Glossary
Outside Activity/Conflict of Interest/Acceptance of Gifts Disclosure
Approving Authority
- Faculty - Department Chair and, as required by the Dean/Director, to the Dean/Director
- Faculty Member without a Dept. Chair - Dean or Director
- Department Chair - Dean
- Executive Committee Member - Officer to whom he or she is accountable.
- President - Chair of the Board of Directors
- Any employee not mentioned above - The Director (or middle management equivalent) unless the Executive Committee member to which the employee's unit is accountable designates someone else.
Business - (verb, e.g., to do business): Any patient care, research, teaching, or similar OHSU activities; purchasing of goods and/or services for the provision of OHSU activities; contracting or attempting to contract for the provision of goods and/or services to be used in OHSU activities.
Entity - Any corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, firm, franchise, association, organization, holding company, joint stock company, receivership, business or real estate trust, or any other legal entity organized for profit or charitable purposes, but excluding OHSU, any affiliated hospital, any private medical practice, or any other entity controlled by, controlling, or under common control with OHSU.
Executive Position - Any position which includes responsibilities for a material segment of the operation or management of a business. This would include a position on a Board of Directors.
Exempt Outside Activity - Pro-bono professional activities by any employee or faculty member; outside employment or service as an independent contractor by a full time or part time classified employee; participation in an approved practice plan (a faculty practice plan approved by the President or adopted by OHSUMG); joint or dual appointments with OHSU and the VAMC (with prior approval by Department Chair); unpaid (other than expense reimbursements and modest honoraria) service for or on governmental or not-for-profit entities, committees, or professional associations; consultations with governmental agencies or not-for-profit organizations so long as such activities do not interfere with the employee’s duties to OHSU.
Financial Interest - Any equity interest (e.g. stocks, stock options, warrants, contractual rights to acquire or receive ownership interests other than interests in a diversified mutual fund); compensation (anything of monetary value); or intellectual property rights.
Intellectual Property - Intellectual property includes any invention or improvement in technology, whether patentable or not, conceived or developed using the expertise for which an employee is employed by OHSU, OHSU facilities, personnel, information, or other resources; educational professional or tangible materials, whether or not registered for copyright or trademark, that result from the instructional, research, or public service activities of OHSU; and data developed using OHSU facilities, personnel, or other resources or resulting from the instructional, research, or public service activities of OHSU.
Outside Activity - Any activity engaged in by an OHSU employee but not in the employee’s job description and not reimbursed by OHSU.
Pre-approved Outside Activity - Receipt of royalties for published scholarly work developed using minimal OHSU resources, and receipt of royalties or other income authorized under OHSU policy 04-50-001; occasional lectures or seminars with receipt of modest honoraria and expense reimbursement.
Related Outside Activity - Any Outside Activity (OA) that requires the employee to use the academic, professional, or institutional expertise for which he/she is employed by OHSU; an OA conducted at OHSU owned or controlled premises or that uses OHSU facilities or support; or an activity that interferes with the employee’s duties to OHSU, including but not limited to his/her time commitments.
Relative - Defined in ORS 244.020(16) to include a spouse and any children, brothers, sisters, or parents of the person disclosing or of the discloser's spouse.
Teach – Includes activities in which you are providing significant teaching for an organized course offered in the curriculum of another institution. Do not include occasional seminars or lectures with receipt of no more than modest honoraria and expense reimbursement.
