More dismissals in U leadership as tensions rise over 'secret' Fairview deal
University of Minnesota administrators have fired more leaders of the doctors group that negotiated a new clinical partnership agreement with Fairview Health Services, escalating tensions with doctors who teach U medical students and treat patients at M Health Fairview hospitals and clinics.
The U removed William Sibert, chief financial officer for University of Minnesota Physicians (UMP), from his parallel role as Medical School CFO, according to Dr. Demetris Yannopoulos, a professor of medicine at the Medical School who is in touch with UMP leadership. The University of Minnesota Foundation also ended its contract with Lathrop GPM, the law firm employing UMP’s external counsel, Jennifer Bishop, he said.
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Sources familiar with the dismissals of Sibert, Beilman and Bishop’s law firm characterized the maneuver as retaliatory, reflecting growing dissonance between UMP leaders and the university’s central administration, including President Dr. Rebecca Cunningham, who appointed Beilman to his vice president role earlier this year.
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I admit, I don’t understand this new agreement but to fire as “retaliatory?” Trumpism comes to the U?