 Three years later, after a legal case arising from the University's attempts to demote him as director and remove his endowed chair, he left the university.In 2009 he was appointed to the John B. Francis chair in bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, succeeding John D. Lantos, inaugural holder of the chair.Since 2014 he is a professor of healthcare administration in the Department of Health Administration and Policy in the University of New Haven School of Health Sciences, where he teaches public health and health law.