3 Harvard Psychiatrists Disciplined Over Drug Company Ties
Submitted on July 4, 2011
By Kristina Chew - July 3, 2011
Three Harvard psychiatrists, including a leading proponent in the off-label use of anti-psychotics for bipolar disorder in children, have been disciplined by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital for not fully disclosing the extent of their ties to drug companies...Drs. Joseph Biederman, Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens are said to have accepted more than $4.2 million from drug companies...for psychiatric research and other activities between 2000-2007, and not reporting the income to Harvard, MGH or the federal government.
