Dollars for Profs
Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest
Published Dec. 6, 2019
This database was last updated in December 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. There may be new or amended records not reflected here.
Conflict of Interest
Institutions must file significant disclosures to the National Institutes of Health if they determine financial relationships could affect the design, conduct or reporting of the NIH-funded research. The NIH provided us with their entire financial conflict of interest database, with filings from 2012 through 2019.
Should you be removed from our database? Contact us at [email protected]. Read more below.
Patrick Purdon
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department: Na
Should you be removed from our database? Contact us at [email protected]. Read more below.
Pascall Systems, Inc.
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Dr. Purdon is a co-founder of Pascall Systems, Inc. and he owns equity in the privately held company. The company is developing closed-loop physiological control technologies for anesthesia. Dr. Purdon is an inventor of an algorithm that is expected to be licensed to the company. The research grant studies the use of imaging markers of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and cardiovascular disease alongside computational analysis of intra-operative EEG, with the goal of using these measures to better understand variability in response to anesthesia and post-operative outcomes. The company could therefore have an interest in the results of the research. The institution 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.
The Aging Brain Under General Anesthesia: Neurophysiology, Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease, and Post-Operative Cognitive Outcomes
A high proportion of patients receiving anesthesia care are elderly, and are at a higher risk of post-operative delirium and cognitive dysfunction. This project aims to study the relationships between clinical neurophysiology, brain imaging biomarkers of aging, and post-operative outcomes, in order to improve brain monitoring, drug dosing, and anesthesia care for elderly patients and patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Filed on August 20, 2018.
Tell us what you know about Patrick Purdon's disclosure
We're still reporting about conflicts of interest. Is there something you'd like to tell us about this disclosure?
Patrick Purdon filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Purdon | Massachusetts General Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Pascall Systems, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
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.
Fewer than 10% of records from the University of Florida and fewer than 1% of records from the University of Texas system were removed because they did not contain enough information.
ProPublica obtained additional financial disclosures and conflict of interest forms that we have not yet digitized and added to the database. You can download those disclosures in the ProPublica Data Store.