Inside Higher Ed, July 10, 2009
UTMB's Dr. Avi Markowitz is quoted in this article about conflicts of interest in biomedical research. Speaking about a case at Harvard Medical School-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital where a psychiatrist received $1.6 million from companies that produced the drugs he used to treat children for bipolar disorders, Markowitz said, "Frankly the stuff at Harvard, I don't know how that stuff can happen and people not know. The way to deal with that is not to say that [doctors] can't [work at all with industry]. The appropriate response is, who was supervising them and didn't catch it? Or did, but didn't do something about it?"