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Pictured (left to right): John G. O'Brien, President and CEO, UMass Memorial Health Care, Gary Lapidas, Senior Vice President, Stephen Tosi, MD, Chief Medical Officer, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Senator Moore, John Randolph, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Walter Ettinger, MD, President, UMass Memorial Medical Center, and Douglas Brown, Senior Vice President and General Counsel

January 16, 2008 ... In recognition of their continued efforts to limit ties between physicians and drug or medical device manufacturers, Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, presented a Resolution from the Massachusetts Senate to UMass Memorial Medical Center administrators last week. 

UMass Memorial Medical Center, the clinical affiliate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, recently adopted some of the strictest conflict of interest rules in the country, designed to sharply limit close ties between doctors and the makers of drugs and medical devices. This policy discourages the corrupting influence of improper and unethical marketing that, too often, places drug and device company profits above the interests of the patients. 

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