The Ethics of Ghost Authorship in Biomedical Research:
Concerns and RemediesWednesday May 4th, 2011
from 8:30 am to 5:15 pm FLA (Classroom A), Flavelle House
78 Queen’s Park Avenue
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Recent controversies have raised concerns about the integrity of authorship in scientific publications, particularly when pharmaceutical corporations pay undisclosed ghostwriters to prepare journal articles to which academic experts lend their names. Ghostwriting and its implications will be the focus of an intensive one-day workshop, which will bring together medical researchers, legal scholars, medical journal editors, academic administrators, clinicians, medical writers, bioethics experts, patient advocates, and a US congressional investigator. The workshop aims at exploring the various implications for academia, medical research, clinical practice, and the legal system and to discuss remedies to curb or control the practice. Speakers and commentators include Mario Biagioli, An-Wen Chan, Jocalyn Clark, Raymond Devries, Bijan Esfandiari, Lorraine Ferris, Adriane Fugh-Berman, David Healy, David Korn, Linda Logdberg, Trudo Lemmens, Alastair Matheson, Leemon McHenry, David McKnight, Harriet Rosenberg, Sergio Sismondo, Simon Stern, Paul Thacker and Ross Upshur. The event is sponsored by: the Centre for Ethics; the Centre for Innovation, Law and Policy; the Joint Centre for Bioethics; and the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto, as well as by a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council on the Ethics of Biomedical Research. Participation is free but registration is required. The audience is limited to 50 people and registrations will be taken until the limit is achieved. People will only be admitted if registered. A limited number of places is available for students. For registration contact Tara Park at tara.park@utoronto.ca, with your name, professional affiliation, address, phone number, and e-mail address. Registration deadline: April 22nd |
