Penn Professor Pleads No Contest to Assault

A medical professor at the University of Pennsylvania pleaded no contest this month to charges that he sexually assaulted a young woman two years ago. He also pleaded no contest to related drug charges.

He faces up to 11 years in jail when he is sentenced next year.

Tracy K. McIntosh, a tenured professor of neurosurgery who directs the Head Injury Research Center at the university's School of Medicine, was accused of drugging a 23-year-old woman on September 6, 2002, with

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