A career begins with a belief....

 

...in yourself and what your believe you are capable of, and in what you believe is important.  The trajectory of one's life influences one's professional choices and actions.

 

For me, experience with familial chronic illness taught me that medicine and its its medicaments can create cures or alleviate suffering, but often not before an array of confusing information is provided.

 

Understanding comes with great effort to the general public.   I have believed and still believe that information about pharmaceuticals must be honestly and appropriately delivered to patients and their families to help remove the fear that naturally comes from illness and a patient's frequent  lack of knowledge about their medical condition.

 

So after an early career in the laboratory, I restarted as a copywriter for pharmaceuticals. I believed then and believe now, that physicians first and patients next, need to know what treatments are available.  Then, patients need careful counseling about what they are asked to take, and what they should realistically expect from the pharmaceutical treatment.

 

Similarly, physicians need to have received full and honest disclosures of what a drug is capable of--and what damage a drug may do as they prepare to treat patients.  It is all a matter of balance--of risk vs. benefit.  Just like the rest of medicine.

 

This course in pharmaceutical ethics is important.  Why?  Because in it, as we look at  the history of the industry, its terrible mistakes and great victories,  we will address the current challenge:  How do we make drug therapy and the industry surrounding it, better?  How do we take the good that the drug industry is capable of and expand upon it?  How do we minimize the risks?  And perhaps most importantly,  how do we make valuble advances in science available and affordable for all?

 

155 years ago New York Medical College was founded on the principles of moral idealism, the advancement of the public good, and the moderation of medicinal dosage. This class is presented in that tradition.

Angela Rossetti

MS Bioethics, Albert Einstein School of Medicine/Cardozo Law School

MBA, Columbia Universtiy

BA Biology and English, University of Pennsylvania

 

Pharmaceutical Commercialization

Biotechnology

Rare Disease Marketing

Mass Market Pharmaceuticals

Ethical Pharmaceutical Management