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Mary Beckerle was reinstated Tuesday to her position as director and CEO of the University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Beckerle was fired suddenly via email last week, angering faculty members and the prominent Huntsman family of donors. She’ll now report directly to David Pershing, university president, according to the Tribune, in an agreement that walls her off from Vivian Lee, senior vice president of health sciences and CEO of university health care.
Kathy Wilets, university spokesperson, said the announcement "only changes the reporting structure,” between the cancer center and other medical facilities, however. "We continue to be an integrated system with shared clinical and research resources.” Lee declined requests for comment but Jon Huntsman, Sr. told the Tribune that she has previously expressed a desire to combine the cash-rich institute and the university’s medical school so the former would be a campus research facility. "I told her not on her life," Huntsman said.
