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TV psychiatrist Keith Ablow denies sexual contact accusations
Salem News Psychiatrist denies allegations By Paul Leighton Psychiatrist Keith Ablow SALEM — The psychiatrist who has been accused of engaging in sexual contact with a patient denied the accusations on Monday. Dr. Keith Ablow said there is no truth to the allegations in a lawsuit filed last week by a Salem woman in Newburyport Superior Court. He said the woman was the subject of a no-trespassing order sent by his lawyer two years ago ordering her to stop harassing him. "I categorically deny each and every allegation," Ablow said. The lawsuit alleges that Ablow engaged in "physical sexual [...]
Matthew Brams
NPR Investigation: Patients' Drug Options Under Medicaid Heavily Influenced By Drugmakers July 18, 2018 By LIZ ESSLEY WHYTE, JOE YERARDI, ALISON KODJAK Psychiatrist Matthew Brams Drug companies have infiltrated nearly every part of the process that determines how their drugs will be covered by Medicaid... At the Texas meeting alone, 12 people advocated for the state's list to include brand-name antipsychotic drugs, especially the expensive ones. Five of the speakers worked for drug companies. One represented a patient advocacy group that gets significant funding from drugmakers. At least four of the remaining six, including Patel, had ties to drugmakers [...]
Mohamed Ramadan, Arizona Psychiatrist
NPR Investigation: Patients' Drug Options Under Medicaid Heavily Influenced By Drugmakers July 18, 2018 By LIZ ESSLEY WHYTE, JOE YERARDI, ALISON KODJAK Drug companies have infiltrated nearly every part of the process that determines how their drugs will be covered by Medicaid... Enriching the decision-makers Dr. Mohamed Ramadan volunteers on the 16-member Arizona committee that decides the state's list of preferred drugs. He also earned more than $700,000 since 2013 from drug companies, federal data show, a healthy supplement to his $259,000 salary as a psychiatrist at a mental health clinic. Some of the drugmakers' payments to Ramadan came in [...]
UK Psychiatrist Ovais Badat, locked up for supplying cocaine, gets prison sentence extended for child porn
Gloucester NewsDisgraced psychiatrist has jail sentence extended for downloading child abuse images By Geoffrey Bennett & Melissa Jones July 19, 2018 Psychiatrist Ovais Badat A Gloucester doctor has had his jail sentence extended for downloading images of children being sexually abused. Dr Ovais Badat was locked up last October for two and a half years after he was convicted of supplying cocaine, making articles for use in frauds, fraud and possessing Class B drug Ketamine. A court heard how he supplied a Class A drug to a woman with ADHD who then relapsed into addiction. He worked with adults [...]
Another Psych Caught on Videotape
Vindy.com Staff report Boardman psychiatrist decertified after fraud uncovered COLUMBUS December 22, 2012 A Boardman psychiatrist has been decertified as a provider for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and has repaid more than $70,000 after pleading guilty to workers’ compensation fraud. Psychiatrist Anil C. Nalluri Surveillance video captured by an undercover agent from BWC’s Special Investigations Department posing as a patient in need of psychotherapy services showed Dr. Anil C. Nalluri providing inadequate care. He later billed BWC for services he never provided. Nalluri was indicted in March and pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud Dec. 13. [...]
Florida Psychiatrist Jerome Feldman Sent to Prison for 16 years – cheated “seriously ill people out of $400,000 with false promises of organ transplants in the Philippines, where he was tracked down by the FBI”
The Post Standard (Syracuse, NY) HE GETS PRISON FOR ORGAN-TRANSPLANT CON; JEROME FELDMAN, WHOSE ESTRANGED WIFE LIVES IN BALDWINSVILLE, LURED FIVE SICK PEOPLE TO PHILIPPINES. By John O'Brien May 28, 2010 Psychiatrist Jerome Feldman A former psychiatrist was sent to prison for nearly 16 years Thursday for duping seriously ill people out of $400,000 with false promises of organ transplants in the Philippines. U.S. District Judge David Hurd sentenced Jerome Feldman to 15 years and 8 months in prison and ordered him to repay $2 million to the victims of the phony organ-transplant scheme and an earlier Medicare fraud [...]
Denise Graham, New Orleans Psychiatrist, disciplined for performing liposuction
The Times-Picayune New Orleans-area psychiatrist disciplined for performing cosmetic surgery January 04, 2013 By Laura Maggi Psychiatrist Denise Marie Graham The state licensing board for Louisiana doctors has found that a New Orleans-area psychiatrist improperly performed liposuction and offered "stem cell injection therapy" at a clinic where she worked. The physician, Denise Marie Graham, agreed in December to stop performing cosmetic surgery and other medical treatments outside her field of expertise, but kept her license to practice in the state. Graham moved out of Louisiana in August, telling the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners that she doesn't [...]
Sergio Paradiso, Iowa Psychiatrist, Escapes Sex with Patient Lawsuit – But Surrendered License Previously
Courthouse News Psychiatrist's Off-Duty Tryst Won't Cost Iowa By Jeff D. Gorman January 15, 2015 Psychiatrist Sergio Paradiso (CN) - A woman who began a sexual relationship with a university psychiatrist after she stopped seeing him professionally can't pursue a malpractice claim against his employer or the state of Iowa, an appeals panel ruled. Sonni Giudicessi was a patient at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) Eating Disorder Program three times from 2008 to 2009. She was treated for anorexia, depression and alcohol abuse. Dr. Sergio Paradiso was one of her psychiatrists, and she talked with him [...]
Psychiatrist Robert Browne, Hawaii, might get kicked out of cemetary
Hawaii News He sexually abused dozens of Hawaii boys over decades. And he's buried at Punchbowl July 6th 2018 By HNN Staff Psychiatrist Robert Brown Among the 55,000 service members laid to rest at the National Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl is a child predator: Dr. Robert McCormick Browne. Those who were abused by the prominent psychiatrist, take issue that Punchbowl is his final resting place. "For me, I don't think he belongs there," said Alika Bajo, who was sexually abused by Browne in the 1970s at the age of 13. "That's where true heroes get buried." Browne's [...]
Larissa Panieri-Peter, South Africa Psychiatrist – Judge throws out her report
TimesLive SOUTH AFRICA Rohde trial adjourned as judge throws out psychiatrist's report By Philani Nombembe June 10, 2018 Psychiatrist Larissa Panieri-Peter The Jason Rohde murder trial was abruptly adjourned on Tuesday after his counsel complained it had been “contaminated”. This was after Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe dismissed a report by defence witness Dr Larissa Panieri-Peter‚ a specialist forensic psychiatrist. Salie-Hlophe ruled that there was no need for Panieri-Peter to be cross-examined by the state as her report relied on information from anonymous sources. On Monday‚ Panieri-Peter handed in a 43-page report based on a psychiatric assessment she conducted on Rohde [...]
Donald Grant, Aussie Psychiatrist, Under Fire for his book – “sensational rubbish” divulges personal patient info
ABC.net.au Queensland Health refers former psychiatrist to corruption watchdog over book on murderers By Brittney Klein and Lexy Hamilton-Smith June 14, 2018 Psychiatrist Donald Grant Queensland Health has asked the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) to consider whether "potential corrupt conduct" was involved in the publication of a new book by former government psychiatrist Donald Grant on 10 murderers he examined. At the behest of Queensland Health, the matter is also being investigated by the health ombudsman. It comes after Sonia Anderson, the mother of murder victim Bianca Girven, accused Dr Grant of betraying victims of crime and breaching [...]
Maryann Weisman, Penn. Psychiatrist, Arrested – kept writing prescriptions after her license was suspended
Lehighvalleylive.com Doc wrote prescriptions after license was suspended, AG says By Sarah Cassi September 23, 2015 Psychiatrist Maryann Weisman Two Lehigh County women were arrested a week ago for alleged prescription drug crimes, the state Attorney General's office said. Dr. Maryann T. Weisman, 54, of Whitehall Township, and Stacey A. Zuniga, 46, of Allentown, were arrested Wednesday by agents with the attorney general's office. Phone numbers for the women could not be located. Attorneys have not entered appearances for the pair yet, records show. Weisman, of the 800 block of Jefferson Street, is a psychiatrist accused of issuing [...]
UK Psychiatrist Ovais Badat, already in prison for supplying cocaine – now exposed for his sordid stash of child images and videos
Bristol Live Cocaine-supplying ADHD psychiatrist further jailed for child abuse images Ovais Badat is already in prison for supplying drugs and making out false prescriptions but has now been exposed for his sordid stash of images and videos By Geoffrey Bennett July 9, 2018 Psychiatrist Ovais Badat A Hengrove-based consultant psychiatrist has been jailed for downloading images of children being sexually abused. And his ten-month term is to run after the conclusion of a current two-and-a-half year term he is serving for other offences. Dr Ovais Badat worked at an adult ADHD service of Wiltshire Partnership Mental Health [...]
Hanumaiah Bandla, Michigan Psychiatrist, arraigned on allegations of abusing patients
Detroit News 6 more arraigned in abuse at Livonia mental health center By Oralandar Brand-Williams July 12, 2018 Psychiatrist Hanumaiah Bandla Livonia — Six more staff members at a Livonia psychiatric facility, including a doctor and a nurse, were arraigned Thursday in connection with the physical abuse of three male patients at the center. Appearing in 16th District Court were Thomas May, 59, of Westland, Demetris Hunt, 28, of Wayne, Wynton Dixon, 57, and Victor Peterson, 60, along with staff psychiatrist Dr. Hanumaiah Bandla, 65, of West Bloomfield Township, and nurse Erma Owens, 80, of Inkster. The six were [...]
Kenneth Tillerson, noted Boston psychiatrist, convicted of a morals charge
The North Adams, Massachusetts Transcript Convicted Psychiatrist Faces Loss of License July 13, 1949 Dr. Kenneth Tillerson, noted Boston psychiatrist convicted last May of a morals charge, today faces possible loss of his license to practice medicine in Massachusetts. The state board of registration in medicine voted to give him a hearing on the question in September. Dr. Tillerson is reported visiting Europe and his counsel asking postponement of the hearing that was to have been held today. The psychiatrist resigned staff positions at the Harvard Medical school and at the McLean (mental) hospital after conviction on the morals charge [...]
Kirk Hopkins, Chicago Psychiatrist – allegedly earned more than $5.5 million by falsely billing Medicaid for “services” never performed
WISC24.com National Healthcare Fraud Takedown Results In Charges Against Over 600 Individuals, Including Several Chicago-Area Medical Professionals By Robert Lewis Jun 28, 2018 CHICAGO — Several Chicago-area medical professionals, including four physicians, are facing federal criminal charges as part of the largest health care fraud enforcement action in Department of Justice history, federal authorities announced today. The national enforcement action taken by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force involved over 600 defendants charged throughout the country, including more than 150 physicians, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving approximately $2 billion in [...]
Harold Bloomfield, Del Mar Psychiatrist – accused of drugging patients and fondling them
The Associated Press Prominent psychiatrist, writer posts bail in battery case December 26, 2001 Psychiatrist Harold Bloomfield VISTA, Calif. - A psychiatrist and best-selling author accused of drugging patients and fondling them during counseling sessions was released from jail after he posted $500,000 bail. As a condition of his Tuesday release, a judge ordered Harold Bloomfield, 57, of Del Mar not to practice medicine and to surrender his passport to authorities. Bloomfield's attorneys had sought lower bail, saying he had no criminal record and was not a flight risk. Bloomfield has pleaded innocent to two felony charges counts of [...]
Thomas Sachy, Georgia Psychiatrist, Office Raided by Federal Drug Enforcement agents – “I guess I am just a drug pusher.”
WMAZ Gray doctor facing federal drug charges has bizarre past He's testified as an expert witness, explained exorcisms, been jailed for contempt of court and written, "I guess I am just a drug pusher." June 29, 2018 Psychiatrist Thomas Sachy Tucked away on a quiet side street near downtown Gray, it's easy to miss Dr. Thomas Sachy's medical office. But if you're in Central Georgia's legal of medical communities, there's a good chance you already know his name. Federal drug-enforcement agents raided Sachy's Georgia Pain and Behavior Medicine office on Tuesday. Federal indictments say Sachy illegally prescribed several types [...]
Kansas Psychiatrist Douglas Geenens engaged in negligent medical care, sexual exploitation, improper dispensing of drugs and failed to maintain proper records
Topeka Capital-Journal (Kansas) October 29, 2008 Wednesday Board recommends sanctions By Tim Carpenter Psychiatrist Douglas Geenens A report released Tuesday by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts recommends revocation of the license or other sanctions against a Johnson County psychiatrist accused of professional misconduct. A Kansas City, Mo., law firm retained by the board submitted a 23-count petition targeting Douglas Geenens, who trained at Menninger Clinic in Topeka and was chronicled in a series of articles in The Topeka Capital-Journal about licensed medical personnel whose conduct raised regulatory questions for the state. The new petition outlining evidence against Geenens [...]
New Jersey Psychiatrist Chowdhury Azam accused of touching a patient’s breast – cost him: $15,000
Courier News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) Appeals court OKs suspending license of Edison doctor accused of touching patient By Gene Racz February 8, 2011 The state appeals court Monday upheld a decision by the state Board of Medical Examiners to suspend the license of an Edison psychiatrist for one year and place him on probation for another four years for touching the breast of a patient he was treating for substance abuse. Following hearings last August, the board determined that Dr. Chowdhury Azam inappropriately asked a female patient to show him a scar on her breast, massaged her neck and shoulders, [...]
Edwin Hall, Albuquerque psychiatrist, surrenders license – six patients died of overdoses
Albuquerque Journal Med board: ABQ doctor tied to six patient deaths By Marie C. Baca July 4th, 2018 Psychiatrist Edwin Hall An Albuquerque psychiatrist has agreed to surrender his medical license amid allegations that six patients who received treatment at his practice died of overdoses and that an individual without a medical license was permitted to treat patients at his practice. The surrender marks the culmination of a series of New Mexico Medical Board actions involving Edwin B. Hall dating back to 2016. Hall’s psychiatry practice, now closed, was at 1709 Girard NE. Molly Schmidt-Nowara, an attorney with Freedman [...]
UCLA Psych Sued for Killing Former Model with Psych Drugs – Bilking her Fortune
Associated Press When former model and philanthropist Phyllis Harvey died last year at the age of 59, little note was taken. Brief paid obituaries appeared in Los Angeles and her hometown paper in North Carolina.Alexander BystritskyUCLA Psychiatrist There was no mention of how she died. Nothing was said about her struggle with alcoholism and mental illness. And there was no reference to one of the final projects she helped fund with nearly a half million dollars. Those details now figure prominently in a medical board complaint and wrongful death lawsuit claiming her psychiatrist coaxed $490,000 in research funding from [...]
Struck-off ‘predatory’ psychiatrist named
"Struck off" is a British term used regarding someone such as a doctor or lawyer who is no longer allowed to work in their profession. I think we should adopt it here in America. Struck off! ABC NEWS (Australia) Struck-off 'predatory' psychiatrist named By Gordon Taylor Aug 17, 2012 Psychiatrist Hugh Veness A Canberra psychiatrist struck off for making sexual advances on a patient and over prescribing her drugs can now be named. The ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal this week lifted a non-publication order that prevented Dr Hugh Veness from being named. Earlier this year the tribunal found [...]
Well Known Harvard Psychiatrist Resigns After Sex Allegation
Psychiatrist David B. Herzog Boston Globe Harvard eating-disorder specialist gives up license By Liz Kowalczyk October 18, 2012 A well-known Harvard psychiatrist who treats patients with eating disorders and has written textbooks on the topic has surrendered his medical license after officials found he engaged in sexual misconduct with a bulimic patient. The Board of Registration in Medicine accepted the resignation of Dr. David B. Herzog Wednesday. The board said that after hearing from the woman who had been his patient, it took “the most serious, immediate, and impactful action allowed by law in order to protect the public [...]
William Braden, Rhode Island Psychiatrist, gets 3 years probation for improper drug prescribing
Providence Journal R.I. psychiatrist disciplined for improperly prescribing drugs By G. Wayne Miller May 29, 2018 Psychiatrist William Braden PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The state Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline has placed Dr. William Braden, a psychiatrist who practiced at Butler Hospital, on three years’ probation for improperly prescribing medications. This is the second time in five years that the Department of Health has reprimanded Braden. In the current case, the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline after an investigation also ordered Braden to “cease prescribing opioids, specifically schedule II and III opioids” with the exception of buprenorphine, used [...]