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Bravo, Paul.

UD‘s friend Paul Thacker is now a contributor to Forbes, and his first article shifts our attention from the recent University of Miami football scandal to the ongoing University of Miami Charles Nemeroff scandal.

Nemeroff – arguably America’s most conflict-of-interest-compromised professor – left Emory University under a vast black misconduct cloud, and was immediately, enthusiastically, hired by Donna Shalala at the University of Miami.

Thacker wants to know why. “Why would [UM] … snatch up a physician with such a history?” Why would they ask him to be part of a proposed new ethics center?

Indeed, UM seems to have perceived Nemeroff, with his years of COI problems, as an ethical model. Almost on the same day Shalala announced new rigorous COI standards for faculty, she announced the hiring of Nemeroff. An astounded former faculty member wrote to her:

[H]is seeming lack of integrity in simultaneously accepting “consulting fees” from the very company (Glaxo) whose products were the basis of an NIH grant on which he was the [Primary Investigator] is absolutely outrageous… [H]ow can one reconcile [your recent statements about new ethics policies] with the immediately prior hiring of so questionable an individual to such a prominent position? Does the university not perceive that this may be seen as the worst sort of hypocrisy?

Of course Shalala now has far more dire ethical – and criminal – preoccupations… Still, it isn’t hard to see her bizarre handling of Nemeroff as a kind of precursor.

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Scathing local coverage begins. Paul’s piece only came out about an hour ago.

Margaret Soltan, September 13, 2011 8:38AM
Posted in: conflict of interest

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2 Responses to “Bravo, Paul.”

  1. adam Says:

    There is more Nemeroffian hilarity over on the Pharmalot blog today.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    adam: Yes. Here’s the link.

    http://www.pharmalot.com/2011/09/just-how-close-was-nemeroff-with-glaxo/

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