Article: Medical school skips job posting; Carey gets newly created position.(NEWS)

Byline: Shaun Sutner

WORCESTER - University of Massachusetts Medical School officials waived job posting requirements to hand a $130,000-a-year, newly created job to Jennifer Davis Carey, a former top Republican administration official who resigned from Gov. Deval L. Patrick's administration last week.

Mrs. Carey stepped down Friday as secretary of elder affairs. In that post, she had long business dealings with a revenue-producing subsidiary of the medical school's Commonwealth Medicine division administering the state's $60 million Prescription Advantage pharmacy program for the elderly.

Eight days earlier, the medical school's deputy chancellor, Thomas ...

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