SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
“Sexual misconduct is particularly damaging to the reputation of psychiatry because the damages to patients which result are mental and emotional in nature. If psychiatry loses the confidence of society, its ability to pursue its mission will be damaged.”
American Psychiatric Association
Approved by the Board of Trustees
March 1993
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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,” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stephen Greer, Oklahoma VA Hospital Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Stephen Greer PRESS RELEASE Tulsa Man Sentenced To 21 Months For Tampering With Witness Thursday, October 25, 2018 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma VA Psychiatrist Inappropriately Involved With Patient MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stephen Lester Greer, age 58, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment and three years supervised release for Tampering With A Witness, Victim, Or Informant, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(b)(3). The charge arose from an investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs - [...]
John Katzenberg, Townsend Psychiatrist, License revoked
John Katzenberg Lowell Sun Well-known Townsend doctor’s license revoked September 12, 2018, Updated: July 11, 2019. By Scott Shurtleff -- Excerpt TOWNSEND — A well-known physician with a long-standing downtown practice has had his state medical license revoked, in part for having a romantic relationship with a patient, according to a press release from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. The decision to revoke Dr. John P. Katzenberg’s medical license was announced recently following a disciplinary decision by the board on Aug. 9. According to a final report of action, the Internal Medicine doctor “engaged in a romantic relationship [...]
Aviel Goodman, Saint Paul Psychiatrist, Child Porn
Aviel Goodman Press Release Saint Paul Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Receipt Of Child Pornography Friday, July 20, 2018 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of AVIEL LI GOODMAN, 62, to one count of receipt of child pornography. GOODMAN, who was initially charged on February 20, 2018, pleaded guilty earlier today before U.S. District Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to the defendant’s guilty plea and documents filed in court, on multiple occasions between March 1, 2015, and August 27, 2017, [...]