The University of Virginia is protecting the CEO of its health system and its medical school dean in the wake of a extremely public call for their elimination.
At least 128 members of the University of Virginia professors who are utilized both by the medical school and the UVA Physicians Group composed to the UVA Board of Visitors and its peer-elected professors leaders, expressing no self-confidence in K. Craig Kent, MD, CEO of UVA Health and executive vice president for health affairs, and Melina Kibbe, MD, dean of the medical school and chief health affairs officer.
Kibbe, a vascular cosmeticsurgeon and scientist, is likewise the editor in chief of JAMA Surgery.
“We call for the instant elimination of Craig Kent and Melina Kibbe,” composed the doctors.
The letter declared that client security was jeopardized since medicalprofessionals, nurses, and other personnel were pressured to abstain from reporting security issues and that doctors hadactually been employed “despite issues relatingto stability and quality.” Those who raised security issues dealtwith “explicit and implicit dangers and retaliation,” consistingof hold-ups and rejections of promo and period, stated the letter.
The September 5 letter did not consistof signatures. The authors stated that names were being secured, however that they would share the names with a restricted audience.
UVA President Jim Ryan took problem with the concept that the signees were confidential. He stated in his own letter to medical school professors that some of the allegations were about matters that had currently been attendedto or that were being worked on. As far as accusations that he was not formerly conscious of, “we will do our finest to examine,” he stated.
The professors who signed the letter “have besmirched the trackrecords of not simply Melina and Craig,” composed Ryan. “They have unjustly — and I trust unknowingly — cast a shadow over the excellent