Yonkers now works at Yale, but she received her medical training at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed a residency and fellowship at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Lee Cohen and Adele Viguera are still at Harvard.
The month after the trial ended, in November 2009, Grassley sent letters to ten medical schools asking them to describe their policies on plagiarism and ghostwriting and to identify any complaints or investigations of faculty members dating back to 2004. The Universities included Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Duke, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, University of California at San Francisco, and University of Washington.
"Essentially, the companies are using the reputation of prestigious academic researchers and their institutions to promote the sale of drugs and devices," Grassley said in the letters.
"Articles published in medical journals are widely read by practitioners and are relied upon as being objective and scientific in nature," he wrote. "The information in these articles can have a significant impact on doctors' prescribing behavior and, in turn, on the American taxpayer, as the Medicare and Medicaid programs pay billions of dollars for prescription drugs and medical devices. "
"Any attempt to manipulate the scientific literature, which can in turn mislead doctors to prescribe treatments that may be ineffective and/or cause harm to their patients, is very troubling," Grassley said.
"Students are disciplined for not acknowledging that a paper they turned in was written by somebody else," Grassley said. "But what happens when researchers at the same university publish medical studies without acknowledging that they were written by somebody else?"
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