Dive Brief:

• A 5-year-old sexual harassment case at the Yale School of Medicine has come to light, raising questions about how the school has handled the issue.
• A university committee had recommended that the school’s head of cardiology, Dr. Michael Simons, be removed from his position, but was overruled by the provost, who reduced the punishment to an 18-month suspension, the New York Times reported.
• Faculty members were angered by the handling of the case, which they say is indicative of a larger problem, and then the school announced that Simons decided not to return to his position.

Dive Insight:

Among faculty complaints is that the school never required a public acknowledgement of wrongdoing. The University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct ruled last year that Simons had sexually harassed Dr. Annarita Di Lorenzo, now at Cornell University, and publicly derided her husband, Dr. Frank Giordano, at Yale, exercising improper leadership with him. The committee said Dr. Simons should be removed as chief of cardiology and banned for five years from any high administrative position.