Anne Landman's Collection
List of Potential Candidates for LSRO Panel
Abstract
In 2001 Philip Morris contracted with Life Sciences Research Office in Bethesda, Maryland (a purported independent research organization) to do a study to evaluate "the health effects and relative risk of selected ingredients added to cigarettes" [from LSRO's Web site, http://www.lsro.org/air/frames_air_plan.html, 24 Jan 1005]. According to LSRO, PM would provide funding for the study, and LSRO would be responsible for assembling panels of experts. LSRO's "Overall Plan" for the project states, "In order to preserve the third party independence of the review, after the agreement has been executed, PM will have no further role in the design, conduct, deliberations, or the conclusions of the panels."
In 2004, LSRO announced the composition of the expert panel. It consisted of the following individuals:
Alwynelle Ahl, Ph.D., D.V.M., USDA (ret.) Carroll E. Cross, M.D. Shayne Cox Gad, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., F.A.T.S. Donald E. Gardner, Ph.D., F.A.T.S. Louis D. Homer, M.D., Ph.D. Rudolph Jaeger, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., B.C.F.M. Robert Orth, Ph.D. Emanuel Rubin M.D. James L. Schardein, M.S., F.A.T.S. Thomas Joseph Slaga, Ph.D. [http://www.lsro.org/air/frames_air_panel.html'content_air_panel_links.html] A review of the panel members shows that a substantial number of them have previous ties to the tobacco industry (which are not listed in their bios on LSRO's web site), either having worked as consultants for major tobacco firms, applied for and/or been recipients of grants from the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR), been affiliated with PM front groups like The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC, see previous posting at http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/158433.html) or the industry's Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR, which was forced to disband under the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement).
This brief 2001 internal PM email shows that PM did indeed have input into the makeup of LSRO's panel, and screened them for candidates they felt were "biased against the industry."
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Attached please find a list of people LSRO is talking to for the SAB [Scientific Advisory Board]. They are now evaluating potential conflicts of interest on each of these individuals. Let me know if you have any specific concerns about any of the candidates. I need documentation to provide LSRO if we feel an individual is not qualified or is biased against the industry.
- Company
- Philip Morris
- Author
- Carmines, Edward L. Ph.D. (PM Chemist, Principal Scientist, Deals with additives)
- Recipient
- Carchman, Richard Allan, Ph.D. (PM Scientific Affairs, Research & Development VP)Philip Morris Director and worked in Scientific Affairs. Reported to Cathy ellis.
- Patskan, George (Sr. Research Scientist, PM USA, Richmond, VA)
Participated in BESSE-Biological Effects of Sidestream Smoke Exposure- Podraza, Kenneth F. Dr. (Manager of PM's Product Testing Lab.)
Dir. of Product Integrity, Nov. 2000. Richmond, VA- Reininghaus, Wolf (INBIFO, Gen. Mgr., Contract Research)
Institut fur Biologische Forschung, Cologne, Germany - (Philip Morris' offshore research lab).- Solana, Richard P., Ph.D., D.V.M. (PM Product Integrity Director)
1995 USA - Patskan, George (Sr. Research Scientist, PM USA, Richmond, VA)
- Region
- United States
- Litigation
- Mile/Produced
- Operation/Project
- Review of Added Ingredients in Cigarettes (2001)
- Named Organization
- Life Sciences Research OfficeNonprofit organization that provides information, analsysis and advice to policy makers
- LSRO Panel
- SAB, Scientific Advisory Board
- LSRO Panel
- Type
- EMAI, E-MAIL
- Subject
- additives
- industry sponsored research
- industry strategy
- industry sponsored research
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