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About Us

Members of the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians (AAPP) accept the fundamental responsibility to:

• Give first priority to the well being of participants in research studies and patients who use pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
• Ensure that potential risks to clinical study participants are minimized, that these risks are fully evaluated against potential benefits, and that potential risks and benefits are clearly communicated to study participants and their physicians.
• Apply sound ethical values and judgment in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical studies, and in the interpretation of results.
• Adhere to the principles of good clinical practice and research.
• Support the dissemination only of scientifically sound information from clinical trials and other investigations, without regard to study outcomes, for the benefit of medicine and science.
• Ensure that all industry-based, medically relevant product information is fair, balanced, accurate, comprehensive and easily accessible, in order that patients and physicians can make well-informed decisions about the use of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
• Strive to understand and respect differences in values across cultures and to appropriately adapt behaviors while maintaining ethical principles.
• Foster the education and professional competence of AAPP members, to enable them to uphold ethical principles in the practice of pharmaceutical medicine.
• Appropriately question, consult and advise each other regarding medical and ethical concerns, and to seek external opinions, as appropriate, in the best interests of patients and clinical study participants.

Section 1. MISSION. To enhance the proficiency of pharmaceutical physicians, the Academy shall promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge concerning the therapeutic action, investigation and development of medicines and diagnostics and the protection of the welfare of patients and study subjects.

Section 2. OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSE.

The purposes of the academy shall be to:

Foster the traditional role of the physician as a guardian of health by applying good science and medical judgment to meeting the needs of patients for pharmacotherapeutic uses;

Enhance relationships between pharmaceutical physicians and other members of the medical profession;

Work to enhance the image and professional recognition of pharmaceutical medicine (as defined in Section 12 of Article III) as a specialty;

Assist members in maintaining and enhancing skills and knowledge in pharmaceutical medicine (as defined in Section 12 of Article III);

Function as a nonprofit educational organization of physicians who are in pharmaceutical medicine; and

Provide a forum for the exchange of medical and scientific information pertaining to pharmaceutical medicine.