MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'acre'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:32:19 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2999849&cid=t_270493_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F7PWnZOxv8SQ%2F Who is Thomas Sullivan and why is his name popping up lately? Sullivan is known for a few things - president of Rockpointe, a medical education communications company; a founding member of the Association of Clinical Researchers and Educators, and his Policy and Medicine blog, where he rails against government oversight of the pharmaceutical industry. Besides being an avid defender of CME, he is also a vociferous critic of Chuck Grassley, the Senate Republican who is investigating various pharma issues, including CME. Over the past few days, however, Sullivan has been scrutinized himself. That’s because the Drug Industry Document Archive at the University of California at San Francisco released something Sullivan didn’t want made public - his funding from pharma. In a July 6, 2... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2999849 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:21:12 +0100 2999849 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2989223&cid=t_270493_109_f&fid=38951&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Ftom-sullivan-of-acre-fame-is-swimming.html Wherever there is a vocal battalion of defenders of drug industry funded medical education, you are certain to find Tom Sullivan leading the charge. Sullivan writes the most prolific pro-industry CME website, Policy and Medicine. He is a founding member of ACRE, and managed all the logistics for ACRE's first embarrassing meeting, held at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He collaborates closely with John Kamp, director of the pro-commercial CME front group, Coalition for Healthcare Communication. Simply put, Tom Sullivan loves pharma funding of medical education, and he simply can't get enough of it. Why? If you ask Sullivan, he'll wax idealistic, as he did in one of his recent posts: "Industry CME funding improves quality, because it helps support the development of ... The Carlat Psychiatry Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2989223 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:42:00 +0100 2989223 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2639566&cid=t_270493_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fblogscan-reports-from-acre-meeting.html The proceedings at the first meeting of the benignly titled Association of Clinical Researchers and Educators (ACRE) was chronicled on the Carlat Psychiatry Blog here, and on Postscript, the Prescription Project blog here. ACRE, founded by Dr Thomas Stossel (see relevant post here on the sorts of arguments Dr Stossel has made), was founded to defend academics who are paid on the side by drug, biotechnology, and device companies from the complaints of the "pharmascolds." What I found most troubling was that the conference was officially opened by Dr Jeffrey Flier, the Dean of the Harvard medical school, implying a medical school endorsement of this group, and featured presentations by the presidents of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the American Society of Hypert... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2639566 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:29:00 +0100 2639566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2786016&cid=t_270493_109_f&fid=38951&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Facre-meeting-welcome-to-anger-village.html Yesterday, I attended the charter meeting of ACRE (Association of Clinical Researchers and Educators) in Boston. The title of the conference was “Optimizing Value to Patient Care of Industry-Physician Collaboration,” and the schedule called for 23 speakers over a 6 hour period, all in a hot amphitheater crowded with pharmaceutical reps, doctors, reporters, and miscellaneous others.Obviously, I arrived with a skeptic’s attitude. After all, I had already parodied the organization with this mock blog renaming ACRE “Academics Craving Reimbursement for Everything.” I was not alone in my difficulty taking the organization seriously. On the pharma gossip website, there was an even more vicious parody, in which the organization is renamed Forum for University Corporate Kickbacks in Educa... The Carlat Psychiatry Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2786016 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:02:00 +0100 2786016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2615336&cid=t_270493_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fstossel-and-acre-wheres-beef.html STOSSEL and ACRE – WHERE’S the BEEF?Thomas Stossel from Harvard is at it again. As Daniel Carlat has humorously described, Stossel is planning the inaugural meeting next week of a group to counter those he calls pharmascolds. The group is named ACRE – Association of Clinical Researchers and Educators. Here is its website: http://www.acreonline.org/ For months, Stossel has been warning of the dire negative consequences that will result from tightened conflict of interest policies, but he has not presented any persuasive examples of damage to “productive relationships between industry and physicians involved in clinical research and educational outreach.” At the same time, Dr. Stossel has conveniently overlooked the shenanigans of the bad actors whom Senator Grassley exposed. Dr. S... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2615336 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:30:00 +0100 2615336 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2786019&cid=t_270493_109_f&fid=38951&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Facre-academics-craving-reimbursement.html Everybody’s buzzing about the new organization and website, ACRE, whose purpose is to stem the tide of legislation that is rehabilitating the ethics of physicians.The trouble is, there is some confusion about which is the true ACRE website. Is it this one, which calls itself the "Association of Clinical Researchers and Educators"? Or is it this one, which calls itself "Academics Craving Reimbursement for Everything"? It's devilishly hard to distinguish the two, because their messages are identical.At any rate, either ACRE 1 or Acre 2 is hosting this fancy conference to convince everyone that doctors should be giving more, rather than fewer, promotional talks for drug companies. Incredibly enough, one of the scheduled speakers is Dr. Jeffrey Flier, the dean of Harvard Medical School. I gu... The Carlat Psychiatry Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2786019 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:14:00 +0100 2786019