Whistleblower

By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

David Kessler
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David Kessler
UCSF Chancellor and Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop receives a National Medal of Science and Technology award from President George W. Bush in 2005.
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UCSF Chancellor and Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop receives a National Medal of Science and Technology award from President George W. Bush in 2005.

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Her take is that the university isn't talking about the circumstances of her husband's dismissal for a reason: "They think that by stalling even now in being forthcoming that David will take another job somewhere and be out of their hair."

If so, David Kessler says, that could be a miscalculation: "I'm not going anywhere."

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