THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D.
“It doesn’t take that many people to make a change, whether it’s a good change or a bad change and it’s really important for people to be activists.”
Author, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology; and Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). Director of PharmedOut, a GUMC project, whose mission is to advance evidence-based prescribing and educate healthcare professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices. Medical officer at the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development; and the Reproductive Toxicology Center. Lead author on key articles on physician-industry relationships; expert witness in litigation regarding pharmaceutical and medical device marketing practices; and former chair of the National Women’s Health Network. Joined off our backs in 1981. Planned Parenthood.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, October 2023