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A Medtronic consultant failed to disclose that he was working for the medical device manufacturer, even while asking Congress for funding to research the company’s treatments for soldiers wounded in combat, according to an influential Republican senator.
Dr. David Polly of the University of Minnesota would later bill Medtronic Inc. $7,000 for his 2006 testimony before Congress, though he told lawmakers he was representing the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Polly was then awarded funding from the Department of Defense to conduct a study of Medtronic’s bone graft, called Infuse.
