16 Sep 2023 6:21 am
Top brass at the University of Florida College of Medicine fast-tracked the hiring of Dr. Joseph Ladapo, knowing that Gov. Ron DeSantis was eyeing him for the position of state surgeon general, according to emails obtained by the USA TODAY Network-Florida.
They also knew they needed to get it done quickly to coincide with the governor’s desire to announce Ladapo’s appointment the day after his predecessor — Dr. Scott Rivkees, also a UF College of Medicine professor — stepped down.
Florida’s new Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, got a pay raise when he accepted the job. Jobs, actually.
Ladapo will make $437,000 a year. Here's how that breaks down.
The University of Florida College of Medicine announced it would pay Ladapo a base salary per year of $262,000 as a professor of general internal medicine.
The whirlwind courtship lasted two weeks from start to finish, as the college’s deans ‘Zoom’ed and vetted Ladapo, found a place for him in the college’s division of internal medicine and sent him the job application link.
According to the employee interchange contract between UF and the Department of Health for his services, provided under a public records request filed by the USA TODAY Network–Florida, the DOH is contributing $150,000 a year to UF toward that salary.
The state also is paying an additional $100,000 a year directly to Ladapo, DOH spokeswoman Weesam Khoury said, which makes a total of $250,000 a year the DOH is paying for him. This amount is the most allowed for that position under raises for agency heads recently approved by the Florida Legislature.
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Hey, for $462,000 a year I’d say what DeSantis wants me to say, too.
They also knew they needed to get it done quickly to coincide with the governor’s desire to announce Ladapo’s appointment the day after his predecessor — Dr. Scott Rivkees, also a UF College of Medicine professor — stepped down.
Florida’s new Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, got a pay raise when he accepted the job. Jobs, actually.
Ladapo will make $437,000 a year. Here's how that breaks down.
The University of Florida College of Medicine announced it would pay Ladapo a base salary per year of $262,000 as a professor of general internal medicine.
The whirlwind courtship lasted two weeks from start to finish, as the college’s deans ‘Zoom’ed and vetted Ladapo, found a place for him in the college’s division of internal medicine and sent him the job application link.
According to the employee interchange contract between UF and the Department of Health for his services, provided under a public records request filed by the USA TODAY Network–Florida, the DOH is contributing $150,000 a year to UF toward that salary.
The state also is paying an additional $100,000 a year directly to Ladapo, DOH spokeswoman Weesam Khoury said, which makes a total of $250,000 a year the DOH is paying for him. This amount is the most allowed for that position under raises for agency heads recently approved by the Florida Legislature.
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Hey, for $462,000 a year I’d say what DeSantis wants me to say, too.