Prof who said doctors should be judged on merit, not race 'no longer' holds same job

A professor at the University of Pittsburgh has been removed from his position directing a fellowship program associated with the school's hospital system amid backlash to a white paper he authored critiquing affirmative action policies in the medical field.

UPitt Associate Professor of Medicine Norman Wang was removed from his position as Program Director of the Electrophysiology Fellowship, according to at least two academics. As of Wednesday, his biography on the School of Medicine’s website no longer shows the title. A Google cached preview version of his bio shows that the page previously listed him as "Director,

Pennsylvania State University College of Nursing Assistant ProfessorJocelyn Anderson, whose faculty bio states that she completed her postdoctoral fellowship at UPMC, tweeted, "fyi: I reached out to some @UPMC contacts who confirmed as of 8/1 he is no longer a fellowship director as this paper is 'incompatible with our core beliefs about who we train and how we train them'"

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This backlash, and apparent demotion, comes after Wang published a white paper in the Journal of the American Heart Association, in which he argued against affirmative action policies within the field of medicine. While many of the responses to Wang were measured and discussed the content of his paper, other responses accused Wang of racism and demanded the journal retract the piece.

On Monday, the journal released a statement announcing that it stands for “inclusivity” and that it is re-evaluating Wang’s paper. In the paper, Wang criticized the notion that affirmative action in medicine necessarily leads to better outcomes for minority patients and asserted that merit should be the primary measure considered in medical school admissions.

Wang wrote: “There exists no empirical evidence by accepted standards for causal inference to support the mantra that 'diversity saves lives.'" He also wrote that “ultimately, all who aspire to a profession in medicine and cardiology must be assessed as individuals on the basis of their personal merits, not their racial and ethnic identities.”

In case you thought 2020 couldn't get any more absurd here we have a literal Chinese Cardiologist being discriminated against for insisting that people should be judged on their individual merits.