United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
Hearings

Marketing or Medicine: Are Direct-to-Consumer Medical Device Ads Playing Doctor?

September 17, 2008


Statements of Committee Members

Witness Testimony

    Kevin Bozic, MD., Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA

    William Boden, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and
    George Diamond, M.D., F.A.C.C., Senior Research Scientist, Emeritus, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

    Ruth Day, Ph.D., Director, Medical Cognition Laboratory; Senior Fellow, Duke Aging Center, Durham, NC

    Ami Gadhia, Policy Counsel, Consumers Union, Washington, DC

    Daniel Schultz, Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC

    Stephen Ubl, President and Chief Executive Officer, AdvaMed, Washington, DC


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