you're right, I misremembered -- it's full professorship. which is almost worse! it's not "independent" money keeping him in a job! (also Prasad is apparently director of CBER now? Christ.)
Yeah, Bhattacharaya is understandable. For many years he resembled a boring, fairly typical soft money med school prof. It's easy to see how he was promoted (I've served on a large med school A&P committee).
UCSF Spi/Biostat's decision to recruit Prasad is vastly harder to understand.
I am an OHSU prof. I admired Vinay's early work and was disappointed to see him leave. But he became a monster during Covid, although now seems to be trying to recapture his earlier days.
Agree his early days were okay, but I don’t think he’s trying to recapture that. He’s trying to capitulate to RFK & Trump to boost his own power while lording it over others, like how in COVID he was pandering to far-right audiences to gain a sense of power. IMO, all of it is absolutely disgusting
Ya, his Covid statements were really a huge alarm going off that he was veering very far from established science. At that point his work should have really been addressing his opinions and actions.
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UCSF Spi/Biostat's decision to recruit Prasad is vastly harder to understand.
Of course, I am an OHSU alum, so would argue that Prasad's recruitment improved *both* OHSU and UCSF Epi/Biostat.
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