Geriatrics Review Syllabus 4

Disclosure of Financial Interests

As an accredited provider of Continuing Medical Education, The American Geriatric Society is required to ask speakers to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest they may have as related to the contents of their chapter(s). The existence of commercial or financial interests of authors related to the subject matter of their chapter(s) should not be construed as implying bias or decreasing the value of their chapter(s). However, disclosure should help participants form their own judgments.

Those authors who disclosed affiliations or financial interests with the commercial organizations involved with products, to which they may refer, are listed below.

George Alexopoulous, MD

Dr. Alexopoulous acts as a consultant to and has received research grants from Forest and is a speaker for that company as well as Lilly, Pfizer, Inc., Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Parke-Davis, Smith Kline, Glaxo Welcome and Wyeth-Ayerst.

Byron Bair, MD

Dr. Bair speaks for and has received grants from Pfizer, Inc. and Lilly, and also speaks for Bristol Myers Squibb where he acts as a consultant.

Michael A. Blazing, MD

Dr. Blazing speaks for, is a consultant to and has received grants from Merck Laboratories, and also speaks for and is consultant to RPR, Pfizer, Inc. and Parke-Davis.

John T. Boyer, MD

Dr. Boyer is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for Merck Laboratories, Bayer Corporation and Pfizer, Inc.

Sally L. Brooks, MD

Dr. Brooks acts a consultant for Cartenders, Inc.

Eugene Burke, MD

Dr. Burke is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for Pfizer, Inc. and Janssen Pharmaceuticals.

Christopher M. Callahan, MD

Dr. Callahan has received grants from Eli Lilly and Company.

Lawrence Cheskin, MD

Dr. Cheskin is a consultant to, has received grants from and speaks for Roche and Procter & Gamble.

G. Willy Davila

Dr. Davila serves a consultant for, is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for and has received grants from Phamacia-Upjohn, has received grants from and speaks for Wyeth-Ayerst and Solray, has also received grants from Watson-Theratech, Bard, Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson, and is also a member of the Speaker's Bureau for Alza.

Catherine DuBeau, MD

Dr. DuBeau serves as a consultant for Pharmacia-Upjohn.

William B. Ershler, MD

Dr. Ershler acts as a conultant for, has received grants from and speaks for Wyeth-Ayerst, Glaxo-Wellcome and Ortho Biotech, and is also a speaker for Merck Laboratories.

Thomas Finucane, MD

Dr. Finucane has received grants from NIH, ACP and AGS.

F. Michael Gloth, MD

Dr. Gloth has received grant support from, consults and is a speaker for Merck, and also has received grants from and consults for Procter & Gamble. Dr. Gloth has also received grant support from Purdue Pharma , acts as a consultant and speaks for Ortho-McNeil and MetraBiosystems, acts as a consultant for Dianon, and is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for Purdue-Frederick, Wyeth-Ayerst, Pfizer and Novartis.

Dilip V. Jeste, MD

Dr. Jeste has received grants from and acts as a consultant to Abbot Laboratories, Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Pfizer and Astra-Zeneca.

Fran E. Kaiser, MD

Dr. Kaiser holds significant shares in Merck & Co., Inc.

Gary J. Kennedy, MD

Dr. Kennedy is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for Pfizer and Janssen.

Laurie Lindamer, MD

Dr. Lindamer acts as a consultant for Lilly and has received grant support from Berlex Labs.

Robert D. Lindeman, MD

Dr. Lindeman holds significant shares in Merck & Co., Inc.

John E. Morley, MB, B.Ch

Dr. Morley has received grant support from and is a speaker for Merck & Co., and B. Braun McGaw. He has also received grants from Vivus, Upjohn, Bayer Corporation and Nestec, Ltd., and is also a speaker for LXN, Organon, Ross, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Glaxo Wellcome, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Searle, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, Pratt, Pfizer and Parke-Davis.

Jeffrey M. Robbins, DPM

Dr. Robbins acts as a consultant and is a member of the Speaker's Board for Novartis, Ortho-McNeil and Dermik.

Kenneth Shay, DDS, MS

Dr. Shay is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for the American Dental Association as well as Procter & Gamble where he acts as a consultant.

Gary W. Small, MD

Dr. Small speaks for, has received grants from and serves as a consultant for Pfizer and Wyeth-Ayerst. Dr. Small has also acted as consultant for and is a speaker for Bayer, Novartis, Lilly and Janssen. He has received grants from Searle as well as Forest, where he serves as a consultant. Dr. Small is also a consultant to Abbott and Glaxo Wellcome.

Peggy A. Szwabo, PhD, MSW, RN

Dr. Szwabo is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for Pharmedica, Pfizer, Abbott and Janssen, and has received grants from the Alzheimer's Association.

George E. Taffet, MD

Dr. Taffet has received grants from Eli Lilly.

George Taler, MD

Dr. Taler serves as a consultant for Ross Laboratories, Smith & Nephew and EverCare.

James R. Webster, Jr., MD

Dr. Webster acts as a consultant for, has received grants from and is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for Pfizer and Novartis.

 

Those authors who listed no affiliations with or financial interests in any commercial organizations are listed below:

Wendy L. Adams, MD, MPH

Neil B. Alexander, MD

Richard Bennett, MD

Steven Berk, MD

Fred H. Bess, PhD

Leo M. Cooney, Jr., MD

Vincent J. Cristofalo, PhD

Arthur J. Dalton, PhD

Paul Eggers, PhD

Alastair Flint, MB, BCh

Anthony N. Galanos, MD

Jeffrey S. Gall, PhD

Barbara Gilchrest, MD

Marian E. Gornick, MA

Helen Hoenig, MD

Matthew Janicki, PhD

Larry E. Johnson, MD

Thomas V. Jones, MD, MPH

James Judge, MD

Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH

Brenda Keller, MD

B. J. Kennedy, MD

Janice E. Knoefel, MD, MPH

Gary Kochersberger, MD

Rosemary D. Laird, MD

Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD

Conrad May, MD

David Mehr, MD, MS

Bookanakere S. Niranjan, MD, MPH

L. Gregory Pawlson, MD

Peter Pompei, MD

Robert P. Roca, MD, MPH

Gary S. Rubin, PhD

Noemi V. Rudolph, MPH

David C. Schaefer, MD, PhD

Philip D. Sloane, MD

Stephanie Studenski, MD, MPH

Bruce R. Troen, MD

Jack Twersky, MD

Peter Vaitkevichius

 

We do not have a faculty disclosure on file for the following authors:

Anne Kenny, MD

Joseph Kwentus, MD

James Lubitz, MPH

Joel B. Nelson, MD

James T. Pacala, MD, MS