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BMJ Editorial Dept

Declaration of competing interests - Editorial Department

Question


Deborah Cohen Sharon Davies
1. Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?


  a. Reimbursement for attending
  a symposium?
No No
  b. A fee for speaking?
No No
  c. A fee for organising education?
No No
  d. Funds for research?
No Yes
  e. Funds for a member of staff?
No No
  f. Fees for consulting?
No No
2. Have you in the past five years been employed by an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
No No
  a. Do you hold any stocks or    shares in an organisation?
No No
  b. Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No I am a member of the BMA pension fund.
  c. I have no competing interests/I have the following competing interests
No No

Declaration of competing interests (Editorial) - continued

Question Tony Delamothe Annabel Ferriman Kristina Fister John Fletcher
1. Have you in the past five
years accepted the following
from an organisation that
may in any way gain or
lose financially from the
publication of papers
in the BMJ



  a. Reimbursement for attending a symposium? No No No No
  b. A fee for speaking? Occasional fees
for postgraduate
centres and other
journals’
editorial boards		 No I have
received
fees for
speaking
for several
scholarly
institutions.		 Yes.
I accept
fees for
speaking
at post
graduate educational meetings.
  c. A fee for organising education? No No No No
  d. Funds for research? No No No No
  e. Funds for a member of staff? No No No No
  f. Fees for consulting? No I received
£1,000 from
Shire Health
International
in 2002, for
acting
as a judge
in a competition
for journalists,
writing on the
topic of obesity.
It was sponsored
by Roche		 No Yes. I have conducted
health risk modelling for Norwich Union.
2. Have you in the past five
years been employed by an organisation that may in any
way gain or lose financially
from the publication of
papers in the BMJ?		 No No I am
employed
by Andrija
Stampar
School of
Public Health,
Zagreb University
School of Medicine.		 No
   a. Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation? I have a Wired
Index ISA, which
includes a few
pharmaceutical
companies among
its portfolio
of 40 (changing)
companies.
For the current list
see: http://www.
wiredindexisa.com
/forgetthedow.html
I have shares in News International		 I hold stocks
and shares
in a
range of
organisations,
including
Sainsbury’s,
M&S, National
Grid, and
Santander
Bank, but I
do not hold
any stocks or
shares in any pharmaceutical companies		 No Requested
   b. Do you have any other competing financial interests? I am a member of the BMA pension fund. No No Requested
   c. I have no competing interests/I have the following competing interests I am married to
an obstetrician/
gynaecologist
who works in the
NHS and the
private
sector and is
obstetrician for
Holloway Prison.
My family and
I have private
health insurance.
I am a
member
of the
European Federation
for Medical
Informatics.
I personally
know some of
the authors
who submit to
the BMJ. I
don’t believe
this clouds my judgement in
critical appraisal
and decision making.		 Requested

Declaration of competing interests (Editorial) - continued

Question Fiona Godlee
Trish Groves Trevor Jackson
1. Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ? No
No No
  a. Reimbursement
 for attending a symposium?		 No
No No
  b. A fee for speaking? No
I have received fees for speaking, but only from postgraduate centres. If any such fees have been provided by commercial sponsors at academic meetings, I have not been aware of it. No
  c. A fee for organising education? No
No No
  d. Funds for research? No
No No
  e. Funds for a member of staff? No
No No
 f. Fees for consulting? No
No No
2. Have you in the past five years been employed by an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ? No
I have edited papers for Prescrire International, a journal that receives no funding from pharmaceutical companies. No
   a. Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation? No
No stocks or shares, though I belong to the BMA pension fund and do not know what they invest in. EMAP
   b. Do you have any other competing financial interests? No
No No
   c. I have no competing interests/I have the following competing interests FG is a trustee for the Guys and St Thomas's Charity
I know personally many of the BMJs authors and reviewers, having met them at editorial meetings and at conferences. I try not to let this bias the decisions we make about papers.I have longstanding and academic interests in primary care and psychiatry. I am a member of the National Secular Society

Declaration of competing interests (Editorial) - continued

Question Giselle Jones Elizabeth Loder
 Peter Lapsley Chris
Martyn
1. Have you in the
past five years accepted
the following from an
organisation that may in
any way gain or lose
financially from the
publication of papers
in the BMJ?		 No


  a. Reimbursement for attending a symposium? No Yes, I have been reimbursed by many professional organizations for expenses incurred in attending symposia, meetings or courses, generally in connection with a speaking engagement or board meeting. Yes: In 2004, my
attendance
at the European
Association of Dermatologists
Conference was
sponsored by Leo Pharmaceuticals.		 Yes Abbott
Laboratories
(UK)
Nancy Low
Associates
New York
  b. A fee for speaking? No Yes, I have received honoraria for lectures on topics related to headache and pain from pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and professional organizations and associations. At present I speak only at academic and professional meetings and when offered I do accept speaking fees for these talks. No Numerous
societies
  c. A fee for organising education? No No
No No
  d. Funds for research? No Yes, I have been an investigator in many clinical trials of headache treatments funded by pharmaceutical or device companies. As a hospital employee, I do not directly receive research money; the hospital contracts with the company and then pays me for my work on the trial from those funds. No Yes Abbott
Laboratories
  e. Funds for a member of staff? No No No Yes
numerous
Charities
and funding Agencies
  f. Fees for consulting? No
Yes, I have received fees for consulting from academic organizations, such as the Thomas Jefferson Office of Health Policy, and from professional organizations such as the American Headache Society or National Headache Foundation for consulting on specific educational or research projects. I have received consulting fees from medical education, pharmaceutical or medical device companies for consulting or serving on advisory boards related to product development, research design, and marketing.
No Yes Abbott
Labs Health
Canada
2. Have you in the past
five years been employed
by an organisation that
may in any way gain or
lose financially from the publication of papers
in the BMJ?		 No Yes, I have been an employee of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and now am an employee of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Both are members of Partners Healthcare Network, a nonprofit healthcare corporation. Partners and its institutions are heavily involved in medical research and Partners benefits from the publication success of its researchers. I am chief
executive
of the Skin
Care Campaign
(SCC),
an organisation
run by patients
for patients
to improve
dermatology
services in
the UK.
The SCC is
wholly funded
(in equal measure)
by 13
pharmaceutical
companies -
Allergan Ltd,
Astellas Pharma
UK, Beiersdorf Ltd, Dermal
Laboratories
Ltd, Galderma
(UK) Ltd,
Leo
Pharmaceuticals,
Mölnlycke Health
Care Ltd,
Reckitt Benckiser,
Schering-Plough
Ltd, Serono
Limited, Shire Pharmaceuticals
Group plc (U. K.),
Stiefel Laboratories
(UK) Ltd and 3M Healthcare Limited.		 Yes, I’m
currently
employed
by the
Medical
Research
Council.
   a. Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation? No Yes, individually and with my husband I hold shares or stock in many companies and mutual funds. I am a partner in a family trust that holds real estate, farm and energy interests in the US. To the best of my knowledge, none of these investments involves drug, medical device or health care companies.
No
   b. Do you have any other competing financial interests? No My husband is a partner in a law firm that provides services to many clients in the healthcare field, but his work does not involve healthcare.
No
  c. I have no competing interests/I have the following competing interests No I serve as an associate editor (unpaid) for the journal Headache. I am active in the International Headache Society and the American Headache Society. As chief executive
of the SCC,
much of my work
is focused
chiefly on skin
diseases and
dermatology.
I am also a
member of the
Royal College
of Physicians
Patient & Carer
Network; a patient
advisor to
the All Party
Parliamentary Group
on Skin (APPGS) and
a member of the
APPGS Steering Group;
deputy chair of the
Department of Health’s
Dermatology Workforce
Group
and a member of the
Department’s Care
Closer to Home
dermatology sub-group;
and a Trustee of
the DPP (Developing Patient Partnerships).		 Honorary
appointment
with School of
Medicine,
University of
Southampton
Member of the
Howard League
Member of the Association
of British
Neurologists
Member of the Association of
Physicians
Member
of the Labour
Party I know
personally
researchers who submit papers
to the BMJ

Declaration of competing interests (Editorial) - continued

Question Tessa Richards Sara Schroter Jane Smith Birte
Twisselmann
1. Have you in the
past five years
accepted the
following from
an organisation
that may in any
way gain or lose
financially from
the publication of
papers in the BMJ
No
No
  a. Reimbursement for attending a symposium? No I have
presented
findings from
my research
studies
and been
reimbursed by
the organising
committee
for my travel
and
accommodation.
Some of
these meetings
may have been
funded directly
or indirectly by
pharmaceutical
companies.
I have also
conducted
workshops
advertised
as part of a
conference
and there
may have
been indirect
funding
from private
companies.
I have never
received a
fee for speaking
– only
reimbursement of expenses.		 No No
  b. A fee for speaking? No No No No
  c. A fee for organising education? No I have
received
payments for
teaching by
various
postgraduate
organisations
and small
companies
teaching
research
writing skills		 No No
  d. Funds for research? No I have
conducted
some research
funded by
Bayer.
I was
responsible
for the
analysis of
the raw data
of one of the
outcomes
from a
clinical trial.
I had full
control of
the data
analysis for
this aspect
of the
research and
wrote a report
of the findings.
A paper was
subsequently
published in
Chest in 2002
describing this
analysis.		 No No
  e. Funds for a member of staff? No No No No
  f. Fees for consulting? No No No No
2. Have you in the
past five years been
employed by an
organisation that
may in any way
gain or lose
financially
from the publication
of papers in the BMJ?		 No I have been an
Honorary
Lecturer at the
London School
of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine
since I left full
time employment
with them in 2001.
While many of my colleagues at
LSHTM submit
research to
the BMJ, I am
not involved
in making
decisions on
what gets
published in the
journal.		 No No
   a. Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation? Lloyds Bank
Choice PEP
James Sharp
and Co ISA		 I am a member
of the BMA
pension fund,
but don’t know
where its funds
are invested.		 I have savings
in the form of
stocks and
shares in a
managed fund.
I should think
that the fund
holds some pharmaceutical
company shares
at any one time,
but I don’t have
control over what
shares are in
the fund. I am a member of the
BMA’s pension
fund.		 I am a
member
of the
BMA
pension
fund.
  b. Do you have any other competing financial interests? No No No No
  c. I have no competing interests
 /I have the following competing interests		 I have a specific
interest and
experience in
general practice, rheumatology,
EU health
issues and
medicine in
developing
and transitional countries.		 All research
papers that
I submit to the
BMJ undergo
assessment a
nd peer review
by our external
advisors.
No members
of BMJ staff
are involved
in the decision
making on these
papers and
this is stated
in the competing
interests section
of the papers.
When I submit
papers for
publication about
the publishing
process a
nd peer review
to other journals,
I always declare
that I am
employed by
the BMJ.
I do
occasional translation
work
for
organisations
that receive funding from
the pharmaceutical industry

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