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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Inc.
Also Known As: PCRM
5100 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Ste. 400 Washington, DC 20016

GENERAL INFORMATION

Who We Are

Doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion.

• This organization is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity .
• This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
• Financial information in this report is derived from the organization's July 31, 2008 Form 990.
• Additional narrative information in this report was last supplied by the organization on February 26, 2009.
• It makes its audited financial statements available to the public upon request.
• Contributions are deductible, as provided by law.

How to Help

This organization is seeking funds from contributions and grants. These funds will be used for unrestricted operating expenses and special projects.

Location(s) Served

• National

NTEE Code

• D20—Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs)
• K40—Nutrition Programs

Chief Executive

Dr. Neal Barnard

Chief Executive Profile

Neal D. Barnard, M.D. is the president of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and editor-in-chief of "Good Medicine." He is an active clinical researcher and author or numerous scientific publications. Dr. Barnard also widely lectures on nutrition, health, and alternatives to animals in research and medical education.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MISSION AND PROGRAMS

Mission

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), founded in 1985, is headquartered in Washington, D.C. PCRM consists of approximately 5,000 physicians and 100,000 lay members. Activities of the organization include promoting humane education and urging alternatives to the use of animals in medical school curricula, sponsoring public education campaigns on nutrition, and conducting nutrition research.

Programs

PCRM promotes alternatives to the use of animals in medical education. Animals used in medical schools suffer terribly before being put to death. Our goal is to convince medical schools that the many available alternatives to the use of animals are not only more humane, but more efficient and cost-effective! Another PCRM program is advocacy of a plant-based diet as a means of disease prevention. Specifically, our Cancer Project aims to prevent cancer through distributing lifesaving information on reducing cancer risk and improving survival when cancer has been diagnosed. We also conduct state-of-the-art human clinical research on the power of nutrition for health. We also prevail upon medical charities that are not cruelty-free to stop using their funds to conduct needless, wasteful, inhumane tests on animals. And we regularly publish a Guide to Cruelty-Free Giving-including lists of medical charities that are cruelty-free and those that are not.

Additional Comments from the Organization

As of this writing, PCRM has helped to convince nearly three-quarters of the medical schools in the United States to stop using animals in their laboratories and classrooms. We've also helped to end controversial cat-shooting experiments conducted by the Army, drug experiments on animals sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, and many others. We were also instrumental in convincing a number of charities to no longer fund animal experimentation, such as the National Head Injury Foundation and the International Association of Firefighters Burn Foundation. We have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services for their roles in perpetuating unhealthy biases in federal diet guidelines. Our lawsuit points out that more than half the members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee have financial ties to the meat, egg, or dairy industries. We also publish articles in both the medical and lay press about the impact of diet on health and disease.

GOALS AND RESULTS

Accomplishments for Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2006

1. Due in large to PCRM's efforts, this year eight more medical schools have stopped using live animal labs to teach basic concepts in physiology, pharmacology, or surgery. Our alternatives to live animal labs campaign is working to ensure that all 126 medical schools in the United States teach updated, cruelty-free medicine to future doctors.
2. PCRM developed the world's first animal-serum-free insulin assay. The new test method has proven to be just as accurate as the serum obtained from bovine fetuses. The cruelty-free test kit is now offered as a preferred insulin assay and enough kits have been sold to test at least 10,000 human samples.
3. PCRM president Neal Barnard, MD completed a a study that found a plant-based diet to be three times more effective than the American Diabetes Association diet at controlling blood sugar. This National Institutes of Health funded study will be the basis for launching PCRM's program for reversing and preventing diabetes in the coming year.

Objectives for Fiscal Year Beginning January 1, 2007

1. Continue to reduce the number of medical schools using live animals in teaching laboratories, and medical centers using live animals in trauma training. Expand this program to include alternatives at all educational levels, including grade school.
2. Work with the government and chemical companies to eliminate unneccessary tests of toxic chemicals on animals, while pursuing a court challenge to do the same.
3. Continue to demonstrate the power of healthful vegetarian diets to tackle cholesterol and weight problems, and other serious conditions. Over the next two years, we will be submitting clinical phase results of our full-scale clinical trial on the role of diet in type 2 diabetes which ended in Spring 2004.

FINANCIAL DATA

Revenues and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending July 31, 2008

Balance Sheet: Fiscal Year Ending July 31, 2008

Note: The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot long survive, but the types of assets and liabilities also must be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.

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