Charles B. Nemeroff
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Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., is professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and UHealth – University of Miami Health System.[1] Previously, he spent 18 years at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Neuropsychopharmacology, the journal of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology(ACNP). [2]
Controversies
GlaxoSmithKline Payment Disclosures
In 2008, Nemeroff was accused of failing to disclose $500,000 worth of payments from GSK. [3] At the time, he was the main investigator of a collaborative project between Emory University, GSK and the US government’s National Institute of Mental Health investigating ‘five novel GSK antidepressants’. [4]
Cyberonics Payment Disclosures
In 2006, Nemeroff was the primary author of a paper published in Neuropsychopharmacology and wrote in 'positive terms' about Vagus Nerve Stimulation - a medical device manufactured by Cyberonics used for refractory eplipsy and treatment-resistant depression. At the time, he was editor-in-chief of the ACNP journal and head of the Cyberonics advisory board, but failed to disclose financial ties to the company. The ACNP accused Nemeroff of operating a "slick public relations disinformation campaign, hiring a ghostwriter, and incestuously placing the article in his own journal". [5]
Notes
- ↑ University of MiamiUM Miller School of Medicine Names New Chair of Psychiatry] Accessed 30 January 2010.
- ↑ Emory University.Psychiatry: Emory Accessed 2 February 2010.
- ↑ Goldstein, J.The Wall Street Journal. 3 October 2008. Grassley says Emory Psychiatrist Didnt Report 500,000 in Payments Accessed 3 February 2010.
- ↑ Grassley, C. 2 October 2008. Senate Letter Accessed 2 February 2010.
- ↑ McHenry L., (2010), Of Sophists and Spin-Doctors: Industry-Sponsored Ghostwriting and the Crisis of Academic Medicine. In: Psychopharmacology Today: Some Issues (A.R. Singh and S.A. Singh eds.), MSM, 8, Jan - Dec 2010, p129-145.
