"One has to wonder what the people at UM are thinking?" he said. "Or if they're thinking at all?"
Nardo's letter is related to the latest scandal, in the seemingly never-ending Charles Nemeroff saga, which now involves the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, who apparently worked behind the scenes to help Nemeroff get hired at the University of Miami, after he was kicked off the chair of psychiatry thrown at Emory, according to a June 6, 2010, article by Paul Basken in the "Chronicle of Higher Education."
Bernard Carroll, who was Nemeroff's boss for over 6 years while Nemeroff was a professor at Duke, says Nemeroff probably called in some markers. Because back in 1994, Nemeroff found Insel a position at Emory when Insel was facing nonrenewal of a research job at NIMH. And, in addition to being Insel's boss at Emory, Nemeroff also lobbied for Insel's appointment as NIMH director, and soon after Insel moved to the NIMH, he appointed Nemeroff as an advisor, Carroll says.
In a November 5, 2009, press release, UM announced Nemeroff's hiring and described him as "one of the world's leading experts in the field of psychiatry."
Although not a peep was said about his fall from grace or the problems Nemeroff caused at Emory, the release stated: "He moved to Emory in 1991 as chairman of psychiatry. There he took an average department to become one of the top ten in the country."
On January 4, 2010, Ed Silverman posted a Pharmalot blog under the title, "Charles Nemeroff and the House That Glaxo Built," with a link to a December 30, 2009, headline for a story by BlockShopper, in South Florida, that read: "Psychiatrist spends $1.91M on Miami 6BD."
"Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff and Gayle Nemeroff bought a six-bedroom, seven-bath home at 1780 Espanola Dr. in Miami from David and Carolyn Shulevitz for $1.91 million on Dec. 4, " BlockShopper reported.
In addition to pointing out that Nemeroff had taken a new job at UM, Silverman wrote, "the new home appears big enough to house plenty of consulting materials."
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