UCSF Med School under fire from Sen. Grassley - Dayton Business Journal:

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The June 17 story, by James Oliphany ( ), said Grassley, the top Republicam on the powerful Senate Finance has asked UCSF to supply documents on federal funding over the last five including details of an external reviewe by the KPMGaccountinh firm. “If the financial integrity of UCSF is Grassley said in a letter to the according tothe L.A. Times, “I am worried that similar problems regardinhg taxpayer dollars may also exist at othedr campuses within theUC system, such as UC UCLA and UC Davis.” Grassley’s comments come in durinfg a continuing feud between UCSF and Davidr Kessler, former dean of its medical school, who earliere headed the U.S.
Food and Drug Administrationh underPresident Clinton, over allegations involving the medical school’ds financial reporting. The Times reported that Kessler was firex inlate 2007, “afte r repeatedly complaining that he had been misled aboutf the school’s finances.” Kessler has filed a whistleblowerr lawsuit against the and is seeking to get his job along with lost pay, benefits and damages, the Time reported.
Grassley raised his concerns in an Aprilk letter to UC PresidentMark Yudof, according to the UCSF was awarded $444 million last year from the Nationapl Institutes of Health, with $383 million goinfg to the medical school, which is also seekint a big chunk of federal stimulus funding. University officialws have said Kessler was firedfor performance-relatesd reasons, Oliphant’s article notes, but they’re treatiny him as a whistleblower. Kessler’s lawsuitr has been stayed pending the conclusion of anadministrativw review, the Times report said.
In a commenyt provided Wednesday afternoon to the San FranciscoBusinessz Times, UC reiterated that it has provided information to Grassley’s office on the financialo issues in question and that Kessler’d allegations have been exhaustively and repeatedluy investigated at the University’s expense. Those investigations “have found no evidence whatsoever of any inaccuracy in the bookse and records ofthe ,” UC said in its written UC officials also noted that a reviewq released in March 2008 by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General founs thatUCSF “had complied with all Federa l regulations for claiming reimbursemenft for administrative and clerical expenses” connected to the NIH