AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
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Medical Industry/Big Pharma
See:
Heart disease
American Heart Association
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/corp_funding.html#universities
Supporters of the American College of Cardiology gain recognition through their
Industry Alliance Awards program.
Recipients of the 2002 ACCF Industry Alliance Awards include:
Diamond Heart Award ($750,000 and above)
- Pfizer
Platinum Heart Award ($500,000 - $749,999)
- AstraZeneca
- Merck
Gold Heart Award ($250,000 - $499,999)
- Aventis Pharmaceuticals
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company/Medical Imaging
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Silver Heart Award ($100,000 - $249,999)
- Boston Scientific Corporation
- Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership
- Genentech, Inc.
- Medtronic, Inc.
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
- Philips Medical Systems, Inc.
Bronze Heart Award ($10,000 - $99,999)
- Abbott Laboratories
- Acuson, A Siemens Company
- Amersham Health
- Biosound Esaote, Inc.
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Bracco Diagnostics Inc.
- Centocor, Inc.
- Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson company
- Datascope Corporation
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc.
- GE Medical Systems
- Guidant Corporation
- JOMED
- Kos Pharmaceuticals
- Mallinckrodt Inc.
- Monarch Pharmaceuticals
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.
- Pharmacia Corporation
- Scios Inc.
- Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.
- Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Specialty Laboratories
- St. Jude Medical, Inc.
- The Queen’s Medical Center, Heart Institute
- Thermo Cardiosystems, Inc.
- 3M Pharmaceuticals
- Wyeth
(http://www.acc.org/about/CorporateSupportCatalog2003.pdf;
accessed 2/24/03)
"Pfizer was the leading sponsor [at the 2001 meeting in Orlando, FL], forking
over $822,000 for the meeting." (WSJ, 6/15/01, B1)