Earlier this year, Harvard's Partners Healthcare put a cap on payments its physicians can receive for serving on corporate boards at $5,000 a day…

Because of these committees, most universities know the extent of their employees' involvement in industry relationships, said Marianne Hockema, MA, an administrator in the Office of Conflict of Interest Review at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

MedPage Today, by Kristina Fiore, 3/13/2010

Tags: Business Relations, Conflict of interest, Marianne Hockema