Where's the Representation?

I found this message board as a result of a Google search, and I'm happy to have an opportunity to vent my frustrations.

This year, the AATS is currently being held in Boston (November 16th & 17th). My Chief pointed out to me today that once again, Photofrin isn't a sponsor here. Even with the unfathomable rise in revenue from the dramatic increase in price of Photofrin, it's evident by their lack of attendance at this important conference that Pinnacle Biologics isn't interested in helping to foster the future innovation of the thoracic community, nor the health of patients we serve. However, what is important for Pinnacle is what we can do for them; never having an interest in reciprocation. We've had enough of this organization and your antiquated treatment modality.

I will personally be notifying each of the Program Directors and Program Committee members regarding this organization’s clear disinterest and apathy of supporting our science.

AATS Representative, on the behalf of:

Raphael Bueno, MD, FACS
Associate Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School

Traves D. Crabtree, MD
Assistant Professor
Washington University School Of Medicine

Thomas D'Amico, MD
Professor and Vice Chairman of Surgery
Chief, Section of General Thoracic Surgery
Program Director, Thoracic Surgery
Duke University Medical Center

Todd L. Demmy, MD, FACS
Clinical Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery Professor of Oncology
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Surgery
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
State University of New York at Buffalo

Hiran C. Fernando, MD, FACS
Director, Center for Minimally Invasive Esophageal Surgery
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgery Center for Thoracic Oncology
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA

Bruce E. Johnson, MD
Director, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

David R. Jones, MD
Professor of Surgery and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Vice- Chair of Clinical Affiars and Quality
Division Chief, Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
University of Virginia

Shaf Keshavjee, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Surgeon-in-Chief
James Wallace McCutcheon Chair in Surgery
Director, Toronto Lung Transplant Program
Program Medical Director Surgical Services and Critical Care UHN
Director, Latner Thoracic Research Laboratories
Scientist, McEwen Center for Regenerative Medicine
Professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery & Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
University of Toronto

James D. Luketich, MD
Professory of Cardiothoracic Surgery
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Robert J. McKenna, Jr., MD
Co-Direct and Surgical Director
Women's Guild Lung Institute
Program Director, General Thoracic Surgery Fellowship
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Bryan Meyers, MD, MPH
Patrick and Joy Williamson Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chief, Section of Thoracic Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine

Keith Naunheim, MD
Professor
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Director, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
St. Louis University Cancer Center

Mark Onaitis, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Duke Cancer Institute

G. Alec Patterson, MD
Evarts A. Graham Professor, Surgery
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine

Joe B. Putnam, Jr., MD
Ingram Professor of Cancer Research
Professor and Chairman, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Program Director, Thoracic Surgery
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

David J. Sugarbaker, MD
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Scott J. Swanson, MD, FACS
Chief Surgical Officer, Disease Center Leader, Surgical Oncology, Professor of Surgery
Brigham & Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Garrett L. Walsh, MD
Professor of Surgery
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Douglas E. Wood, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery
Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research
University of Washington

Cameron Wright, MD
Professor of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital

Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD, PhD
Director, Interventional Thoracic Surgery Program
Toronto General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Toronto

 

Photofrin is still around?!?!
Didn't this product loose all market share to Barrx and CryoSpray ablation?
Now that Cryo is treating in the lung with their new machine isn't that "checkmate" for Photofrin? I would think so.

Or is the VP of Sales and the CEO still holding the the sales team responsible to promote off-label in the cholangiocarcinoma market? That would make sense considering it's the only market they potentially have a shot selling any product.

The only guy I know still doing it is Ross from OSU, but I think he's on this company's payroll in some [bullshit] function. I think his title is: VP of Kickback Collection

 

It's time to direct the FDA to this board and the Pinnacle Biologics address. Time to put an end to the "pharma malpractice."

 

Sales Team?? You mean to tell me there is still a sales team in place? I figured they all would be gone by now enjoying greener pasteurs or green pasteurs minus the WEEDS.

 

http://members.aats.org/industry_ExhibitorList.cgi

 

Why wouldn't they be at this Lung Cancer meeting? It's probably the most important conference of the year! Look at the list of physicians that this person listed! Probably the most highly respected and influential Thoracic Surgeons in the World (notice Ross' name isn't listed?)!

I wonder whose blunder this was? Actually no, I don't wonder, because I already know! BH ... Probably nearing the last mistake he makes with this organization. I wonder who will be unlucky enough to hire him next?