Prior to joining Georgetown, Fugh-Berman worked as a medical officer at the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, and with the Reproductive Toxicology Center.
Fugh-Berman appeared on Netflix documentary "The Bleeding Edge", which highlights the dangers for patients of rushed technological changes in the medical devices field.
[2] Fugh-Berman has published numerous studies [3] regarding the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry, off-label promotion, ghostwritten articles, and invented diseases.
She also worked at the Reproductive Toxicology Center, a non-profit, and played a role in editing an award-winning newsletter emphasized on Women's Health Education.
[4] Georgetown University Medical Center professor, Fugh-Berman, served as a paid expert witness in the lawsuit filed in 2017 by the State of Oklahoma against 13 major pharmaceutical companies for "damages linked to the opioid crisis.
[5] According to a March 26, 2019 PBS News article, Fugh-Berman who works out of the University's Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, said that over time, "industry-generated narrative [became] conventional wisdom".