Detroit Medical Center CEO Mike Duggan is seeking to sever ties with the Wayne State University School of Medicine and set up the DMC's own residency program. In an email to DMC employees obtained by The Detroit News, Duggan stated that the DMC is focusing on protecting the DMC's financial "safety net." Dr. Robert Mentzer, Jr., dean of the WSU medical school, stated that the DMC's solely-sponsored residency program "is inconsistent with good faith negotiations and places our jointly sponsored programs at great peril."