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 project at GUMC, whose mission is to advance evidence-based prescribing and educate healthcare professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices. Former medical officer at the NIH National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, editor of a continuing education publication on alternative therapies and women’s health and writer for the Reproductive Toxicology Center. Lead author on key articles on physician-industry relationships; expert witness in litigation regarding pharmaceutical and medical device marketing practices. Former chair of the National Women’s Health Network. Joined off our backs in 1981. 

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, October 2023