Columbia University Medical Center has cut public ties with Mehmet Oz, MD, the celebrity doctor who goes by "Dr. Oz" and is now a Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, according to The Daily Beast.
The teaching hospital has removed his personnel pages from its website. The move appears to have happened in January, the news outlet reported, after HuffPost reported that his title had been changed to "professor emeritus of surgery." Oz previously served in senior positions, such as vice chair of the surgery department and director of integrated medicine.
Columbia removed Oz's faculty profile and disconnected hyperlinks to the bio on several pages that mention his name from previous articles. His name also no longer appears in website searches for doctors with the school's Irving Medical Center.
In a listing for surgery faculty, Oz is listed as a "special lecturer" and still has office phone and fax numbers, but his listing is not linked to a faculty bio. Nearly every other faculty member without a link is no longer affiliated with the medical center or has died, The Daily Beast reported.
What's more, the outgoing message on the office voicemail for the phone number in the listing is old. It advertises audience tickets to his former daytime TV show and tells callers about medical services that he stopped providing 4 years ago, the news outlet reported.
