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A decorated veteran of the country's public health battles -- dating back to the founding of the Medicare system -- is taking aim at the California stem cell program.
Dr. Philip R. Lee, a consulting professor at Stanford University and former UCSF chancellor who helped craft national health policies for the Johnson and Clinton administrations, signed onto a legal petition to protest some of the early activities of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
"The public has to have confidence in what's going on," Lee said Thursday, calling for higher ethics standards, more public oversight and lower salaries at the new stem cell institute. According to executives at Spencer Stuart, a personnel firm retained to conduct the hunt for the stem cell agency's chief executive, the position is expected to command a salary in the range of $300, 000 to $600,000.
The $3 billion stem cell program, which voters launched in November's statewide election by approving Proposition 71, is "a very serious undertaking, " Lee said.
Lee holds a UCSF appointment as a professor emeritus in addition to his Stanford...
Dr. Philip R. Lee, a consulting professor at Stanford University and former UCSF chancellor who helped craft national health policies for the Johnson and Clinton administrations, signed onto a legal petition to protest some of the early activities of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
"The public has to have confidence in what's going on," Lee said Thursday, calling for higher ethics standards, more public oversight and lower salaries at the new stem cell institute. According to executives at Spencer Stuart, a personnel firm retained to conduct the hunt for the stem cell agency's chief executive, the position is expected to command a salary in the range of $300, 000 to $600,000.
The $3 billion stem cell program, which voters launched in November's statewide election by approving Proposition 71, is "a very serious undertaking, " Lee said.
Lee holds a UCSF appointment as a professor emeritus in addition to his Stanford...