U.S. University Withdraws Job Offer To Indian Transplant Surgeon Now Employed in Glasgow

MOBILE AL - The University of South Alabama has withdrawn a job offer to a transplant surgeon, saying he failed to disclose legal claims he has made against previous employers as well as allegations against him.

Dr. Rahul Jindal, who leads an organ transplant center in Glasgow, Scotland, was due to start Aug. 5 as the only surgeon at the university's transplant center.

"He was not straight with us," said Dr. Richard Teplick, chief of the medical staff at USA's College of Medicine. "He did not tell us about some of these things that he should have."

The offer was withdrawn after the Mobile Register newspaper raised questions about the India-born doctor's racial discrimination complaints against Glasgow University and against his previous employer, a surgery group affiliated with Indiana University.

Teplick said the school is close to reaching an agreement with another candidate.

The opening was created by the departure of kidney transplant surgeon Dr. Barry Browne, who went into private practice this summer and has not performed transplants for months.

Jindal, who was educated in India, has served for the past three years as surgeon and director of a university transplant program at Glasgow University.

The news that Jindal, 46, was apparently headed back to the United States made front-page headlines this week in Glasgow, where Jindal has become well-known because of his calls for organ donations and because he filed a discrimination complaint against his employer.

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This article posted July 27, 2002.