Tracy Ting the Terrible CPO

Hotline to Otsuka? Here you go:

Below I've pasted the website to send anonymous info directly to Avanir's parent company in San Francisco, Otsuka America Inc., but you MUST choose carefully when picking "organization". In the "Enter Organization Name" field be sure to choose "Otsuka America Inc.". DO NOT CHOOSE "AVANIR" (that just routes back to Avanir Compliance). Also, DO NOT CHOOSE "OTSUKA AMERICA PHARMACEUTICAL, INC.", as that routes to Princeton/Kabir. So choose "Otsuka America, Inc." in the Org. Name field, click "Submit", and then choose "Otsuka America, Inc." again from the giant list that pops up. This is automatically routed to Toshiro-san, head of OAI in San Francisco, Avanir's parent company. It is also auto-routed to the VP of Internal Audit at OAI who's in charge of investigating such stuff. Importantly, IT IS NOT ROUTED TO AVANIR, or to Wa'el's boss in Princeton, Kabir, or to Princeton in general - it goes immediately above them. It bypasses Avanir entirely. This is anonymous as long as you don't do it from Avanir or on your Avanir laptop

Website address: https://secure.ethicspoint.com

**REMEMBER** - Under "Enter Organization Name" you MUST put Otsuka America, Inc., NOT Avanir, and then choose "Otsuka America Inc." from the search list that comes up. Please only submit serious issues of concern on through this mechanism. Don't use it as another version of CafePharma just to complain about people. The OAI folks have enough to do just investigating actual issues. Still, some of the stuff mentioned above would be of interest to OAI. We all assume that the higher-ups in SFO and Japan know every little thing that goes on here, but I can tell you from experience that that's not the case, and they appreciate it when people up and down the org chart help them with their oversight responsibilities, so if you have stuff to tell them, do it. You don't have to give your name if you don't want to.