MEDIA
Brian Lahey, psychiatrist, Overland Park, sex with patients
Kansas City Star JoCo doctor accused of sex with patients loses Kansas license, can still work in Mo. --Excerpt An Overland Park psychiatrist has agreed to an indefinite suspension of his Kansas license amid allegations of having sex with patients and other violations...Brian Patrick Lahey took the suspension and agreed to not contest the allegations in a consent order issued Tuesday by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts. “Licensee committed an act or acts of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct by committing an act or acts of sexual abuse, misconduct or other improper sexual contact, which exploited the licensee-patient relationship,” [...]
Charles Noplis, Louisville Psychiatrist, Punched a woman at a bar
Courier Journal Kentucky board opens new investigation of psychiatrist with ‘anger management’ issues Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that Dr. Charles Noplis II is a contract physician at Renew Recovery. Its website identified him as the medical director. A Louisville psychiatrist whose medical license was already on probation for punching a woman at a bar and punching a patient in his office has now pleaded guilty to battery of his wife. Dr. Charles Noplis II, who was featured in a Courier Journal story last year about addiction medicine, pleaded guilty Tuesday to battery in Dearborn [...]
Psychiatrist Jane McLennan, Edinburgh, loses license
Psychiatrist Jane McLennan Edinburgh News Renowned Edinburgh psychiatrist struck off for ‘misleading and inaccurate’ patient report By The Newsroom March 21, 2019 -- Excerpt A RENOWNED psychiatrist has been struck off after a tribunal found she produced a “misleading and inaccurate” report on a patient involved in an unfair dismissal claim against the Ministry of Justice. Dr Jane McLennan, who was based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, has had her name erased from the medical register after falsely claiming the man, known as ‘Mr A’, had cursed throughout the one hour 48 minute evaluation and told her that he kept [...]
Kenneth Kramer: Public records are yours
Kenneth Kramer The Daily Telegram Public records are yours to research, discover, access information By Kenneth Kramer March 13, 2019 Public records: documents made by a government agency which are required to be kept and maintained. Reporters love them. They form the backbone of many news stories. A reporter’s pay can be based on drumming up stories so public records are of great value. Watch the newsroom waters churn when juicy public records are thrown in! Political scandal, big names, big money, controversy, sex or violence! Hold on to your boat! Those fish bite hard! Reporters can do a whole [...]
Billy Lockhart, San Fran Psychiatrist, sentenced
Billy Lockhart Los Angeles Times Medical board revokes license of San Francisco doctor caught with child porn --Excerpt A San Francisco psychiatrist who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography was stripped of his medical license this week. A federal judge last year sentenced Billy Lockhart to three years in prison, which he began serving in November, according to court records. Lockhart was a resident of UC San Francisco’s Department of Psychiatry when he was arrested in May 2017 as part of a San Francisco Police Department probe into online child pornography trading. Investigators found hundreds of videos and graphic [...]
D. Eugene Redmond Jr., Connecticut Psychiatrist – banned from the Yale campus after claims of sexual misconduct
D. Eugene Redmond Jr. New Haven Register Yale hires investigator after claims of sexual misconduct against former professor By Ed Stannard January 28, 2019 -- Excerpt NEW HAVEN — Yale University President Peter Salovey has hired a former U.S. attorney to investigate sexual misconduct complaints against a former psychiatry professor at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. D. Eugene Redmond Jr. retired in July 2018 while disciplinary proceedings were being brought, based on a student intern’s complaint, according to a Yale news release. A second student filed a complaint this month. The two students were interns at the St. [...]
Leon Fajerman, California psychiatrist, gets house arrest for sexual abuse
Leon Fajerman NBC San Diego South Bay Psychiatrist Guilty of Sexual Assault Avoids Jail Time By NBC 7 Staff January 18, 2019 -- Excerpt A South Bay psychiatrist who admitted to sexually abusing six female patients avoided a jail sentence Friday, shocking and angering his victims. Leon Fajerman at first denied allegations he sexually assaulted the women during counseling sessions, but later pleaded guilty in October to felony sexual contact with a patient and misdemeanor sexual battery. There were eight victims in all involved in incidents between October 2016 and July 2017. Letters to Judge Frank Devaney written by Fajerman's [...]
Anjena Gandham, Saskatchewan – suspended for lying
Anjena Gandham Star Phoenix Psychiatrist-in-training suspended for lying about prescription By Kathy Fitzpatrick January 9, 2019 -- Excerpt A doctor training to be a psychiatrist is suspended from medical practice for one month for repeatedly lying about a prescription for a colleague she signed in contravention of the rules. Dr. Anjena Gandham was partway through a psychiatric residency program at the University of Saskatchewan when she was disciplined by her licensing body, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan. Along with the suspension, Gandham was reprimanded and ordered to take an ethics course on professionalism...
Emily Lazarou, psychiatrist, “loose cannon”
Emily Lazarou Tampa Bay Times Pinellas judge: Controversial psychiatrist can testify in Jonchuck case By Dan Sullivan December 10, 2018 A forensic psychiatrist who has been criticized for being "biased and coercive" in her evaluations of criminal defendants will remain as an expert witness in the case of John Jonchuck, who is accused of dropping his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge. Over vocal objections from defense attorneys, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Christine Helinger said Monday there was no need for a hearing on whether to boot Dr. Emily Lazarou from the case. "What you're suggesting is that she's a horrible psychiatrist," [...]
Anthony Wolf, Psychiatrist, Ann Arbor – sex with patient
Anthony Wolf The Detroit News State suspends Ann Arbor psychiatrist's license By Charles E. Ramirez November 12, 2018 -- Excerpt An Ann Arbor psychiatrist's medical license has been suspended for at least six months after he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a patient, according to documents filed with the state. Anthony John Wolf has also been fined $20,000 by the state's Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. The state's Board of Medicine issued its order to suspend Wolf's license on Oct. 12, according to documents recently released by the licensing department... The psychiatrist allegedly began a sexual affair with [...]