A Miami pediatrician has pleaded guilty to falsifying clinical trial data for an asthma medication for children and defrauding a pharmaceutical company that commissioned the research.
Shocking falsification of data in a clinical trial case from the US.
Villaman-Bencosme, whose state medical license was issued in 1993 and shows she has staff privileges at Miami Children’s Hospital, faces between five and seven years at her sentencing on a wire fraud conspiracy charge in March before U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom. The physician also must pay a forfeiture judgment of $174,000, according to her plea agreement with the Justice Department.
