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| A | Amendment: If an initial disclosure for a company/entity changes at any time, you can log on to eOPC to add, update, or delete information. You can do so by accessing the ‘Create Amendments’ tab on your eOPC Personal Disclosure Folder workspace. Please refer to the Submitting an Amendment User Guide for more assistance. | |
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| C | Company: A for-profit or not-for-profit organization that relates or may relate to your Johns Hopkins professional activity. Examples include a pharmaceutical company for which you consult, an institution other than Johns Hopkins where you teach a course, or a company that sponsors your research and in which you own stock. Serving on the board your local swim club, for example, should not be disclosed. The purpose of making this disclosure is to comply with institutional policies on conflict of interest and conflict of commitment. | |
| D | Days per Year: Outside activities are measured in days out of 365. Therefore, we ask you to estimate the time you spend on outside activity in days. Your estimate should include travel time and round hours up to nearest number of days. | |
| Department Reviewer: A general term used by eOPC that refers to your department director or division chief, whose role is to ensure that your outside activities do not interfere with your primary commitment to the University. Department reviewers can access reports of the disclosures of faculty members they supervise at any time. | ||
Disclosure: Under the School of Medicine’s policies on conflict of interest and commitment, you are required to disclose all outside services and outside interests with any actual or potential relationship to your professional activities at Johns Hopkins. The eOPC disclosure system is your means for disclosure. | ||
| Disclosure Language (as relates to Mangement Plan): A statement, specified by the CCOI and/or the IRB, describing your relationship with the entity of interest. | ||
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| Domestic Partner: a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you co-habitate and share a long-term relationship. Financial interests of one's domestic partner must be reported as though they were one's own. | ||
| E | Entity: A for-profit or not-for-profit organization to which you provide services that relate to your Johns Hopkins professional activity. Examples include a pharmaceutical company for which you consult, an institution other than Johns Hopkins where you teach a course, or a company that sponsors your research and in which you own stock. Serving on the board of your local swim club, for example, should not be disclosed. | |
| Equity: The ownership interest of shareholders in a for-profit corporation, partnership, or similar organization. Examples include stock, stock options, and warrants. | ||
| F | Fee: A fixed sum, paid in cash, e.g., a license fee or consulting fee. Per JHU SOM Policy, fees are considered income. Can also be referred to as honorarium. | |
| Fiduciary Obligation: A duty of loyalty, e.g., to maximize shareholders’ value in a for-profit corporation. | ||
| G | Gifts: Any tangible and intangible items you receive from a company/entity as compensation for your services. For example, holidays, concert/theater tickets, golf club memberships, and wine tastings. | |
| H | Honorarium: A payment for services, generally referring to payment for a scholarly or academic lecture or activity. Per JHU SOM Policy, honoraria are considered income. | |
| I | Income: The amount of money received during a period of time in exchange for labor or services, from the sale of goods or property, or as a profit from financial investments. | |
| Influence (of Purchasing Decisions): The ability you may have to direct or influence purchases made by the University or Health System or one of their constituent entities. Specifically, you must disclose relationships with organizations from which Johns Hopkins purchases goods or services and whose value exceeds $100,000 per year. Purchases of drugs and pharmaceuticals should NOT be disclosed. | ||
| Inventors/Invention: If you are an inventor of patentable technology or copyrightable software and the invention or software is license to a third party, you must submit a disclosure. (This applies whether or not you have applied for patent or copyright protection.) Disclosure is required whether license payments (or potential payments) are received by JHU and distributed to your received by you from another source, or received directly by you. | ||
| Investment Advice: If you advise investment companies or their clients, you must not provide information or data that are proprietary to Johns Hopkins or its research sponsors. You also should be aware of applicable Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules on insider trading. | ||
| J | JHU Ref No. (of Invention): The four digit number that Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer assigns to inventions reported to that office. | |
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| M | Management Plan: These are the conditions under which your arrangement has been approved by the Dean. Your management plan is stored under the ‘My Management Plans’ tab on your eOPC Personal Disclosure Folder webpage. In order be in compliance, you must log on to eOPC and accept your management plan and adhere to the conditions provided. | |
| Minor Dependents: A minor child, spouse, domestic partner, parent, or certain other relative to whom one contributes all or a major amount of necessary financial support. Financial interests of one's dependents must be reported as though they were one's own. | ||
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| O | Outside Interest: These are financial and/or fiduciary interests in outside entities. Examples include income from outside services, the ownership of equity in an outside entity, Board of Directors service, etc. | |
| Outside Services: Any private activities in which you participate not related to your JHU employment duties. | ||
| P | Personal Financial Interest: These are fees, equity, royalty or potential royalty that are not derived from services provided by you or technology invented by you. For example, a direct purchase by you of pharmaceutical or medical device company stock constitutes a personal financial interest. | |
| Private Agreement: A personal agreement or contract between you and an outside entity. While Johns Hopkins is not a party to such agreements, your services under the agreement may not conflict with the policies to which you are subject as a member of the faculty or staff. Examples of private agreements include consulting, confidentiality and scientific advisory board agreements. A private agreement may not involve JHU or JHHS, their facilities, funds, personnel, name, marks, or logos, etc. Johns Hopkins representatives do not sign the agreements and the institutions have no obligations or liabilities in connection with the agreements. | ||
| Purchasing Decisions: See Influence (of Purchasing Decisions). | ||
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| R | Related: If an outside service or interest is or could be perceived as affecting or being affected by your research or other Johns Hopkins activity, it is considered to be related and will require review by the Committee on Outside Interests. Examples include a research sponsor in which you own stock, an equipment vendor for whom your spouse works, or a consulting client whose product you are testing in a clinical trial. | |
Relationship: This is an umbrella term used by the OPC and Committee on Outside Interests to denote your outside services and outside interests that are relevant to a given outside entity. | ||
| Remuneration: Payment or compensation received for services or employment. | ||
| Research: Any organized program of scientific inquiry. Conducting research includes designing research, directing or serving as an investigator, performing laboratory experiments, having a role in soliciting consent from research subjects or making decisions related to eligibility of patients to participate in research, analyzing or reporting research data, or submitting manuscripts or abstracts concerning the research for publication. | ||
| Royalty: A payment to an owner for the rights to use intellectual property, especially patented or copyrighted works. This usually refers to a percentage of income from sales of the licensed product. For example, a pharmaceutical company may pay a percentage of the income from sales of a drug to the inventor of a compound that is the basis for the drug. A book publisher may compensate the authors of a work by paying them royalties on sales of the book. | ||
| S | Spouse: A marriage partner; a husband or wife. Financial interests of one's spouse must be reported as though they were one's own. | |
| Stock: See Equity. | ||
| Stock Options: See Equity. | ||
| T | Tech Transfer: The licensing or provision of inventions and other intellectual property to companies or organizations that can develop and distribute them for the benefit of patients or society. | |
| Term: The duration of your contract for your services. | ||
| Title (of Invention): The name assigned by the Johns Hopkins University Technology Transfer office to an invention reported to that office. | ||
| Travel Expenses: Any monetary reimbursement you receive for traveling to or on behalf of a company/entity, including hotel accommodation, car rental, and per diems for food. | ||
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