Professor resigns as a hero

I have written to President Sally Mason to resign from my position of medical director of nuclear medicine and tenured professor of radiology at the University of Iowa, effective Dec. 31.

I am resigning as a hero, having dared to protest against various forms of discrimination against foreign-born faculty at the University of Iowa. For that, I was intimidated and ultimately punished severely.

I have also tried to defend the rights and health of Iowa's children who were exposed to excessive radiation subjecting them to up to 4 percent risk of developing cancer or second cancer. All these efforts were in vain because of financial interests of several groups for whom profit is more important that children's health.

I also exposed Medicare fraud by some UI physicians and administrators and asked that that money be returned to U.S. taxpayers. I am afraid that nobody is going to follow-up on this despite meticulous documentation and involvement of two top-notch Medicare fraud attorneys.

You have the entire Iowa Department of Justice on your side; you will most likely win and I will lose. Best of luck to all decent faculty, employees and students at the University of Iowa.

Many Iowans were supportive of our family in the hard days we went through and many Iowans realized that I was subjected to injustice. Yet, they were unfortunately helpless. Many Iowans are also very friendly to “foreign-born Americans” and I will always teach my children to never generalize.

Dr. Malik Juweid

Professor

of Radiology

University of Iowa