A former student health director for The Ohio State University forfeited his medical license after being accused of failing to report dozens of sexual assault allegations from young men pertaining to Richard Strauss, a doctor with the college who committed suicide in 2005.
Dr. Ted W. Grace voluntarily surrendered his professional license on Wednesday following a March report that suggested he failed to alert the appropriate authorities about Strauss in the 1990s and made “a false statement related to the practice of medicine,” according to state records, which list his permission to practice medicine as “permanently revoked.” The move, part of a larger settlement agreement, will let the disgraced medical authority avoid a series of hearings scheduled for the coming days, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
Grace is the first university official to face disciplinary action in the case that involves over 400 men who have sued the university after alleging Strauss groped them sexually since 1979. Grace, who served in his role at OSU from 1992 to 2007, told a medical review board last year that he knew a physician at the college was “touching athletes” before he assumed his post.
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During his tenure, Grave was reportedly made aware of at least three sexual harassment allegations in 1995, though the same year, he falsely stated, “I want to assure you that we had never received a complaint about Dr. Strauss before, although we have had several positive comments.”
Grace reportedly verbally warned Strauss, but he “did not notify the State Medical Board of Ohio.”
Steve Snyder-Hill, who attended OSU as an undergraduate and graduate student from 1991 to 1998, accused Strauss of grabbing his genitals during an exam for a lump on his chest. He called Grace’s license forfeiture a step in the right direction, but he thinks others are culpable and have yet to face justice.
“Ted Grace wasn’t the only one. There are a lot more people that are out there that can still have punitive action taken against them,” Snyder-Hill said. “There’s a lot more people that need to fall. … Ted Grace is just the first one.”
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OSU did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
