IRVINE, Calif. – Sept. 24, 2018 - News broke recently of the chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center resignation amid reports that he had failed to disclose millions of dollars in payments from health care companies in dozens of research articles.
One of the authors of a recent JAMA Surgery study titled “Association of Compensation from the Surgical and Medical Device Industry to Physicians and Self-declared Conflict of Interest,” Michael J. Stamos, MD, dean of the UC Irvine School of Medicine and a professor of surgery, found that a large sample of published medical research failed to disclose details on the financial relationships between medical device makers and physicians.
The research also revealed a high level of inconsistency between self-declared conflict of interest and the open payment database among the physicians receiving the highest industry payments. Dr. Stamos and his fellow researchers propose a policy of full disclosure for all publications, regardless of relevance.
Dr. Stamos joined UC Irvine in 2002 and established the Department of Surgery’s Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery and its residency program. He was appointed dean of the School of Medicine in 2017.
Dr. Stamos is available to discuss ethics and standards for physicians to properly disclose conflicts of interest. To arrange an interview, contact Anne Warde at (949) 824-6357 or [email protected].
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