John C. Dalton Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University | [[Philip Stieg]], M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Medical College Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian Hospital | [[Daniel E. Troy]] Former Chief Counsel of the [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) Partner in the Washington, New York Offices of [[Sidley Austin Brown & Wood]] | [[Grace Marie Turner]] President, The [[Galen Institute]] | [[Ben Zycher]] Senior Fellow in Economics, [[Pacific Research Institute]] Adjunct scholar, [[Cato Institute]], [[Claremont Institute]]
 President and CEO [[Pacific Research Institute]] | [[Peter J. Pitts]] Senior Fellow for Healthcare Studies [[Pacific Research Institute]]
 ====??====
 *[[Joesph L. Bast]] President and CEO, The [[Heartland Institute]], Chicago, IL

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 CMPI was 'a big player' in the U.S. anti-health reform movement in late 2009. They sponsored anti-Obama tea party protests and organized a 'U.S. Policymakers' series that hosted anti-health reform interviews with a 'not-so-broad range of Republican lawmakers, including [[Michele Bachmann]], [[Joe Wilson]], [[Jim DeMint]], [[David Vitter]]'. They also produced 'a number of anti-health reform online ads and video and even anti-health reform video games'.<ref>Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show, ''MSNBC'', 18-November-2009, 9PM EST</ref>
-[[Porter Novelli]] the PR firm that employs [[Peter Pitts]] who heads CMPI, 'helped that industry kill the Patients Bill of Rights way back in 1994', arguing that it was part of a 'big government agenda', the same arguments used to dicredit the US Healthcare reforms in 2009.<ref>Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show, ''MSNBC'', 18-November-2009, 9PM EST</ref>
+[[Porter Novelli]], the PR firm that employs [[Peter Pitts]] who heads CMPI, 'helped that industry kill the Patients Bill of Rights way back in 1994', arguing that it was part of a 'big government agenda', the same arguments used to dicredit the US Healthcare reforms in 2009.<ref>Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show, ''MSNBC'', 18-November-2009, 9PM EST</ref>
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