Definition Of Pharmaceutical Industry Conflict Of Interests

College of Medicine Policy on Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Biotechnology Industry Conflict of Interest (1) Definitions. The following definitions apply to this regulation: (a) “COM” means the University of Florida, College of Medicine in Gainesville (the “COM-GNV”) and the University of Florida, College of Medicine in Jacksonville (the “COM- JAX”). (b) “COM personnel” means any employee or appointee of the University of Florida (whether full-time, part-time or courtesy), including but not limited to Academic Personnel (AP), Technical, Executive, Administrative and Managerial Support (TEAMS), University Support Personnel System (USPS), and Other Personnel Services (OPS) employees, who has a COM appointment. Academic Personnel are defined in University …show more content…
(c) “Industry” means the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology industries and their representatives. (d) “Industry-COM Conflict of Interest Committee” or “CIC” means the Industry Academic Relations Committee for COM personnel under the jurisdiction of the COM-GNV or the JAX Industry COM Conflict of Interest Committee for COM personnel under the jurisdiction of the COM-JAX. The compositions of the committees as well as the committee’s designees for any purposes set forth in this regulation are as set forth on the committees’ website at http://coi.med.ufl.edu/contact-us/industry-academic-relations-committee/ and http://www.hscj.ufl.edu/medicine/administrative-affairs/conflict-of-interest.asp.
2 (e) ‘Relative” means the spouse, domestic partner or fiancé of a COM personnel as well as the father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, grandfather, grandmother,