The Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators (APPI) is a professional organization that has developed a complete curriculum in pharmaceutical medicine and provides annual meetings and courses.

History

APPI began as the medical section of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA). In 1993 PMA was reorganized as the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) to concentrate on advocacy. The medical section became the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians (AAPP), an independent professional organization of industry physicians. In 2005, AAPP entered into an affiliation with the Association of Clinical Research Professionals, an organization of individuals based at health research sites, with physician investigators who were members of ACRP becoming members of AAPP and the name of the organization being changed to APPI.

Function

The Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators (APPI) has developed a complete curriculum in pharmaceutical medicine and provides annual meetings and courses. In 2008, APPI joined the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), a partnership between the Food and Drug Administration and Duke University established the previous year to modernize clinical trials. One of the initiative’s goals was to increase clinical trials in the U.S. because the number of trials had fallen 30 percent since 2001. APPI is also known for its Code of Ethics for the Practice of Pharmaceutical Medicine. Physician investigators have a responsibility to “support the dissemination only of scientifically sound information from clinical trials and other investigations without regard to study outcomes, for the benefit of medicine and science.” APPI has held a seat as a medical specialty society in the American Medical Association

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 House of Delegates since 2002.

Board Members

• Peter Rheinstein
  Peter Rheinstein
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  , Immediate Past President
• Jonathan Seltzer, President
• Michael J. Koren, President-Elect
• Peter Stonier, Secretary-Treasurer
• Chris Allen
• Robert Dracker
• Thomas Littlejohn
• Joel S. Ross
• Grannum R. Sant
• Samuel Simha
• John D. Irvin