May 24, 2025 4:01 PM PT
An Orange County jury has awarded $5.8 million in damages to a UC Irvine neurosurgeon who claimed in a whistleblower lawsuit university officials retaliated against him for filing a grievance regarding risks to patient safety, abuse of power and economic waste.
Dr. Mark Linskey, a board-certified neurosurgeon and former chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC Irvine, has been embroiled in litigation since 2016 over actions taken by former UCI School of Medicine Dean Ralph Clayman and former department chair Johnny Delashaw.
The May 9 verdict covers retaliatory acts from November 2015 to the present date, a second phase of litigation. Linskey was previously awarded $2 million in 2019 for actions that occurred prior to the conclusion of a university-level investigation.
April 25, 2019
“Having two sequential, unanimous jury verdicts is a very good feeling,” the 64-year-old Newport Beach resident said Wednesday. “It’s vindication that good, honest people on a jury can see through to the truth and that our system works.”
John Murray, a spokesman for UCI Health, said Friday the institution would not comment on the matter.
Linskey said Wednesday his troubles began in 2013, after he claimed in a grievance Delashaw and another physician he’d brought to UCI, Dr. Frank Hsu, had removed certain patients from a general neurosurgery on-call service, reserving them for their own care and depriving them from the skills, knowledge and expertise of...
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