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John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C.
John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., is a senior medical and research
adviser for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
(PCRM), a nationwide organization of physicians and laypersons
that promotes preventive medicine, especially good nutrition,
and addresses controversies in modern medicine, including ethical
and scientific issues in education and research.
Dr.
Pippin works to promote alternatives to the use of animals in medical
and drug research. In 2005, Dr. Pippin testified before the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and the Institute of Medicine on how
misleading animal experimental results contributed
to the approval of Vioxx and other dangerous drugs. He participated in a debate
regarding animal research in the U.K. House of Commons in November 2005.
Dr.
Pippin also works on PCRM’s campaigns to replace medical
school animal labs, to end the March of Dimes’ support of
animal research, and many other projects. He contributes research
and articles for Good Medicine and
serves as a media spokesperson for many of PCRM’s efforts.
After receiving
his M.D. from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dr.
Pippin completed his medical residency, chief residency, and clinical
cardiovascular fellowship at New England Deaconess Hospital in
Boston. He was awarded a five-year Clinician Scientist Award from
the American Heart Association in 1986, and carried out studies
in nuclear cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia.
Dr. Pippin
is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases,
and nuclear
cardiology. He has been on several medical school faculties, including
Harvard Medical School and the Medical College of Virginia, where
he was chosen Cardiology Professor of the Year three times. He
has held many clinical, research, and administrative
leadership positions, and was the director of cardiovascular medicine
and medical imaging at Cooper Clinic in Dallas before joining PCRM
in 2005. Dr. Pippin is the author or coauthor of more than 60 articles
and abstracts that have been published in leading medical journals.
He also has served as an invited speaker and panelist for the NIH
National Human Subjects Protection Workshop, the American College
of Cardiology, and the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
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