Wed, PM: Dr. Max Eisenberg
November 8, 2004 6:24 pm by Gene BorioEisenberg, Max
US Fact Witness
Dr. Eisenberg was Executive Director of the Center for Indoor Air Research (”CIAR”) from its inception in 1988 until its apparent dissolution in 2000. As Executive Director, Dr. Eisenberg’s responsibilities included establishing the organization and the procedures under which it operated and overseeing its daily activities. Upon CIAR’s dissolution, Dr. Eisenberg formed and became the sole principal of the Research Management Group, LLC, a firm that manages Philip Morris’s External Research Program.
Dr. Eisenberg played a major role in defendants’ initiatives and misrepresentations concerning secondhand smoke, including, for example, research projects funded by defendants and defendants’ development of scientific witnesses used to analyze, critique and review passive smoking research and proposed smoking legislation. In addition, Dr. Eisenberg closely worked with industry lawyers regarding environmental tobacco smoke research, including approval of research, revision of results of such research, and whether to publish the results of such research.