Philip Fisher

Dr. Philip Fisher is Professor of Psychology. Dr. Fisher's research focuses on translational neuroscience, specifically in the area of childhood trauma and maltreatment, and foster and adopted children. Dr. Phil Fisher's SFIs are threefold: 1) his ownership interest in Treatment Foster Care Consultants, Inc.; 2) Dr. Fisher has received compensation above the threshold for independent consulting for OSLC Community Programs (OCP), a non-profit which provides evidence-based child and family treatment and consulting services to individuals, agencies, and government entities. OCP is not a research organization; and 3) Dr. Fisher has also received compensation above the threshold as a Research Investigator for Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC). OSLC is a non-profit (501c3), collaborative, multidisciplinary research center dedicated to increasing the scientific understanding processes related to healthy development and family functioning and applying that understanding to the design and evaluation of interventions.

The sponsored project, Grant 215290, is an NIH-sponsored grant to evaluate a new, low-cost, manualized, group-based intervention for foster preschoolers and their caregivers. The intervention is an adaptation of an evidence-based program developed at our research center, Keeping Foster and Kinship Parents Supported and Trained (KEEP). Although this research project is related to TFC’s work with foster families and published results may provide a general benefit to the continued development of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care programs (both at TFC and its competitors) through increased publicity, there is no evidence of a direct or significant financial connection between this grant and TFC. However, since this project subcontracts to OSLC, which is the same organization that paid Dr. Fisher to provide consulting services, an appearance of a conflict of interest is present which could be perceived to bias Dr. Fisher's research.