MEDIA
Clarence White, Syracuse Psychiatrist – license revoked for sex with patient
Clarence White Syracuse.com Syracuse psychiatrist accused of having sex with patient loses medical license By James T. Mulder January 14, 2020 -- Excerpt SYRACUSE, NY – The state has revoked the medical license of a Syracuse psychiatrist accused of having sex with a patient. Dr. Clarence White, 44, was working at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca in 2017 when he entered into an inappropriate relationship with a female patient he was treating, according to the state Board for Professional Medical Conduct. He asked the patient for her phone number, socialized with her, started a sexual relationship and gave her [...]
Noel Sardar, UK psychiatrist, “stalked patients”
South Wales Argus Noel Sardar sexually stalked two of his patients By Michael Jones January 15, 2020 -- Excerpt Psychiatrist Dr Noel Sardar, 45, made "sexually-motivated" advances to the two female patients in his care. Picture: Wales News Service A MARRIED doctor stalked and made "sexually-motivated" advances to two female patients in his car after checking confidential medical records. A court heard that dad-of-two Noel Sardar, from Newport, pretended to be working on night call to gain access to one woman's home - and bought the other alcohol to get her drunk. But one woman contacted the police [...]
Padmini Nagaraj, Kenner Psychiatrist, sentenced
PADMINI NAGARAJ Press Release Kenner Psychiatrist Sentenced In Scheme to Defraud Medicare by Soliciting and Receiving Kickback Payments for Medically Unnecessary Home Health Referrals Monday, January 13, 2020 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PADMINI NAGARAJ, age 62, a resident of Kenner, Louisiana was sentenced on January 9, 2020 by U.S. District Judge Barry W. Ashe to four years’ probation, which includes 250 hours of community service, in connection with her guilty plea to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. In addition, NAGARAJ was fined $10,000 [...]
Alexander Neumeister, Psychiatrist, Research Misconduct
Neumeister Medscape Psychiatrist Engaged in Research Misconduct, Says Gov't Watchdog By Ellie Kincaid and Ivan Oransky, MD December 30, 2019 -- Excerpt A former New York University School of Medicine, Langone Medical Center psychiatry researcher faked clinical data for research with federally funded grants worth millions of dollars, according to the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In studies of anorexia, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Alexander Neumeister, MD, "misrepresented the characteristics of the subjects entered in the research" using tactics such as "combining data from multiple subjects to represent single subjects to justify financial payments" and "changing and/or [...]
Marc Spelar, Milton psychiatrist, sentenced
Herald Dispatch Milton doctor gets 3 months in illicit prescription scheme --Excerpt HUNTINGTON — A former Milton psychiatrist has been sentenced to three months in prison and will be given the opportunity to continue to address his substance use disorder after admitting to writing illicit opioid prescriptions for his own gain. Marc Spelar, 37, previously pleaded guilty in the Southern District of West Virginia to one count of illegal drug distributions related to an April 2017 prescription written for Dextroamphetamine, a scheduled II drug. Spelar was one of 60 individuals, including 53 medical professionals, named in April as being [...]
Amina Rafi, UK psychiatrist, suspended after lying that she had cancer
Amina Rafi Daily Mail Doctor, 25, is suspended after lying that she had cancer to her bosses at Broadmoor Hospital where patients include the Yorkshire Ripper By Lara Keay December 12, 2019 -- Excerpt A junior doctor at Broadmoor Hospital who lied about having breast cancer has been banned from treating patients. Trainee psychiatrist Dr Amina Rafi, 25, told colleagues at the maximum security hospital she had the disease, was four years older than she was, and that she was a member of the Royal College of Physicians... At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester, she admitted dishonest [...]
Arvind Shah, Waterbury psychiatrist, slapped 10-year-old patient
Republican American Police: Waterbury-based psychiatrist slapped 10-year-old patient --Excerpt WATERBURY — A psychiatrist with a city-based practice is facing a felony charge in connection to allegedly slapping a young patient in his office, according to documents obtained Wednesday. Dr. Arvind Shah, 70, was charged earlier this month after an investigation of his interaction with a 10-year-old boy, according to police. Police say they were called to Shah’s office on Nov. 7 at about 3:40 p.m. The child’s mother and her husband were with the boy, who was suffering from “several emotional psychological diagnoses,” according to police. At some point [...]
Emad Bishai, Texas Psychiatrist, Arrested
Emad Bishai KHOU The Woodlands doctor arrested on charges related to 4 overdose deaths --Excerpt MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A Montgomery County doctor has been suspended amid a slew of charges related to the overdose deaths of four patients. Emad Mikhail Tewfik Bishai's medical license was suspended "after determining his continuation in the practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare," according to the Texas Medical Board. Several warrants were issued for Bishai's arrest earlier this month. He's facing four felony charges of prescribing controlled substances for other than medical purposes and five felony counts of practicing medicine [...]
Pierre Maillou, Quebec psychiatrist, guilty
Pierre Maillou CBC Mailloux guilty: College of Physicians November 9, 2009 -- Excerpt Controversial Quebec radio host and psychiatrist Pierre (Doc) Mailloux has been found guilty of 13 charges related to his medical practice. A disciplinary committee found Mailloux guilty of misdiagnosing patients and prescribing large doses of two antipsychotic drugs. The Quebec College of Physicians ruled he made hasty diagnostic judgments which he failed to revise when patients began experiencing dangerous side-effects. The side-effects included respiratory problems, motor and vocal difficulties, anxiety, vomiting, heart palpitations and confusion... The outspoken psychiatrist had been taken to task previously for making [...]
Prabakar Rajan Thomas, Melbourne psychiatrist, sentenced
Prabakar Rajan Thomas The Guardian Psychiatrist jailed for sexual assault faces second allegation By Lisa Martin September 3, 2019 -- Excerpt A former Melbourne psychiatrist sentenced to two years in jail for sexually assaulting a female patient is facing a further investigation from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Prabakar Rajan Thomas, 69, received a 14 month non-parole jail sentence in March for abusing a patient. The county court was told he had put his hands in the victim’s bra, asked about her masturbation habits and showed her graphic pornography. Ahpra is now investigating a separate complaint from another former [...]
Pikeville Psychiatrist – medical license restricted
Pikeville psychiatrist Lexington Herald Leader Pikeville psychiatrist accused of showing patient nude pictures of men he’s had sex with By Mike Stunson August 5, 2019 --Excerpt A Pikeville psychiatrist has been accused of showing a patient nude photos of men during a session earlier this year. As a result, the medical license for Jason Stamper has been restricted by the state’s Board of Medical Licensure for an indefinite period of time. Stamper practices at the Mountain Comprehensive Care Center in Pikeville. The mother of the patient, a permanently disabled adult, filed a grievance to the board in May that Stamper [...]
William Vicary, LA Psychiatrist, surrenders license
William Vicary Los Angeles Times Psychiatrist who admitted altering notes in Menendez brothers’ murder trial in the ’90s surrenders license --Excerpt A psychiatrist who caused an uproar in the 1990s when he admitted altering clinical notes in the infamous Menendez brothers’ murder trial has agreed to surrender his medical license over new allegations of wrongdoing, according to the Medical Board of California. The decision, which became effective last month, came after the state accused Dr. William Vicary of gross negligence, repeated negligent acts, prescribing without an appropriate exam, excessive prescribing and inadequate record keeping. The complaint, filed in November 2017, [...]
James Ryan, Psychiatrist – sexual misconduct with patients
James Ryan East Valley Tribune EV psychiatrist runs afoul of 2 medical boards By Jordan Houston June 18, 2019 -- Excerpt The way the medical boards of California and Arizona saw it before suspending him this month, East Valley psychiatrist Dr. James Matthew Crowley Ryan had other things in mind when three different women came to him for psychiatric care. Investigators for the California Attorney General’s office said: When one woman told the Gilbert resident, then practicing in the San Diego area, that she had had an extramarital affair, he “told her that she should have more affairs” – then [...]
Jacob McClean, South Florida Psychiatrist Arrested
Jacob McClean local10.com South Florida doctor arrested after dispensing meth to patients, DEA says Dr. Jacob McClean faces federal drug charges By Peter Burke - Local10.com Managing Editor, Neki Mohan - Anchor/Reporter June 17, 2019 -- Excerpt MIAMI - A South Florida doctor has been arrested on federal drug charges. Dr. Jacob McClean, 36, appeared in federal court Monday in Miami. The Pembroke Pines psychiatrist was arrested Friday by Drug Enforcement Administration agents. Federal authorities said McClean was illegally dispensing and using methamphetamine... Lambert said McClean was also writing prescriptions "for medications that are not medically necessary and are [...]
Robert Perez, Orange County Psychiatrist, sentenced
Robert Perez Orange County Register OC psychiatrist sentenced to prison for prescription drug sales scheme By Sean Emery June 17, 2019 -- Excerpt SANTA ANA — A Santa Ana-based psychiatrist who illegally gave out prescriptions for opioids and other drugs was sentenced Monday to 57 months in federal prison. Dr. Robert Tinoco Perez, 56, of Westminster, as part of a plea agreement admitted earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances... Guilford noted that Perez seemed to be focusing mainly on himself, rather than the wider impact of his actions. “Turn on the news at any [...]
Paul Fox, Danbury & NZ psychiatrist, Guilty of Sexual Assault
Paul Fox The New Zealand Herald Psychiatrist Paul Fox, who treated Adam Lanza and Waikato patients guilty of sexual assault --Excerpt An American psychiatrist who was employed by Waikato District Health Board after surrendering his licence in the US amid controversy over an affair with a young patient, has pleaded guilty to her sexual assault. Dr Paul Fox is facing 18 months in prison in his native country after pleading guilty in Danbury, Connecticut, to sexually assaulting the teenager in 2011. The 66-year-old is infamous for treating a teenaged Adam Lanza - who went on to fatally shoot 26 people [...]
James Ketchum, Psychiatrist – used LSD on Soldiers
James Ketchum Washington Post James Ketchum, who conducted mind-altering experiments on soldiers, dies at 87 By Harrison Smith June 4, 2019 -- Excerpt James S. Ketchum, an Army psychiatrist who studied the effects of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs on American soldiers, overseeing classified Cold War-era experiments that spurred a debate on medical ethics, died May 27 at his home in Peoria, Ariz. He was 87... ...initiatives were halted amid media reports and withering congressional hearings, during which the Edgewood project’s founder and director, Van Murray Sim, was criticized for failing to provide follow-up medical care for the 7,000 soldiers [...]
Arthur Kranz, Hobe Sound Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Arthur Kranz Press Release South Florida Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion and Disability Fraud Tuesday, April 30, 2019 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs Evaded Paying Taxes on Over $1.6 Million in Income Earned While Claiming to be Disabled A South Florida doctor residing in Hobe Sound, Florida, was sentenced to 51 months in prison yesterday for tax evasion, wire fraud, and Social Security disability fraud, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida. According to court documents [...]
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 [...]