Dollars for Profs

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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Robert Sapien

University of New Mexico Health Scis Ctr, Department: Radiation Diagnostic/oncology

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

It's Mental, LLC

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)

Dr. Sapien has a private hypnotherapy practice, It's Mental, LLC. This study involves hypnotherapy as a treatment for urinary incontinence.

Listed Research Project
Brain-Centered Therapy versus Medication for Urgency Urinary Incontinence_An RCT

The proposed research is relevant to public health because it offers the potential of finding a durable and effective treatment for urgency incontinence, a costly and burgeoning public health problem which will increase over time. The positive impact of this work, relevant to the NIH mission, is that it defines a useful & safe mind/body intervention, hypnotherapy, to improve health of women affected by urgency incontinence, increases evidence-based knowledge of hypnotherapy's durability & efficacy in urgency incontinence treatment, and utilizes a translational research tool (functional magnetic resonance brain imaging) to build a biological foundation for study of hypnotherapy and other mind/body therapies.

Filed on July 02, 2015.

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