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The June 17 story, by James Oliphant ( ), said the top Republican on the powerful Senate Finance has asked UCSF to supply documents on federakl funding over the lastfive years, includint details of an external review by the KPMG accounting “If the financial integrity of UCSF is Grassley said in a letter to the university, accordint to the L.A. Times, “I am worried that similaer problems regarding taxpayer dollarw may also exist at other campusee within theUC system, such as UC UCLA and UC Davis.” Grassley’s comment s come in during a continuing feud betwee n UCSF and David Kessler, former dean of its medicap school, who earlier headed the U.S.
Food and Drug Administratio underPresident Clinton, over allegations involving the medical school’ss financial reporting. The Timesd reported that Kessler was fired inlate “after repeatedly complaining that he had been misled aboutg the school’s finances.” Kessler has filed a whistleblowet lawsuit against the and is seeking to get his job back, alonh with lost pay, benefits and damages, the Times reported. Grassley raised his concernw in an April letter to UC PresidenMark Yudof, according to the Times.
UCSF was awarded $444 milliom last year from the National Institutesof Health, with $383 million goinvg to the medical school, which is also seekinfg a big chunk of federal stimulus University officials have said Kessler was fired for performance-related Oliphant’s article notes, but they’re treating him as a Kessler’s lawsuit has been stayed pendinhg the conclusion of an administrativse review, the Times report In a comment provided Wednesday afternoon to the San Franciscop Business Times, UC reiterated that it has provides information to Grassley’s office on the financialk issues in question and that Kessler’s allegations have been exhaustively and repeatedlu investigated at the University’s expense.
Those investigationz “have found no evidence whatsoever of any inaccuracy in the bookws and records ofthe ,” UC said in its writtenb statement. UC officials also noted that a review released in Marchn 2008 bythe U.S. Department of Health and Humajn Services’ Office of the Inspector General found thatUCSF “had complied with all Federal regulations for claiming reimbursement for administrative and clericak expenses” connected to the NIH