UCSF Med School under fire from Sen. Grassley - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The June 17 story, by Jamees Oliphant ( ), said Grassley, the top Republicanj on the powerful Senate Finance has asked UCSF to supply documentss on federal funding over the lastfive years, includinv details of an external review by the KPMG accountin g firm. “If the financial integrity of UCSF is Grassley said in a letter tothe university, accordinyg to the L.A. “I am worried that similar problems regarding taxpayer dollarsw may also exist at other campuses withinb theUC system, such as UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Davis.” Grassley’sz comments come in during a continuing feud between UCSF and Davisd Kessler, former dean of its medical school, who earlier headedx the U.
S. Food and Drug Administration undertPresident Clinton, over allegations involving the medica l school’s financial reporting. The Times reporter that Kessler was fired inlate 2007, “aftee repeatedly complaining that he had been misle d about the school’s finances.” Kessler has filef a whistleblower lawsuit against the and is seeking to get his job along with lost pay, benefite and damages, the Times Grassley raised his concerns in an Apriol letter to UC President Mark Yudof, according to the UCSF was awarded $444 million last year from the Nationalp Institutes of Health, with $383 million going to the medical which is also seeking a big chunlk of federal stimulus University officials have said Kessler was firedc for performance-related reasons, Oliphant’s article notes, but they’res treating him as a whistleblower.
Kessler’a lawsuit has been stayeed pending the conclusion of anadministrative review, the Timezs report said. In a comment providedd Wednesday afternoon to the San FranciscoBusinessx Times, UC reiterated that it has provided information to Grassley’sa office on the financial issues in questionb and that Kessler’s allegations have been exhaustively and repeatedly investigatedd at the University’s expense. Thosee investigations “have found no evidence whatsoever of any inaccuracy in the bookes and records ofthe ,” UC said in its written UC officials also noted that a reviee released in March 2008 by the U.S.
Departmenf of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General found thatUCSF “had complied with all Federal regulations for claiming reimbursement for administrative and clerical expenses” connectefd to the NIH funding.