MEDIA
Eugene Redmond, former psychiatry professor at the Yale School of Medicine, sexually harassed a student
Yale Daily News I SAW WHAT I SAW: On this island, a Yale professor sexually harassed a Yale student. Did the University do enough? By Jever Mariwala, Alice Park, & Marisa Peryer March 5, 2019 Psychiatrist Eugene Redmond A Yale student endured serial sexual harassment during a summer internship. The perpetrator — a School of Medicine professor — retired quietly. Five months later, the University announced an investigation — but did Yale do enough? Editor’s Note: This article contains sexually graphic descriptions of misconduct. The student who experienced the misconduct requested the pseudonym Blair to protect their privacy. On [...]
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) May 15, 2010 Saturday METRO EDITION Psychiatrist disciplined for patient relationship; Dr. Elizabeth Delesante admitted that she crossed the line with a patient. BYLINE: MAURA LERNER; STAFF WRITER, STAR TRIBUNE (Mpls.-St. Paul) SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4B LENGTH: 249 words A psychiatrist in Sartell, Minn., has been reprimanded by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice for unprofessional and unethical conduct by developing a personal relationship with a patient. Dr. Elizabeth Delesante, 51, admitted that she had "failed to maintain professional boundaries" with the individual, who was her patient for nearly 10 years, according to a disciplinary action [...]
Monterey County Herald (California) December 23, 2009 Wednesday Doctor takes plea deal in prison overbilling BYLINE: By JIM JOHNSON Herald Salinas Bureau SECTION: LOCAL LENGTH: 561 words A Santa Cruz psychiatrist pleaded no contest Tuesday to falsifying his time card at Salinas Valley State Prison in a scheme to overbill for his services. Dr. David Hoban agreed to plead to the felony charge as part of a deal that allowed him to avoid a grand theft charge and instead be sentenced to community service and restitution. As part of the deal, Hoban wrote out a check for $44,445 in court [...]
The Virginian-Pilot(Norfolk, VA.) May 25, 2006 Thursday The Virginian-Pilot Edition Former Beach psychiatrist gets 3½-year term in drug, fraud case BYLINE: AMY JETER SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. B4 LENGTH: 409 words DATELINE: NORFOLK BY AMY JETER THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT NORFOLK -- A former Virginia Beach psychiatrist was sentenced Wednesday to 3½ years in federal prison for unlawfully distributing prescription narcotics and improperly billing Medicaid. Jeremy A. Stowell, 64, had pleaded guilty to illegally prescribing OxyContin, methadone and vicoprofen and to charging Medicaid, including for some patient visits that never occurred. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson ordered Stowell to pay a $20,000 fine [...]
Francesco DiLeo
The Washington Post January 10, 1988, Sunday, Final Edition Licenses Valid Despite Crimes; Many Convicted Doctors Given Probation by Panel BYLINE: Susan Schmidt, Washington Post Staff Writer SECTION: FIRST SECTION; PAGE A17 LENGTH: 698 words More than 35 Maryland doctors in the past two decades have been convicted of sex crimes, drug charges, theft, Medicaid fraud and other criminal violations without losing their rights to practice medicine. Thirteen doctors in all, nearly half of them psychiatrists, have been disciplined for criminal or unethical sexual activity during the past two decades, according to commission records. One was suspended for five years. [...]
Psychiatrist Gregory Villabona, Dover, Delaware – sexually abused two girls, kept unlicensed guns in his office, repeatedly prescribed in a careless manner
New York Post Perv psychiatrist finally loses license over sex with patients By Associated Press March 6, 2019 Psychiatrist Gregory VillaBona DOVER, Delaware — A Delaware psychiatrist has lost his medical license after being accused of having sex with his patients, keeping unlicensed guns in his office and repeatedly prescribing drugs in a careless manner in the years since he sexually abused two girls. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline revoked the license of Gregory Villabona on Tuesday, ending more than 15 years of efforts to contain alleged professional misconduct. Villabona’s [...]
The Boston Herald March 22, 1997 Saturday ALL EDITIONS NEWS IN BRIEF; 2 psych docs' licenses KO'd SECTION: NEWS; Pg. C47 LENGTH: 132 words The licenses of two psychiatrists have been revoked by the state Board of Registration in Medicine for alleged abuses of their physician privileges, the board announced yesterday. Dr. Reinaldo de los Heros, a psychiatrist and neurologist from Lawrence, was convicted for overbilling his patients by $ 245,000. The board also found that de los Heros repeatedly violated state law by giving his staff signed but otherwise blank prescriptions. Also on March 12, the board suspended the [...]
Eureka Times Standard (California) October 25, 2006 Wednesday Eureka doctor has license revoked BYLINE: The Times-Standard SECTION: LOCAL; News LENGTH: 191 words A Eureka psychiatrist has had his license revoked by the Medical Board of California. The Medical Board's fall newsletter lists Dr. Paul Organ among the doctors facing administrative actions between May 1 and July 31 of this year. His license was revoked on May 5, the newsletter states. The medical board states that Organ "violated the terms and conditions of a board-ordered probation by testing positive for the use of controlled substances and failing to successfully complete the [...]
Austin American-Statesman (Texas) September 14, 2011 Wednesday Final Edition 3 Austin doctors disciplined by Texas Medical Board BYLINE: Mary Ann Roser AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF SECTION: METRO; Pg. B03 LENGTH: 435 words Three Austin doctors were among 108 disciplined recently by the Texas Medical Board, including a psychiatrist who was fined $20,000 after the board said he improperly wrote prescriptions and performed an evaluation on a longtime patient's wife that got used against her in court. The board accused David Williams Cardwell, 63, of failing to get consent from the patient's wife for the evaluation when she came to Cardwell's office in [...]