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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/61516
LOCATION:UQAM - Pavillon Paul-Gérin-Lajoie (N)\, 1205\, rue Saint-Denis\, 
 N-3785\, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H2X 3R9
SUMMARY:Key Opinion Leaders: Valuing Independence and Conflict of Interest 
 in the Medical Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Dans le cadre des conférences du CIRST\,  Sergio Sismondo\, pr
 ofesseur au département de philosophie à Queen's University\, présenter
 a une conférence intitulée\, «Key Opinion Leaders: Valuing Independence
  and Conflict of Interest in the Medical Sciences».  Résumé : “Key Op
 inion Leaders”\, or more normally “KOLs”\, are academic physicians u
 sed by pharmaceutical companies to influence other physicians. According t
 o former sales representative Kimberly Elliott\, “There are a lot of phy
 sicians who don’t believe what we as drug representatives say. If we hav
 e a KOL stand in front of them and say the same thing\, they believe it”
 . A network of KOLs forms an “armamentarium of expertise” external to 
 the company\, or an “activation network” for a particular product\, in
  the words of two drug company medical science liaison experts.  KOLs need
  to retain their independence to be effective\, and probably to maintain s
 elf-esteem. Nonetheless\, their disclosures of conflict of interest displa
 y their connections in stunning detail\, and suggest their lack of indepen
 dence. How is it that the culture of medical science has developed to enco
 urage academic physicians to serve as spokespeople for the pharmaceutical 
 industry? How do rewards circulate to maintain this system? How is the kno
 wledge KOLs transmit respected? In short\, how does influence and conflict
  of interest function within the relevant moral economies of medical scien
 ce and the pharmaceutical industry?
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