A spurned father and husband. A vindictive personality. A stalker’s mentality. A physician. These are all descriptors that would apply to a high-level University of Minnesota researcher whose private emotional meanderings are now the stuff of public scrutiny.

Locked out of his home and ignored by his loved ones, Schleiss, a prominent University of Minnesota researcher, took matters into his own hands. He used his position at the university to peek into the medical records of his wife and two teenage daughters a dozen times in 2008 and 2009, university and other records show.

Although the doctor was not formally disciplined (ie, at the very least reprimanded; worst — license revoked); his actions are the subject of a federal investigation into privacy laws regarding patients’ electronic health records. Is his position as the chief of pediatric infectious diseases enough to shield him unfairly from any sort of discipline that would most likely have been meted out to any other physician (or other healthcare worker) in a less prominent role? | LINK

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