ALBANY — Jeffrey Fudin, a clinical pharmacy specialist who reported abuses of cancer research patients at Stratton VA Medical Center Hospital in the mid-1990s, leading to a federal investigation and the alleged retaliation against him and another whistleblower, died last week at age 63 following a battle with cancer.
Fudin and Anthony Mariano, another former pharmacist at the VA, had faced years of retaliation by hospital administrators after reporting the alleged medical protocol violations in the hospital's once-troubled cancer program, according to records filed in a federal whistleblower court. Fudin, a Delmar resident, was later fired but had his job reinstated by a judge, a ruling the hospital continued to fight.
In 1995, Fudin warned hospital and Veterans Affairs officials that cancer patients at Stratton VA were unduly suffering and at risk of dying prematurely because they were being given drugs in violation of medical protocols. At least one patient may have died as a result of the alleged practices, which included giving certain drugs to patients whose medical backgrounds did not fit the criteria for use of both experimental and FDA-approved drugs, according to hospital and court records.
Fudin's allegations, which were later supported by Mariano, who was the hospital's pharmacy director at the time, were detailed in a series of Times Union's stories published beginning in 2003. The newspaper's series raised questions about how thoroughly federal officials...
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