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Conflict of interest list (July 18, 2007). Category: Conflict of interestCategory: Professional details

I was asked to fill out a conflict of interest form for a talk I will be giving in December. While I have not gotten any money directly from drug companies recently, I do have some financial support outside the hospital that might be considered a conflict of interest in some contexts. These sources of support do not relate directly or indirectly to the topic I will be discussing in December (or any of the topics that I plan to discuss), but it it better to disclose too much rather than too little. I will try to update this page as new sources of support appear.

December 2007 (upcoming). I received a $500 honorarium and travel support (approximately $600) from the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology to give a 30 minute talk in Dallas, TX at their annual conference.

September 2007 (upcoming). I received a $500 honorarium from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences

April 2007. I received travel support (approximately $400) from the American Society for Andrology to give a short course in Tampa, FL at their annual conference.

March 2007. I received a $200 honorarium from the Medical Center of Independence to give a one hour seminar for their grand rounds in Independence, MO.

January 2007. I received a grant of $3,200 from Children's Mercy Hospital to study accrual problems in clinical trials.

December 2006. I received $1500 in travel support from the International Quality & Productivity Center to give a talk and short course in London, England at their annual Data Mining and Signal Detection conference

October 2006. I received a $500 honorarium and travel support (approximately $400) from the Midwest Society for Pediatric Research to give a talk in Indianapolis, IN at their annual conference.

Ongoing. Part of my salary is supported by NIH grants. Currently I am listed at 3% effort on the grant "Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit" (NICHD, PI: G. Kearns).

Ongoing. I received royalties (variable, total to date less than $3,000) from Oxford University Press from sales of my book, Statistical Evidence in Medical Trials: What Do the Data Really Tell Us?

There are additional sources of outside support prior to July 2006, which I will try to list when I have time.

This webpage was written by Steve Simon and was last modified on 07/08/2008.