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Management Group 2010-11

Executive
Chair
Dr Philip Henschke (Geriatrician) Adelaide, Australia

Deputy Chair
Dr Juan Gérvas (General practice/public health) Buitrago del Lozoya, Spain

Treasurer
Dr Nicolas Rasmussen (Historian) Sydney, Australia

Secretary
Dr Jeffrey Lacasse (Social Work) Phoenix, USA

Director
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (General practice) Willunga, Australia


Other Management Group Members

Prof Joel Lexchin (Emergency Medicine and Health Policy) Toronto, Canada
Dr Merav Kliner (Public Health) Leeds, UK; Founder of PharmAware
Dr Vance Berger (Biostatistician) Maryland, USA

Management Group 2009

Executive
Chair and Treasurer
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Child psychiatry) Adelaide, Australia

Deputy Chair
Dr Philip Henschke (Geriatrician) Adelaide, Australia

Secretary
Dr Elaine Leung (General practice) Adelaide, Australia

Director
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (General practice) Willunga, Australia


Other Management Group Members

Dr Jeffrey Lacasse (Social Work) Phoenix, USA
Ms Joanna Ramos (Social Work and Health Policy) Seattle, USA
Prof Joel Lexchin (Emergency Medicine and Health Policy) Toronto, Canada
Dr Merav Kliner (Foundation Year Medical Officer) London, UK; Founder of PharmAware
Dr Mark McConnell (Internist) LaCrosse, USA

 

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Cases of wilful misrepresentation are a rarity in medical advertising. For every advertisement in which nonexistent doctors are called on to testify or deliberately irrelevant references are bunched up in [fine print], you will find a hundred or more whose greatest offenses are unquestioning enthusiasm and the skill to communicate it.

The best defence the physician can muster against this kind of advertising is a healthy skepticism and a willingness, not always apparent in the past, to do his homework. He must cultivate a flair for spotting the logical loophole, the invalid clinical trial, the unreliable or meaningless testimonial, the unneeded improvement and the unlikely claim. Above all, he must develop greater resistance to the lure of the fashionable and the new.
- Pierre R. Garai (advertising executive) 1963