The Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant Program was created as part of a 2004 consumer protection settlement with Warner-Lambert (a division of Pfizer, Inc.) that resolved allegations of deceptive off-label marketing of the drug Neurontin. More than $9 million is being distributed to grant recipients from the program.

The FSMB Foundation is one of 24 first-round grant recipients. The FSMB Foundation has developed and implemented the Online Prescriber Education Network (OPEN), a Web-based portal that will provide educational programs to practicing physicians about pharmaceutical industry marketing techniques and their effect on prescribing practices. Other grant recipients are developing accredited educational modules that will be available through the OPEN portal to all licensed medical prescribers in the nation.

Attorney Generals Grant Advisory Board Members

Alfred V. Anderson, MD Minnesota Board of Medical Practice
Myra Christopher, Center for Practical Bioethics
J. Ramsay Farah, MD, MPH Maryland Board of Physicians
Curt D. Furberg, MD, PhD Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Doris Griffin, West Virginia Board of Medicine
Robert Lubran, MS, MPA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

FSMB Staff

Kelly C. Alfred, MS - Federation of State Medical Boards
Lisa Robin, Federation of State Medical Boards