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

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The June 17 story, by Jamexs Oliphant ( ), said the top Republican on the powerfull SenateFinance Committee, has askes UCSF to supply documentw on federal funding over the last five years, includingt details of an externap review by the KPMG accountinf firm. “If the financiap integrity of UCSF is Grassley said in a letter tothe university, according to the L.A. Times, “Ik am worried that similar problemzs regarding taxpayer dollars may also exis t at other campuses within the UC such as UC UCLA andUC Grassley’s comments come in during a continuinhg feud between UCSF and David Kessler, formert dean of its medical who earlier headed the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration unde rPresident Clinton, over allegations involving the medical school’d financial reporting. The Times reported that Kesslefr was fired inlate 2007, “afted repeatedly complaining that he had been misled about the school’s Kessler has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the and is seekingg to get his job back, along with lost pay, benefits and damages, the Times Grassley raised his concerns in an April letter to UC Presidenft Mark Yudof, according to the Times.
UCSF was awardexd $444 million last year from the National Institutexsof Health, with $383 million going to the medicak school, which is also seeking a big chunj of federal stimulus funding. University officials have said Kessle was firedfor performance-related reasons, Oliphant’s articler notes, but they’re treating him as a Kessler’s lawsuit has been stayed pending the conclusion of an administrativew review, the Times report In a comment provided Wednesday afternoon to the San Francisco Business Times, UC reiteratee that it has provided information to Grassley’ws office on the financial issues in questionh and that Kessler’s allegations have been exhaustivelg and repeatedly investigated at the University’sd expense.
Those investigations “have foun no evidence whatsoever of any inaccuracy in the books and record s ofthe ,” UC said in its writtenb statement. UC officials also noted that a review released in March 2008 bythe U.S. Department of Health and Huma Services’ Office of the Inspector Generalo found thatUCSF “had complied with all Federal regulations for claiming reimbursementt for administrative and clerical connected to the NIH funding.