Faculty Disclosures 2019
It is the policy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency and scientific rigor in all CME activities it provides. All faculty and planners participating in the planning or implementation of an ISMMS provided activity must disclose to the audience any relevant financial relationships and assist in resolving any conflict of interest that may arise from the relationship. Presenters must also make a meaningful disclosure to the audience of their discussions of unlabeled or unapproved drugs or devices.
Please find below the compiled information we have received on disclosure of relevant financial relationships from activity faculty and planners:
*Planning Committee
**Indicates the intention to reference unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or products in his presentation.
+Peer Reviewer
| Donald Abrams, MD | has served as a consultant/advisor for Axim Biotech, ABcann (now VEVO), Insys, Intec, Maui Wellness Group, Scriptyx, and Tikun Olam. He has also received honoraria for lectures at Spectrum and owns stock in Axim Biotech.
Intends to reference unlabeled/unapproved/experimental and/or investigational (not FDA-approved) uses of drugs or products in his presentation: Cannabis is not approved as medicine. |
| Mary Beth Augustine, RDN, CDN, FAND | is a Vibrant America employee.
Intends to reference unlabeled/unapproved/experimental and/or investigational (not FDA-approved) uses of drugs or products in my presentation: Explanation of different laboratory developed tests(LDTs), laboratory accreditations, and FDA guidelines and enforcements for LDTs. |
| Josh Axe, DNM, DC, CNS | is the Chief Visionary Officer and Owner of Ancient Nutrition. |
| David Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN, IFMCP | is an officer/director at Diagnostic Solutions Lab, LLC, an organization of which he also has ownership. |
| Adam Breiner, ND | Intends to reference unlabeled/unapproved/experimental and/or investigational (not FDA-approved) uses of drugs or products in his presentation: Insulin |
| Carey Clark, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RYT | Intends to reference unlabeled/unapproved/experimental and/or investigational (not FDA-approved) uses of drugs or products in his presentation: Cannabis is not approved as medicine. |
| Geovanni Espinosa, ND, L.Ac, IFMCP, CNS | has ownership of the company XY Wellness, LLC. |
| Steven Feyrer-Melk, PhD, M.Ed | serves as an officer/director for Nudge, a company of which he also owns stock. |
| James Greenblatt, MD | has received consulting fees for service provided to Pure Encapsulations, Jay Mac Pharmaceuticals, and Green Plains Laboratory. |
| Ronald Hoffman, MD, CNS, FACAM
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is the host of Intelligent Medicine (various sponsors), and has financial relationships to disclose with Nutreance Inc. (product endorsement) and Fullscript dispenser (online nutritional supplements. |
| Mark Hyman, MD | owns stocks in the non-publicly traded company Vitamin Portfolio. |
| Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, CCN | is the CEO of Perque Integrative Health and the Lab Director/Owner of ELISA/ACT Biotechnologies, LLC. He has ownership and stocks over both companies. |
| Ashley Koff, RD | has ownership of the company The Better Nutrition Program, LLC. |
| Valter Longo, PhD | is the Founder of the company L’Nutra, Inc. |
| Belleruth Naparstek, ACSW | is an officer/director for Health Journeys, Inc., a company at which she has received salaries/director fees and also has ownership.
Intends to reference unlabeled/unapproved/experimental and/or investigational (not FDA-approved) uses of drugs or products in her presentation: Health Journeys audio meditations. |
| Nancy O’Hara, MD, MPH, FAAP | has received compensation for her services on the advisory board of Designs for Health.
Intends to reference unlabeled/unapproved/experimental and/or investigational (not FDA-approved) uses of drugs or products in her presentation: CBD and/or HDCs. |
| Peter Osborne, DC, DACBN, PScD | has ownership of the website www.GlutenFreeSociety.org. |
| Kenneth Pelletier, PhD, MD | has served as an advisor and researcher for Thorne Research as well as Mayo Clinic. He has been an independently contracted author for Simon & Schuster. He owns stock options at two non-publicly traded companies, Thorne Research and American Specialty Health. |
| *David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM | has served as a consultant/advisor for Garden of Life. |
| Robert Rountree, MD** | has served as the Chief Medical Advisor of Thorne and a Scientific Advisory Board member for Balchem/Albion. He has received consulting fees, honoraria for lectures/papers/teaching, and compensation for service on the advisory board from both companies.
Intends to reference unlabeled/unapproved/experimental and/or investigational (not FDA-approved) uses of drugs or products in his presentation: Rapamycin, dietary supplements (there are no approved drugs/supplements for aging) |
| Michael Ruscio, DC | has received honoraria for lectures/papers/teaching from both Douglas Laboratories and Designs for Health. He has ownership of the Ruscio Institute. |
| Aristo Vojdani, PhD, MSc, CLS | has served as a consultant/advisor for Cyrex Labs, LLC. He has ownership of Immunosciences Lab, Inc. |
| Wendy Warner, MD, FACOG, ABIHM, IFMCP | has served as a consultant/advisor for Gaia Herbs. |
| Jack Wolfson, DO, FACC | has served as a consultant/advisor for Vibrant America. He has also received honoraria for lectures/papers/teaching from Vibrant America. |
The following have reported that they do not have any financial relationships to disclose:
| Barbara Bartlik, MD
Jeffrey Bland, PhD, FACN, FACB, CNS Mark Breiner, DDS, FAGD, FIAOMT Dane Donohue, DC Joel Evans, MD Karen Fink, BSN, RN, HNB-BC, LMT, CLL David Fogel, MD |
Nancy Gahles, DC, CCH, RSHom(NA), OIM
Lorraine Gahles-Kildow, PhD Isadora Guggenheim, ND, FNP *+Woodson Merrell, MD Janet Mindes, PhD Lyn Patrick, ND Marcelle Pick, NP, OB/GYN Lorilee Schoenbeck, ND |
Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD, FRCP, MaACR
Rob Silverman, DC, DACBN, DCBCN, MS, CCN, CNS, CSCS, CIISN, CKTP, CES, HKC, FAKTR Kathie Swift, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND Gail Van Kanegan, DNP, FNP-BC, APHN-BC, EEM-AP John Weeks |