Specialist stripped of academic appointment
21st October 2015
A senior oncologist has been stripped of his academic appointment after pleading guilty to drugging then indecently assaulting a female registrar.
The University of NSW says it has withdrawn John Kearsley’s appointment as Conjoint Professor in the St George and Sutherland Clinical School with immediate effect.
“The conduct to which Dr Kearsley has pleaded guilty is entirely inconsistent