- Thomas Jefferson University President Mark Tykocinski, who came under fire less than three months ago for liking controversial tweets about COVID-19 vaccines and gender reassignment surgery for children on his official presidential Twitter account, resigned from his leadership position this week after only a year in the job, the school announced.
- In an email to the university community Thursday, Joseph G. Cacchione, Jefferson’s CEO, said that Tykocinski is exiting the leadership role “to focus on his research and clinical translation efforts” but would remain a full professor.
- He also will no longer serve as interim dean of Jefferson’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College. The email also noted that the university’s searches for a new provost and medical school dean were nearing completion.
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FILE - In this April 22, 2009 file photo, visitors look around an exhibit in the new visitor center at Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello in Charlottesville, Va. Party politics "agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms." It "kindles the animosity of one part against another (and) foments occasionally riot and insurrection." The words of Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, who announced with much fanfare that he's not running for re-election because he's fed up with the Senate's partisan battles? Try George Washington. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
