The American Medical Association on Wednesday announced members of a new task force that will develop ethical standards for all of the organization’s corporate relationships.
The task force was formed in response to the AMA’s disastrous marketing alliance with Sunbeam Corp., which has embroiled the Chicago medical group in a $20 million lawsuit.
Outside members of the new AMA task force are:
Daniel Callahan, founder and director of the Hastings Center for Bio-Ethics; Dr. Myles Cunningham, president of the American Cancer Society; Thomas Donaldson, a Wharton Business School ethicist and consultant; Robert Galvin, chairman of the executive committee at Motorola Inc.; Dr. Robert Graham, executive vice president of the American Academy of Family Physicians; Paul Oyer, an expert on corporations; Dr. Edward Pellegrino, a Georgetown University ethicist; Dr. Charles Sanders, board chairman for the Commonwealth Fund; and Dennis Thompson, director of a Harvard University program on ethics in the professions.
AMA task force members are:
Dr. Robert Tenery, chairman of the AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs; Dr. Richard Corlin, speaker of the AMA House of Delegates; Dr. Nancy Dickey, AMA president-elect; and Dr. Alfred Clementi, chairman of the AMA’s Council on Long Range Planning.
