{"id":114153,"date":"2021-01-29T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114153"},"modified":"2021-01-31T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:12:41","slug":"medical-professor-warned-colleagues-that-schools-racial-preferences-were-illegal-and-he-was-removed-from-directorship-now-hes-suing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medical-professor-warned-colleagues-that-schools-racial-preferences-were-illegal-and-he-was-removed-from-directorship-now-hes-suing\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Professor Warned Colleagues That School\u2019s Racial Preferences Were Illegal And He Was Removed From Directorship. Now He\u2019s Suing."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedical-professor-warned-colleagues-that-schools-racial-preferences-were-illegal-and-he-was-removed-from-directorship-now-hes-suing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Last Summer, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine professor Norman Wang warned his colleagues that the school\u2019s racial and ethnic admissions policies were illegal and published a white paper arguing such preferences hurt the very students they aim to help.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, UPMC removed Wang as director of the school\u2019s fellowship program in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, The College Fix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/pitt-retaliated-against-medical-professor-for-warning-its-race-preferences-were-illegal-lawsuit\/\">reported<\/a>. The school also \u201cbarred him from interacting with medical students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On July 31, 2020, Wang met with the chief of Pitt\u2019s cardiology division, Samir Saba, and professor Kathryn Berlacher. In that meeting, Wang told them that the way they handle racial and ethnic admissions was likely illegal. A few days later, a white paper written by Wang was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The paper argued that affirmative action policies hurt black and Hispanic students that were supposed to be helped by the policies. He also argued affirmative action hurt \u201cthe medical academy\u201d as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Saba and Berlacher criticized the article, and UPMC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/JAHA.119.014602\">sent<\/a> JAHA\u2019s editor-in-chief a letter claiming \u201cthe article contains many misconceptions and misquotes and that together those inaccuracies, misstatements, and selective misreading of source materials void the paper of its scientific validity.\u201d JAHA decided to retract the article based on the information provided by UPMC.<\/p>\n<p>As the Fix reported, Wang was removed from his directorship shortly after the meeting and the paper\u2019s retraction. \u201cSaba, Berlarcher, Department of Medicine Chair Mark Gladwin and unknown others \u2018resolved and agreed to impose adverse employment consequences\u2019 against him,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wang filed a lawsuit against UPMC, JAHA, and others, arguing his First Amendment rights were violated when he was retaliated against. The Center for Individual Rights President Terry Pell told the Fix in an email that many of the university officials who took action against Wang were \u201cunder the color of state authority and thereby subject to the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In one email, Gladwin, a white man, claimed Wang\u2019s paper and warnings \u201cthreaten to undermine recruitment and retention of our most qualified trainees, and undermine the confidence and morale of our faculty.\u201d He added that patients were \u201cmore likely to agree to life-saving interventions\u201d if their doctors looked like them.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Wang\u2019s lawsuit, the Department of Education also opened an investigation into UPMC over the professor\u2019s punishments. As the Fix reported, the Department of Education warned \u201cthe university that it was tacitly admitting to practicing \u2018systemic discrimination based on race\u2019 in violation of the Civil Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began in October but may face challenges under the Biden administration, which has vowed to undo much of what the Trump administration accomplished. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/fire-letter-to-the-university-of-pittsburgh-january-12-2021\/\">a letter<\/a> to the University of Pittsburgh earlier this month warning the school that it had violated \u201cits obligation to uphold the First Amendment rights of its professors,\u201d and adding that the school should rescind Wang\u2019s \u201cpunishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Summer, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine professor Norman Wang warned his colleagues that the school\u2019s racial and ethnic admissions policies were illegal and published a white paper arguing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892284,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4272,4268,4269,3735,3693,4271],"class_list":["post-114153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colleagues","tag-medical","tag-professor","tag-schools","tag-that","tag-warned"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}