Credibility Gap & Pharma Influence on Psychiatry

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CORRECTION Re: Credibility Gap & Pharma Influence on Psychiatry

 

 

 

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)

Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability

www.ahrp.org

 

FYI

 

The recent $5 million gift from Johnson & Johnson (the parent company

of Janssen Pharmaceuticals) was not awarded to the department of child

psychiatry at Columbia as reported in earelier Infomail,

but rather to the department of Neuroscience, headed by Dr. John Mann.

See: http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/about/defining_the_future

 

Below is the correct citation linking Janssen Pharmaceutical and the

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Columbia University.

 

This three day colloquium was a collaborative effort by industry-

influenced stakeholders in academia and government who have embarked

on an aggressive TeenScreen promotional campaign.

 

This pharmaceutical sponsored colloquium had dual goals which a

gullible press has failed to discern. The first goal was to promote a

myth through selected media-- that large numbers of American children

suffer from undetected, mental illness.

 

The second goal was to SELL TeenScreen as a valid suicide detection

/prevention tool.

 

Both of these claims are pure myth created inorder to increase the

market of drugs that have failed to demonstrate a benefit justifying

the risks of harm.

 

 

 

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974

veracare

 

 

 

 

Children and Mental Illness: A

Colloquium on Creating

 

Coverage That Makes a Difference

 

The Columbia University Division of

 

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

 

&

 

The Columbia University Graduate Schoolof Journalism

 

The Carmel Hill Center for the Early Diagnosis and

 

Treatment of Mental Illness

 

Columbia University Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

 

1775 Broadway . Suite 715 . New York, NY 10019

 

 

www.TeenScreen.org

 

The colloquium was sponsored by The Carmel Hill Family Foundation and

unrestricted educational grants secured by the Division of Child and

Adolescence Psychiatry from Janssen Pharmaceutical Products, LP and

McNeilConsumer and Specialty Pharmaceuticals.

 

October 3--5, 2003

 

Colloquium Panelists and Moderators

 

 

Sharon Begley

 

Wall Street Journal

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Thomas Bornemann, Ed.D., Carter Center Mental

Health Program

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Robert Carolla

News Director, NAMI

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Robert Chase

Immediate Past President,

National Education Association

bobnea

 

William Emmet

Project Director, NASMHPD

bill.emmet

 

Robert J. Feiguine, Ph.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology,

Children's Hospital at

New York-Presbyterian Medical Center

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Michael Friedman, CSW, Public Policy, Mental Health

Association of New York City

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Laurie Flynn, The Carmel Hill Center for Early Diagnosis & Treatment,

Columbia University Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Sara Fritz

Washington Bureau Chief,

St. Petersburg Times

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Erica Goode

The New York Times

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Madelyn Gould, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

(in Psychiatry), Columbia University at New York State Psychiatric

Institute

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Laurence Greenhill, M.D.

Ruane Professor of Clinical Psychiatry,

Columbia University College of

Physicians and Surgeons

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Gloria Hochman

Co-author of A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

ghochman

 

Michael F. Hogan, Ph.D.

Chair, President's New Freedom

Commission on Mental Health

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Liisa Hyvarinen

Freelance Print and Broadcast Journalist

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Peter Jensen, M.D., Center for the Advancement

of Children's Mental Health and

Ruane Professor of Child Psychiatry,

Columbia University

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Bill Lichtenstein

President, Lichtenstein Creative

Media, Executive Producer of

The Infinite Mind

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Jonathan Martin

Staff Reporter,

The Seattle Times

jmartin

 

Arlene Morgan

Associate Dean, Columbia University

Graduate School of Journalism

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Sylvia Nasar

The John S. and James J. Knight

Professor of Business Journalism,

Columbia University Graduate School

of Journalism, author of A Beautiful Mind

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Peg Nichols of Communications and

Media Relations, CHADD

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Gloria Pope

External Relations Director, DBSA

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Mark Olfson, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical

Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

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Paul Raeburn

Former Senior Editor, Business Week

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Dan Romer, Ph.D.

Research Director, Institute for

Adolescent Risk Communication,

Annenberg Public Policy Center

dromer

 

Jan Schaffer

Executive Director, J-Lab, The

Institute for Interactive Journalism,

The Philip Merrill College of

Journalism, University of Maryland

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Joanne Silberner

National Public Radio, Health Policy

Correspondent

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Charles R. Soule, Ph.D., School-Based Mental Health

Service Development,

Children's Hospital of New York-

Presbyterian

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Jamie Talan

Staff Reporter, Newsday

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