Thomas J. Moore

Thomas J. Moore is a fellow at the Center for Health Policy Research at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services specializing in issues involving the safety of prescription drugs. He currently maintains thomasjmoore.com and drugsafetyresearch.com to spread information about drug safety and drug adverse event reports. His most recent book is Prescription for Disaster: the Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet, an examination of the risks of prescription drugs and the performance of the safety system intended to control those risks. His previous book, Deadly Medicine: Why Tens of Thousands of Heart Patients Died in America's Worst Drug Disaster, was a case study exploring why a family of drugs for irregular heartbeats was so widely used without researchers and regulators realizing the drugs frequently caused cardiac arrest. He also wrote two other books about the medical care system: Lifespan (Simon & Schuster, 1992) and Heart Failure (Random House, 1989). He has testified before Congress and lectured at universities and other research institutions about drug safety and other issues involving the medical care system. His writing has also appeared in the Atlantic, and numerous other magazines and in more than 40 newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Before turning to full time research and writing on health policy issues in 1988, Moore was a national correspondent in Washington for the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain. He also has worked on the staff of the U.S. Senate.