TRENTON N.J.
The former top administrator of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Camden medical school gave passing grades to unqualified students, potentially endangering their innocent patients, according to a federal monitor’s report.
In the report released Monday, the federal monitor investigating the scandal-plagued university wrote that the probe confirmed allegations against Paul Mehne ranging from grade changing and violating school policy for student examinations to financial irregularities.
The 14-page report from former federal judge Herbert J. Stern states the grading improprieties “could cause untold damage to the lives of innocent individuals at the hands of under-trained or unprepared medical professionals.”
Mehne had been the associate dean for academic and student affairs at the University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School campus in Camden since 1995. He was suspended with pay in June and then retired at the end of the month.
A telephone message left Monday at Mehne’s home in Havertown, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, was not returned.
“Paul Mehne’s betrayal of the trust placed in him by the university, his colleagues and his students is unconscionable,” said UMDNJ spokeswoman Anna Farneski.
