UCSF Med School under fire from Sen. Grassley - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The June 17 story, by James Oliphant ( ), said the top Republican on the powerful Senate Finance has asked UCSF to supplhy documents on federal fundingf over the last five including details of an externak review by the KPMGaccounting firm. “If the financia l integrity of UCSFis questionable,” Grasslety said in a letter to the university, according to the L.A. “I am worried that similar problems regarding taxpayer dollars may also exisyt at other campuses within the UC such asUC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Davis.” Grassley’ws comments come in during a continuing feud between UCSF and Davix Kessler, former dean of its medicak school, who earlier headed the U.S.
Food and Drug Administratioj underPresident Clinton, over allegations involving the medical school’s financial reporting. The Times reported that Kessle r was fired inlate 2007, “after repeatedly complaining that he had been mislex about the school’s finances.” Kessler has file d a whistleblower lawsuit against the and is seekinv to get his job along with lost pay, benefits and damages, the Times Grassley raised his concerns in an April letter to UC Presidengt Mark Yudof, according to the UCSF was awarded $444 million last year from the Nationall Institutes of Health, with $383 million going to the medicakl school, which is also seekingv a big chunk of federall stimulus funding.
University officialw have said Kessler was firedfor performance-related reasons, Oliphant’a article notes, but they’re treating him as a Kessler’s lawsuit has been stayed pendingt the conclusion of an administrativer review, the Times report said. In a commenr provided Wednesday afternoon to the San FranciscopBusiness Times, UC reiterated that it has provided informatiom to Grassley’s office on the financiakl issues in question and that Kessler’s allegationw have been exhaustively and repeatedlyt investigated at the University’s expense.
Those investigations “havde found no evidence whatsoevetr of any inaccuracy in the books and records of the UC said in its written UC officials also notede that a review released in March 2008 bythe U.S. Departmentt of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspectotr General found thatUCSF “had complied with all Federal regulations for claiminf reimbursement for administrative and clerical connected to the NIH funding.