Professor and chair of the department of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville. From 2009 to 2013 she was a professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City’s department of Biomedical and Health Informatics. From 1996 to 2009 she was a professor at Dartmouth Medical School and director of the Gynecologic Cancer…
David Graham, MD, an epidemiologist is FDA’s Associate Director of Drug Safety who, throughout his career, has been a thorn for FDA managers by identifying serious hazardous effects of FDA-approved drugs. In 1999, his data helped identify the risk of liver damage from Pfizer’s diabetes drug Rezulin — which eventually was withdrawn from the market….
Curt D. Furberg, MD, an internationally recognized cardiovascular epidemiologist with expertise in clinical trials, drug safety and public health. Dr. Furberg is a Professor Emeritus of Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest University who has chaired NIH’s Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack (ALLHAT) Steering Committee and has been a vocal advocate for…
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, is professor at the Center for bioethics, University of Minnesota. He received his medical degree from the University of South Carolina, and his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author or editor of seven books including White Coat, Black Hat. Dr. Elliott’s articles have appeared…
Bernice Eddy, PhD (1903–1989) a virologist and epidemiologist at NIH, identified SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus that millions of children were exposed to from contaminated polio vaccines.In 1954, while the NIH was testing the first commercial polio vaccines, Eddy’s job was to test the vaccines from five different companies. She and her staff worked around…
Nora Coffey is a prominent women’s health advocate, activist and educator who founded the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation in 1982. The foundation is the only independent nonprofit organization solely dedicated to the alternatives to and aftermath of hysterectomy. In 1978, Nora Coffey, then in her mid-thirties, had surgery which sent shock waves throughout…
Toni Bark, MD, MHEM, LEED is licensed in Illinois. She received her medical degree from Rush Medical College in 1986, and did postgraduate internship in Pediatrics and Rehabilitative Medicine at New York University; and her Pediatric Residency at the University of Illinois. She has experience as the medical director of hospital Pediatric Emergency Room, the Neonatal…
Dr. Sydney Brenner, PhD, Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine (2002), deplores the current profit-driven culture in science. A culture in which he believes — as do a significant growing number of genuine scientists and physicians — genuine breakthroughs and important discoveries are impeded. In a recent interview in King’s Review magazine (2014) he expressed his critical views of…
Fred A. Baughman Jr, MD, a neurologist in private practice for 35 years. He differentiates diagnoses of “disease” (real diseases — epilepsy, brain tumor, multiple sclerosis, etc.) from “no disease” diagnoses (emotional, psychological, psychiatric). He has discovered and described real, bona fide diseases. He accuses psychiatry of having made up a list of the most…
The first woman Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, currently Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Her book, The Truth About the Drug Companies (2004). Her rude awakening to the “ubiquitous” conflicts of interest in medicine was when she was pushed out of in her position at the NEJM….
Dr. Karen Effrem is a pediatrician, researcher, and conference speaker. Dr. Effrem’s undergraduate degree is in Pharmacy from Purdue University, her medical degree is from Johns Hopkins University and her pediatric training is from the University of Minnesota. She has provided testimony for Congress, as well as in-depth analysis of numerous pieces of major federal…
John Oller, PhD Dr. Oller is a Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Louisiana which recruited him to create a new PhD program in Applied Language and Speech Sciences. Before that he founded the department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Oller’s research has concentrated on the theory and experimental measurement…
