Kay Dickersin - USA

Kay Dickersin - USA

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Competing Interests

Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that way in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
a) Reimbursement for attending a symposium?
I have been reimbursed for travel and lodging when I am an invited speaker. Over the past five years this has included reimbursement (for out of pocket expenses only) from at least one pharmaceutical company that invited me to speak. It is unlikely that the organisation inviting me would be publishing in the BMJ as an organisation, though individulas from the reimbursing organisation might publish.
b) A fee for speaking?
I have not charged a fee for speaking but sometimes there is an honorarium. If I believe there may be any association with a commercial source, I ask that the honorarium be donated to a discretionary account for the Center for Clinical Trials at John Hopkins and not to me directly. It is unlikely that ht eorganisation paying me the honorarium would be publishing in the BMJ, though individuals from the organisation paying the honorarium might publish.
c) A fee for organising education?
I have received an honorarium for serving as a teacher in a course organised and hosted by a non-profit organisation, but I did not organise this course.
d) Funds for research?
I have received funds for research primarily from the US government, but also from small non-profit organisations and the Department in which I work. It is likely that these funding sources would be pleased to see research they fund published in the BMJ. I am not sure they would stand to gain financially from publication however.
e) Funds for a member of staff?
As above.
f) Fees for consulting?
I have received honoraria but I have not billed and been paid for hours of work completed.
Have you in the past five years been employed by any organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
I have been employed by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2005 to the present, and Brown University from 1998-2005. Each institution stands to gain from articles published in the BMJ when the authors of the articles are from that institution.
a) Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation?
All stocks I own are part of a bundle purchased for me by a company managing my retirement investments. I am not exposed to the names of the purchased stocks.
b) Do you have any other competing financial interests?
Not as far as I know.
c) I have no competing interests.



 

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