Guidelines and Forms
The Research Institute COI policies regarding disclosures have not changed, so you are being asked to reveal any "financial interests which may compromise or have the appearance of compromising an investigator's professional judgment in conducting or reporting research". You must disclose your relevant financial interests as well as those of your spouse, your domestic partner or your dependent children.
Our policy does not provide for a threshold below which you are not required to disclose financial interests. Instead, we ask that all financial interests that could be related to your research at CPMC/CPMCRI be disclosed; our experience has been that most disclosed financial interests are not an issue. Please know that the potentially sensitive information you give us will remain as confidential as regulations allow, COI committee members and staff sign a confidentiality agreements to further protect disclosure. We will discuss any disclosures with you before they can be released beyond the COI Committee, the IRB or research participants. The COI Committee includes both laboratory and clinical researchers.
Financial interests that do not have to be disclosed are:
1. The investigator's salary from Sutter Health, CPMC or CPMC Research Institute;
2. Income from the clinical practice of medicine;
3. Investments in mutual funds, tax-deferred annuities, or pension funds;
4. Income from seminars, lectures, or teaching engagements sponsored by public (e.g., NIH, University of California) or nonprofit entities (e.g. National Cancer Society); or
5. Income from services on advisory committees or review panels for public or nonprofit entities.
Financial interests that should be disclosed include:
1. Membership on a governing board or scientific advisory board;
2. Payment (honoraria) for consulting, speeches, seminars or other presentations;
3. Payment for any trips or travel;
4. Employment with the company; and
5. Stock or stock options.
Understanding and dealing with financial conflicts of interest is an important part of research compliance, so it is essential that you return the COI disclosure to us by April 3, 2006. We have included a self-addressed envelope for your convenience.
We are asking all Research Institute and Medical Center investigators, IRB members and alternates, senior research administrators, and COI committee members, as well as anyone who disclosed a financial interest last year to return these forms.
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