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International - Misconduct Cases
Medical Discipline Committee Takes Actions against Poisson
Volume 5, No. 2, March 1997
In 1993, ORI found Dr. Roger Poisson, a researcher
at St. Luc Hospital, Montreal, to have committed scientific misconduct
by fabricating and falsifying patient data he submitted to the National
Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) multicenter clinical
studies on breast and bowel cancer.
As a result of ORI's investigation,
Dr. Poisson was debarred for eight years from the receipt of any
Federal funding. In a follow up to this matter on November 7, 1996,
Dr. Poisson appeared before the Discipline Committee of the Quebec
College of Doctors and pled guilty to 13 counts of committing "acts
derogatory to the honor and dignity of the medical profession" by his submission of the falsified information to the NSABP. It
was recommended that Dr. Poisson be reprimanded, fined, and be permanently
restricted from certain activities, including serving as a principal
investigator in medical research.
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