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1991.06.17 :  Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Scientific Integrity

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June 17, 1991

        HHS Assistant Secretary for Health James O. Mason, M.D.,
today announced the appointment of the 11 members of a new Public
Health Service Advisory Committee on Scientific Integrity.
        Dr. Mason, who heads the Public Health Service, said the
advisory committee will review and evaluate the policies and
procedures of the PHS for detecting, deterring and investigating
scientific misconduct.
        The PHS agencies concerned about scientific misconduct
include the National Institutes of Health, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse,
and Mental Health Administration, the Food and Drug Administration,
the Centers for Disease Control and other agencies supporting
research under the Public Health Service Act.
        Members of the committee announced today are:
     -- Nicholas H. Steneck, Ph.D. (who will serve as chairman),
professor and director of the Historical Center for the Health
Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  He is an expert
in the history of science and has a longstanding research interest
in science-related ethics and values.

     -- Stuart Bondurant, M.D., clinical researcher, research
administrator and dean of the School of Medicine at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He has participated in HHS
commissions and in review and advisory committees of the NIH and
has been chairman of the membership committee of the Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.  

     -- Roger Bulger, M.D., president and chief executive officer
of the Association of Academic Health Centers.  He has been
president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston, professor of medicine at the University of Texas Medical
School at Houston and professor of public health at the University
of Texas School of Public Health at Houston.

     -- Daniel Callahan, Ph.D., co-founder and director of The
Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., a research and educational
organization examining ethical issues in medicine, biology and the
professions.  He serves on ethics committees in foundations and
professional associations, and has written extensively on ethics.

     -- Estelle A. Fishbein, vice president and general counsel of
the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., with knowledge of
legal concerns in investigations of misconduct in science at the
university level.  Mrs. Fishbein is a former president of the
National Association of College and University Attorneys.

     -- Paul J. Friedman, M.D., a professor in radiology and dean
for academic affairs at the School of Medicine of the University of
California, San Diego, at La Jolla.  He has investigated scientific
misconduct and was a member of the committee that developed the
Institute of Medicine Report on the Responsible Conduct of Research
in the Health Sciences.

     -- Alfred Heller, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher on
neurotransmission in the brain and professor and former chairman of
the department of pharmacological and physiological sciences at the
University of Chicago.  He has been a member of several study
sections and review committees and of the National Advisory Council
of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

     -- Frances Degen Horowitz, Ph.D., a researcher in child
development and vice chancellor for research at the University of
Kansas in Lawrence.  She has written on problems relating to data
ownership, retention and access.  On Sept. 1, she will become
president of the Graduate School and University Center of the City
University of New York.

     -- Karl A. Piez, Ph.D., a researcher and laboratory chief in
the intramural research program at the National Institutes of
Health for more than 30 years.  He holds several patents, and spent
nine years in the biotechnology industry as vice president of
research of the Collagen Corporation.  He is now professor of
biochemistry and molecular biology at Jefferson Medical College of
the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.  He holds an
appointment as scholar-in-residence at the National Institutes of
Health.

     -- Drummond Rennie, M.D., deputy editor (west) of the Journal
of the American Medical Association and former deputy editor of the
New England Journal of Medicine.  He has extensive clinical
research experience and is adjunct professor of medicine at the
Institute for Health Policy Studies of the University of
California, San Francisco.

     -- John H. Wallace, Ph.D., a researcher in immunology and
microbiology and chairman emeritus and professor  of the department
of microbiology and immunology of the University of Louisville
Health Sciences Center, Louisville, Ky.  He has chaired the board
of counselors of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases and served on the Cancer Research Manpower Review
Committee of the National Cancer Institute and the American Society
for Microbiology's committee on ethical practices.

        Dr. Mason said that the PHS is identifying scientific,
legal, and ethical issues for careful consideration by these non-
government experts.  The first meeting of the committee is
scheduled for July 15-16 at the National Institutes of Health,
Building 31, Conference Room 7, in Bethesda, Md.  The meeting will
be open to the public.

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