THUNDER BAY – The founding dean and CEO at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is on his way out the door.
Roger Strasser, who oversaw the opening of NOSM’s joint Sudbury and Thunder Bay campuses in 2005, sent a tweet out Monday morning suggesting he plans to step down.
“NOSM board of directors has struck a search committee to recruit the next Dean-CEO,” he wrote, providing an email address for stakeholders to provide input on his future replacement.
NOSM officials confirmed Strasser, who was hired in 2002, will leave next year.
The Sudbury campus has been in the news of late after a NOSM-trained physician says she was suspended for reporting allegations of sexual harassment, according to Sudbury.com.
Ana Safavi was on a work placement in the emergency department at Health Sciences North in Sudbury when the suspension was levelled.
NOSM has been asked for comment on Strasser’s future, but no one was immediately available to speak.
