April 06, 2009
Brown Univ. Psychiatry Chief To Step Down
Via Alison Bass, news is out that Martin Keller, the chair of psychiatry at Brown University, will step down from his post in June. It's not clear if he was forced out or if this a "to spend more time with his family" situation, but Keller had to have become a major embarrassment for the school what with Bass' book Side Effects detailing how scuzzy he was in running clinical trials for Paxil in kids (the infamous Study 329), plus an investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley and websites like this one banging on Keller's ties to Big Pharma and his wacky research.
Read Bass' site for more on this.
Posted by Philip Dawdy at April 6, 2009 12:50 PM
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Check your crystal ball for who will be next!
Check out this beautifully written letter to the editor in Brown University's student newspaper:
http://www.browndailyherald.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=acef58da-6a23-4d1a-b97e-d7ab17e5e47b
The link in my previous post is broken. So I am reposting a link to “Pharma policies deserve failing grade” by Sunil Hebbar, M.D., (’12) and Joelle Karlik, M.D. (’12). Members of Brown Pharmaceutical Policy Task Force. (April 6) Published in The Brown Daily Herald, April 7, 2009.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper472/documents/1br6c5ho.pdf
Cheers!
