She got a raise and a thank-you, then a performance plan - what changed in between
A former Mayo Clinic research director says the hospital pushed her out after she flagged compliance concerns in its AI work.
The former director joined Mayo in December 2023 to lead research operations, overseeing 36 employees and three managers, according to a complaint filed July 6 in federal court in Minnesota. She was brought in, she says, to help align Mayo's research with federal governance standards for artificial intelligence.
Over the next 18 months, the filing says, she repeatedly raised concerns about how Mayo handled patient privacy, research data, and the federally required review process that vets studies involving people - the institutional review board, or IRB. The complaint alleges that her supervisor and the board's senior chair pushed to skip or rush that review on several projects. In one case, it says, a study team deleted unfavorable results to hide what the filing describes as a 67% error rate. The complaint says ten separate whistleblower reports raised similar concerns about the same project.
When she pressed one senior leader, the complaint says, he told her that fixing the issue would cost "political capital" he was not willing to spend. On another occasion, according to the filing, she was told a colleague had "Commander's intent" and should not be asked to justify bypassing full review.
The retaliation, she claims, started within days of her February 2025 report...
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