SPEAKER AND AUTHOR DISCLOSURES

It is the policy of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) that each speaker and author engaged in the presentation of CME programs, disclose any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any corporate organization whose products or services are being discussed in a presentation and/or with any commercial supporter of an activity.  Financial interest or relationships can include such things as grants or research support, employee member of a speaker’s bureau, consultant, major stockholder, etc.  Having a significant financial interest/arrangement of affiliation does not prevent faculty from making a presentation nor does it prevent an activity from being accredited.  However, the existence of the relationship must be made known to the audience prior to the presentation so that members of the audience may form their own judgments about the presentations.   Disclosure includes any relationship that may bias one’s presentation or which, if known, could give the perception of bias. These situations may include, but are not limited to:
 
1. stock options or bond holdings in a for-profit corporation or self-directed pension plan
2. research and/or educational grants
3. employment (full- or part-time)
4. ownership or partnership
5. consulting fees, royalties or other remuneration
6. non-remunerative positions of influence such as officer, board member, trustee, or public spokesperson
7. receipt of royalties
8. speakers bureau
9. other
 

To view or download the alphabetical list of invited session speakers and authors of abstracts who have disclosed one or more such relationships and names of companies with which those relationships exist, click the link below:

  Speaker and Author Disclosures