February 3, 2006

Medical-School Chief Is Forced Out

Under pressure from the newly inaugurated Gov. Jon S. Corzine, the president of the scandal-plagued University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has agreed to step down after just one year on the job.

John J. Petillo will receive $600,000, the equivalent of one year's salary, under a severance package, and will resign as director of the nation's largest public health-care university by the end of February.

"The governor thought it was a good time for a fresh start at

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