Amid the evening din of customers ordering martinis and carving up steaks, a few doctors seated themselves at a table in the private dining room at Johnny Delmonico’s restaurant.
Wine, steak and a white tablecloth helped set the atmosphere for the guest speaker, Melissa Meredith, a physician and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Moonlighting for the drug company Amylin, Meredith was there to give a promotional talk about the diabetes drug Byetta.
Meredith was one of more than 40 UW physicians in 2007 who were paid to work as speakers or authors by drug or medical device companies, records show.