UCSF Dean Fired

[jackbauer]

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Does anyone have an inside scoop on what motivated the dean's firing? Newspaper articles have been less than sufficient. I'm interested to know about the whistle-blowing aspect.
Cheers.

 

[bubbachuck]

from wikipedia (sources cited on page):

"He left the FDA to join the Yale School of Medicine as Dean from 1997–2003. In 2003 he was recruited to a $540,000 post as Dean and Vice-Chancellor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School.[1][4] Kessler began complaining in 2005 over the difference between the annual infusion of $46.4 million to the dean's office he thought he had been promised and the $28.8 it was actually receiving, a discrepancy he traced back to 2002 and attributed to inadequate financial controls. J. Michael Bishop, Chancellor of UCSF, acknowledged that the financial data presented to him during his recruitment might have been misleading but UC audits found no evidence of financial irrecularities an, in June 2007, Bishop demanded Kessler's resignation. On December, 13, 2007, Kessler was formally dismissed.[5][6]"

It looks like the whistle blowing was referring to Kessler noticing the discrepancy b/w the amount of funding the Dean's office was receiving. There's probably more to this story. It is interesting.

 

[Doctor&Geek]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic.../15/MNKETUEL3.DTL&hw=ucsf+dean&sn=001&sc=1000
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/15/MNL5TV3C7.DTL&hw=ucsf+dean&sn=003&sc=540

More stuff from SF Chronicle should be upcoming.

Also see the comments section from the first article.

 

[Doctor&Geek]

More here:
http://the-hospitalist.org/blogs/wa...e-termination-of-ucsf-dean-david-kessler.aspx
http://the-hospitalist.org/blogs/wa...2/18/the-ucsf-kessler-saga-and-the-press.aspx