More firms say they will divulge CME grants

Recently we have read a lot of negativity regarding big Pharma, it is nice to see some positives once n a while as well.  This appears to be a good effort to be transparent and let folks know where the grant dollars go as related to physician CME issues...BD 

More firms say they will divulge CME grants
Several other commercial supporters of CME grants will follow Eli Lilly’s lead in disclosing med-ed funding, officials said at a recent industry conference.
Lilly set a precedent when it launched its online CME grant registry last week. The Web site lists names of grantees, amounts and a description of grants given in the first quarter, and the drug firm pledged to update the list quarterly.
According to senior officials, Pfizer hopes to gain approval in time to apply a similar kind of disclosure to all 2008 education grants. CME executives from Wyeth and Novartis added that they plan to meet with upper management on disclosing grants, as well.

“Pharmaceutical companies right now are very, very interested in being as open and as transparent as we can be, because we feel we actually have an excellent story to tell around drug safety, clinical trials and innovation,” explained Cathryn Clary, MD, MBA, Pfizer US Medical SVP. Speaking at IIR’s Medical Education Congress in Philadelphia last week, Clary said, “The same is going to apply to CME…Everything that we jointly do is going to end up being very open and transparent to the public.”

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