The 14th Annual Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship: 

Dangerous Liaisons? Industry Relations with Health Professionals

September 7 & 8, 2007

Charleston Riverview Hotel
170 Lockwood Blvd

Session I: Keynote Address

Altruism and Self-interest in the Health Professions: An Evolutionary Perspective
Paul Rubin , PhD

Session II: Regulation of Biomedical Research

MODERATOR: Walter Limehouse, MD

Closer Regulation for Industry-Supported Research: Long Overdue
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH

Tight Regulation of Industry-Supported Research? Where’s the Beef?
Sigrid Fry-Revere, PhD

Session III: Gifts from Industry to Health Care Professionals

MODERATOR: Jennifer Baker, PhD

Conflicts of interest and medical education: the Stanford experience Harry Greenberg, MD

Physicians Are Not Children: Gifts Do Not Override Fidelity to Patients Lance Stell, PhD

Table-Talk Sessions, Individual Faculty Member Discussions, with Lunch

Session IV: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

MODERATOR: Jeanine Gage, PhD

DTC Advertising Beneficially Empowers Consumers Paul Antony, MD, MPH

DTC Advertising Harms Patients and Should Be Tightly Regulated Peter Lurie, MD, MPH,

Session V: Industry Support for Medical Education

MODERATOR: George Khushf, PhD

Industry Financial Support for Education Unduly Influences Health Care: The Health Professions Must Do Without It
Howard Brody, MD, PhD

The Benefits of Industry Support Education in Health Care Outweigh Its Harms
Bruce Lytle, MD

5:00 Adjourn

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Session VI: Audience and Faculty Discussion

MODERATOR: Robert Sade, MD

Faculty presents impressions and clarifications

Lytle, Brody, Lurie, Antony , Stell, Greenberg, Fry-Revere , Wynia

Open discussion: audience and faculty