Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Having an interest in an organization does not prevent a presenter from making a presentation. Still, the audience must be informed of this relationship before the start of the activity, and any potential conflict must be resolved.
All planners, faculty, and content specialists participating in this education activity must disclose to the audience any of the following:
• Relationship with companies who manufacture products or provide services used in the treatment of the subjects under discussion in the educational activity.
• Relationship between the planner, faculty or content specialist and commercial supporter(s) of the activity.
• Intent to discuss unlabeled uses of a commercial product, or an investigational use of a product not yet approved for this purpose. All information disclosed must be shared with the audience either on the program handouts, advertising and/or audiovisual presentation.
Financial Relationships - those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, gift, speaking fee, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options, or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial relationships can also include "contracted research," where the institution gets the grant and manages the funds, and the individual is the principal or named investigator on the grant.
Program Planners/Instructional personnel have a relevant financial relationship if that relationship could influence the information presented in the course and could be perceived as a conflict of interest by learners.