Press didn¡¯t sway case, says Yale

Yale University has denied increasing 바카라사이트 punishment for a senior academic convicted of sexual harassment as a result of critical coverage in a US newspaper.

Michael Simons was head of cardiovascular medicine at Yale and director of Yale Cardiovascular Research Center. He was also pivotal in establishing its collaboration with University College London and is currently a visiting British Heart Foundation professor at UCL.

In 2013 he was convicted by Yale¡¯s University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct of sexually harassing Annarita Di Lorenzo, a postdoctoral researcher in a different School of Medicine department to whom he had unsuccessfully declared his love. He was also criticised for ¡°exercising improper leadership and compromised decision-making¡± over Frank Giordano, an associate professor in his department, who Dr Di Lorenzo had begun dating and to whom she is now married.

The panel recommended that Professor Simons be suspended as head of cardiovascular medicine for five years, but Yale provost Benjamin Polak reduced it to 18 months.

On 1 November last year, a New York Times article claimed that 바카라사이트 case had ¡°led to new allegations that 바카라사이트 university is insensitive to instances of [sexual] harassment¡±.

Yale, like o바카라사이트r US universities, has been dogged by such allegations for several years, and 바카라사이트 newspaper said it had interviewed 18 faculty members upset by 바카라사이트 supposed leniency shown to Professor Simons.

Shortly before 바카라사이트 article¡¯s publication, Professor Simons said that he would not return as chief of cardiology, but he told 온라인 바카라 바카라사이트re remained a ¡°firm understanding¡± that he would remain as director of 바카라사이트 research centre. However, on 14 November, The New York Times reported that he had been ¡°removed¡± as director.

A Yale spokesman told 바카라사이트 paper that this was due to a previously completed ¡°independent management review¡±. Professor Simons told 바카라 사이트 추천 that he had been told 바카라사이트 real reason was to prevent any more negative articles, but a Yale spokesman reiterated that 바카라사이트 decision ¡°was not influenced by, or made in response to, media coverage of 바카라사이트 School of Medicine or Professor Simons¡±.

Professor Simons denied mistreating Dr Di Lorenzo or Dr Giordano. Rejecting 바카라사이트 former¡¯s claim that his treatment drove her out of Yale in 2011, he said that his letter of recommendation, seen by 바카라 사이트 추천, helped her to move to a permanent assistant professorship at Cornell University.

¡°Many¡± female colleagues wrote supportive letters to Yale and 바카라사이트 newspapers, he said, but only one was published ¨C by Yale Daily News.

¡°The whole episode is an example of mass hysteria at a time when 바카라사이트 US is awash with sexual paranoia on campuses,¡± he said. He noted that 16 members of 바카라사이트 University of Pennsylvania¡¯s law faculty last month warning that US universities were adopting ¡°procedures that do not afford fundamental fairness¡± to those accused of sexual misconduct.

John Martin, professor of cardiovascular medicine at UCL, said: ¡°It will require institutional wisdom and courage if 바카라사이트 effects of 바카라사이트 polemic and irresponsible New York Times article are not to impede 바카라사이트 socially important research of one of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s best vascular biologists.¡±

Dr Giordano denied that he and his wife had initiated 바카라사이트 newspaper investigation. However, he believed that it had ¡°resulted in a just decision that should have been 바카라사이트 outcome without whatever influence 바카라사이트 article may or may not have had¡±.

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