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Office of the Chief Medical Officer

he Johnson & Johnson Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO) is a global, functionally independent group responsible for leading safety and championing bioethical principles across Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Consumer Health sectors. Johnson & Johnson’s OCMO is constantly reviewing, monitoring and making decisions regarding the safety of our products through people-driven processes, initiatives and policies that are reinforced by a single medical safety standard, to which all our products are held.

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Scientific Excellence, Bioethics and Values-Driven Decision-Making

Scientific Excellence, Bioethics and Values-Driven Decision-Making

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Expanding Access to Our Investigational Medications

Expanding Access to Our Investigational Medications

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Engaging with Patients & Consumers as Partners

Engaging with Patients & Consumers as Partners

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Making Healthcare Decisions Through a Bioethical Lens

Making Healthcare Decisions Through a Bioethical Lens

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Innovating to Advance Health Outcomes for Patients & Consumers

Innovating to Advance Health Outcomes for Patients & Consumers

Our Ethics- and Science-Driven Healthcare Initiatives

OCMO Safety

Safety Assessment of Johnson & Johnson Products

Safety Assessment of Johnson & Johnson Products

Within Johnson & Johnson’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer, safety assessment that is objective and science- and evidence-based is at the core of what we do and is built into every stage of our products’ life cycles—from development to post-launch. But just how do we do it?

The Power of Real-World Data to Enhance Safety

The Power of Real-World Data to Enhance Safety

The Power of Real-World Data to Enhance Safety

The Johnson & Johnson Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO) believes in the collective power of real-world observational data to complement clinical trial findings, and in sharing our insights widely to accelerate important research and policy developments and improve health outcomes for people everywhere.

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The Yale Open Data Access Project

The Yale Open Data Access Project

Sharing of clinical trial data is critical to the advancement of the science that is the foundation of medicine and public health. It furthers our understanding of diseases, expands the base of knowledge needed to develop new treatments and generates new insights and more complete evidence to enable better healthcare decisions for patients.

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Decisions Guided Through a Bioethical Lens

Decisions Guided Through a Bioethical Lens

Bioethics is an applied discipline that takes the principles of ethics and applies them to biological research, science and medicine. Adherence to bioethical principles, including transparency, integrity and respect for the rights and welfare of all persons, stems from Our Credo values and the commitment we make to our patients and consumers.

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Compassionate Use

Compassionate Use

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CHILD: A Commitment to Children and Parents

CHILD: A Commitment to Children and Parents

Our commitment to the safety and well-being of children has been a cornerstone of Johnson & Johnson's work for over 130 years, and we are committed to continue improving medical innovation for children.

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Every day, we work to put people first—from proactive and transparent medical safety surveillance, to groundbreaking real-world evidence applications, pediatric clinical research advancements, early access innovation and more.

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Why Johnson & Johnson Is on a Mission to Make Treating Pediatric Patients Safer

Why Johnson & Johnson Is on a Mission to Make Treating Pediatric Patients Safer

For Baby Safety Month, we sat down with the company's Head of Pediatric Drug Development to learn about its industry-leading Child Health Innovation Leadership Department.

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Preclinical Science: Driving Excellence in Safety at Johnson & Johnson

Preclinical Science: Driving Excellence in Safety at Johnson & Johnson

A Q&A with Gary Eichenbaum, Ph.D., Vice President, Preclinical Science and Safety, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Johnson & Johnson.

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How Johnson & Johnson Is Helping Patients Through Its Compassionate Use Program

How Johnson & Johnson Is Helping Patients Through Its Compassionate Use Program

The company's mission is to care for the world—one person at a time. Just ask Chief Medical Officer Joanne Waldstreicher, M.D., who's been leading the charge to improve the process by which very sick patients may apply for access to investigational medications.

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Johnson & Johnson Chief Medical Officers

Our Chief Medical Officers drive medical safety excellence and innovation across our Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices and Consumer Products sectors.

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Aran Maree, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Pharmaceuticals

Jijo James, M.D. — Jijo James, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Medical Devices

Ed Kuffner, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Consumer

In the News

News and highlights about the Office of the Chief Medical Officer.

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Bioethics

How the Industry Is Addressing the Ethical Concerns of Incorporating Big Data into Health Care

How the Industry Is Addressing the Ethical Concerns of Incorporating Big Data into Health Care

Clinical Trials

Overview and Experience of the YODA Project With Clinical Trial Data Sharing After 5 Years

Overview and Experience of the YODA Project With Clinical Trial Data Sharing After 5 Years

Innovation

How Women at Johnson & Johnson Are Changing Healthcare As We Know It

How Women at Johnson & Johnson Are Changing Healthcare As We Know It

Compassionate Use

Johnson & Johnson Expands Access to Investigational Medications Through Its CompAC Program

Johnson & Johnson Expands Access to Investigational Medications Through Its CompAC Program

Innovation

The Yale Open Data Access Project: How Johnson & Johnson Is Leading the Way on Clinical Data Transparency

The Yale Open Data Access Project: How Johnson & Johnson Is Leading the Way on Clinical Data Transparency

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Bioethics

New York Times: Company Creates Bioethics Panel on Trial Drugs

New York Times: Company Creates Bioethics Panel on Trial Drugs

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Scientific Policies

Johnson & Johnson is committed to ethical decision-making and transparency to guide every decision we make. Read more for our scientific policies on sensitive topics.

Position on Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research

June 11, 2020

These guidelines are to ensure that human pluripotent stem cell research conducted by Johnson & Johnson conforms to current international standards of scientific and ethical oversight, and that all scientists and employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies adhere to these ethical principles when conducting human pluripotent stem cell research.

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Ethical Code for the Conduct of Research and Development

June 11, 2020

Our Ethical Code for the Conduct of Research and Development is intended to complement our Credo by providing more specific standards of conduct and behavior for physicians, clinical research scientists and others who are responsible for medical aspects of research and development.

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Position on Clinical Trial Data Transparency

June 11, 2020

We believe transparency of clinical trial data advances science and medicine and is in the best interest of the patients who use our pharmaceutical products and providers who prescribe them.

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Position on Compassionate Use & Pre-Approval Access

June 11, 2020

We follow five important principles when providing pre-approval access to investigational medicines to patients with serious diseases to access medicines not yet approved by regulatory health authorities.

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