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Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Angelo Volandes

Brown University, Department: Public Health & Prev Medicine

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Nous Foundation

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Other : Spousal interest

Dr. Volandes is co‐founder and President of the Nous Foundation. He does not receive any direct compensation from the foundation but his spouse is the (b)(6) of the foundation and receives a salary of (b)(4)/year. The Nous Foundation’s mission is to improve communication and empower patients and families through the use of video decision support tools. The foundation has intellectual property rights to the videos being used in this research project. The results of this research could promote interest in the videos and services provided by the foundation. The Co‐Chairs of Partners HealthCare Committee on Outside Activities evaluated the financial interest in connection with this research and determined that, based on the close connection between the company's interests and the research, the financial interest could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the research.

Listed Research Project
PROVEN: PRagmatic trial Of Video Education in Nursing homes

NHs serve the most frail and vulnerable patients. Interventions to deliver more patient-focused, cost-effective care in this setting are needed. Better advanced care planning offers an opportunity to improve NH care. Video decision support is a practical and innovative approach to uniformly provide advanced care planning. This work has the potential to improve the care provided to millions of older Americans in NHs and enable future pragmatic trials in this setting.

Filed on December 17, 2014.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Angelo Volandes Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest ACP Decisions Nous $150,000 - $199,999
Angelo Volandes Massachusetts General Hospital Conflict of Interest ACP Decisions Nous $150,000 - $199,999
Angelo Volandes Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged Conflict of Interest Nous Foundation, Inc. $150,000 - $199,999
Angelo Volandes Massachusetts General Hospital Conflict of Interest ACP Decisions Nous $40,000 - $59,999
Angelo Volandes Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest ACP Decisions Nous $40,000 - $59,999
Angelo Volandes Massachusetts General Hospital Conflict of Interest Nous Foundation, Inc. $20,000 - $39,999
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Notes: When a more specific filing date is not available for an individual financial disclosure or conflict of interest form, we use the year the form was filed. If the year was not disclosed, we report the range of years covered by our public records requests. In a few cases, a start date was provided instead of a filing date. In those cases, we use the start date instead.

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