Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, is the director of medical affairs at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, where she oversees the medical administration, graduate medical education, and medical staff services departments.

Dear credentialing colleague:

A federal court judge found that a credentials committee’s order instructing a female physician to undergo a physical evaluation was discriminatory, according to a July 2 Boston Globe article. Sagun Tuli, MD, a neurosurgeon at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston claimed that the committee’s recommendation was based in part on continuous harassment from the chief of neurosurgery. The judge’s June 30 ruling overturned an earlier recommendation from a US magistrate judge.