Article: MEDICAL SCHOOL HEAD LEAVES JOB

Dr. Leonard Laster, the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and one of the highest paid public officials in the state, has lost his job, according to faculty sources.

Some say he has been fired; others, who asked not to be identified, said the decision to terminate Laster's tenure has been amicable.

Dissension between the chancellor and doctors on the faculty and staff of the school's affiliated hospital is the basis for the agreement to remove Laster, said sources close to the university.

At the same time, the trustees named Dr. Aaron Lazare, a psychiatrist who has served as interim dean for several months, to the post of dean.

Laster, 61, was not in his ...

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