Press Release

Do No Harm Launches Center for Accountability in Medicine and Anti-Woke Medical School Rankings

  • By Do No Harm Staff
  • September 24, 2025

RICHMOND, VA; September 24, 2025 – Today, Do No Harm proudly launched the Center for Accountability in Medicine. Through a data-driven and research-focused approach, the Center will expose and hold accountable medical institutions that push divisive identity politics. The Center will provide valuable resources to the public on which schools, medical associations, and academic journals are adhering to core principles of excellence and merit instead of political ideology.

The Center’s inaugural publication is the Medical School Excellence Index. This is the first definitive ranking of U.S. medical schools based on their commitment to academic excellence, transparency, and opposition to divisive identity politics. The Index serves as a counter to traditional rankings, which often favor DEI programs or ignore their detrimental effects.

“The Center for Accountability in Medicine and the Medical School Excellence Index are urgently needed to combat the tide of wokeness in healthcare,” said Ian Kingsbury, PhD, Director of the Center for Accountability in Medicine. “To eliminate DEI’s divisive influence in medicine, we must recognize medical schools that focus on excellence and expose those that promote political activism. The Center advances Do No Harm’s mission of ensuring patients, not politics, remain the top priority of the institutions training our future medical professionals. I am excited for our next chapter in leading the fight to restore integrity to medicine.”

“The launch of the Center for Accountability in Medicine marks a major step forward in Do No Harm’s mission of restoring integrity to medicine,” said Stanley Goldfarb, MD, Chairman at Do No Harm. “From exposing medical schools’ racially based admissions practices and accreditors’ DEI mandates to suing major institutions and companies over discriminatory programs, we have achieved unprecedented success in rooting out divisive identity politics from healthcare. The new Center, under Ian Kingsbury’s leadership, will continue and expand this work to ensure our nation’s medical institutions are held accountable and prioritize merit and expertise, not an ideological agenda.”

The Medical School Excellence Index identifies the best medical schools in the country as well as the worst by ranking each institution on three constructs: Academic excellence, transparency, and rejection of DEI.

The top-ranked schools are:

  • USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
  • NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • University of Michigan Medical School
  • Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

The worst-ranked schools are:

  • University of California, Davis School of Medicine
  • University of New Mexico School of Medicine
  • Central Michigan University College of Medicine
  • Oregon Health & Science University College of Medicine

The full rankings can be found here.

The Center will be led by Ian Kingsbury, PhD, Director of Research at Do No Harm.

Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. It has 35,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 14 countries.