The decision to favor board-certified psychiatrists is a legitimate, nondiscriminatory answer to claims of age discrimination and retaliation against the Department of Veterans Affairs, a federal judge has ruled.
Psychiatrist Jill Meyer, now 64, is licensed to practice medicine in five states, but she is not board certified. She claimed that, at age 59, she was wrongly passed over for a position as staff psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System in favor of two psychiatrists, both under the age of 40 and both board certified.
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