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Herbert L. Tannenbaum,
Seaford, NY
Profession: Public Accountant; Lic. (Enrollment)
No. 006706; Cal. No. 19218
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application to surrender license
(enrollment) granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act.
Jeremiah Joseph Lyons, Cortland, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 066747; Cal. No. 18448
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension until terminated as set forth in
consent order application - upon termination of suspension,
probation 2 years to commence upon return to practice, $5,000
fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to disclose a criminal conviction on an application for
licensure, failing to disclose a conviction on an application for
biennial registration, and having been charged with Driving While
Intoxicated.
Emanuele Bruno, Merrick,
NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 060486; Cal. No. 19023
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: $500 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the
Second Degree, a class A misdemeanor.
Joseph Barsuk, Jr.,
Churchville, NY
Profession: Chiropractor; Lic. No. 006360; Cal.
No. 19214
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
willful physical abuse of a patient.
Henry Lieb Boriskin, Mahopac,
NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 023913; Cal. No.
19262
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also June 1994, December 1997 and June 1999)
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
violating a term of probation by not paying his fine in full.
Arcady Sniper, Brooklyn,
NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 038306; Cal. No.
18465
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$2,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of failing
to maintain records that accurately reflected the evaluation and
treatment of two patients.
Vikramjit Anand, Ithaca,
NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 044777; Cal. No.
18927
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also January 2006)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 3 year suspension with leave to apply, after
one year, for a stay of execution of any unserved portion of said
suspension as set forth in consent order application - upon
service of 3 year suspension or upon stay of execution of any
unserved portion of said suspension, probation 2 years to
commence upon return to practice, $4,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
extracting healthy teeth without medical justification and
dispensing inordinate amounts of controlled substances without
medical justification.
David Lee Weinstein, Albany,
NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 035397; Cal. No.
19014
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $10,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
failing to use scientifically accepted infection prevention
techniques and failing to maintain adequate records.
Robert Wee, Jamaica, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 032347; Cal. No.
19070
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of failing
to accurately record treatment rendered, incorrectly billing for
treatment rendered and failing to have adequate treatment
records.
Edward W. O'Heron,
Hornell, NY
Profession: Land Surveyor; Lic. No. 049280; Cal.
No. 19248
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of failing
to perform adequate research, failing to reference existing
buildings on the map and failing to properly establish a
right-of-way on the property in question.
Adam Patrick Sanford, New
York, NY
Profession: Massage Therapist; Lic. No. 012100;
Cal. No. 19071
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension for not less than 4 months and
until terminated as set forth in consent order application - upon
termination of suspension, probation 3 years.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
improperly touching and draping a massage therapy patient.
Maxine E. Mears-Clarke,
Bronx, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
218514; Cal. No. 15717
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of:
administering a medication to a patient although the physical
condition of the patient made the administration of it improper,
failing to check with the patient's physician before
administering the medication; administering the medication to the
patient whom appeared to be asleep, or unconscious, or
unresponsive; and after administering the medication failing to
attempt to resuscitate said patient and or seek assistance from
others to revive and or save the patient's life. She was also
found guilty in 1994 of having been convicted of the crime,
Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the Second Degree, a
class A misdemeanor and submitting to the Division of
Professional Licensing Services, a license application which
stated that she had never been convicted of a crime in any state,
whereas, in truth and fact, and as respondent well knew, she had
been convicted of a felony, to wit, Title 18 U.S. Code, Section
656, in the Southern District of New York.
Charles Joseph Hartz,
Malone, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 232502, 466060; Cal. Nos. 17561,
17562
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also June 1997)
Action: Application to surrender licenses
granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
failing to notify a patient's physician of a decrease in the
patient's blood saturation level and flushing a catheter with
tap water.
Catherine A. Hughes a/k/a Catherine A.
Misik, Chester, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
211598; Cal. No. 18453
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also July 1998)
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of failing
to maintain adequate patient records.
Barbara T. Copanas, Utica,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 278601; Cal. No. 18715
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also September 1996)
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
having been convicted of Attempted Burglary in the Second
Degree.
Arlene Phipps, Jamaica,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
180317; Cal. No. 18880
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Forgery, a class E felony; Petit Larceny, a
class A misdemeanor; and Attempted Petit Larceny, a class B
misdemeanor and failing to disclose said criminal convictions on
registration applications.
Ayham Ayoub Zorekiat,
Anaheim, CA
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 472593; Cal. No. 19115
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been found guilty of professional misconduct by another
state's disciplinary agency.
Helen A. Nwachukwu a/k/a Helen A.
Nwachuku, St. Albans, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 247875; Cal. No. 19116
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Conspiracy to Defraud the Social Security
Administration and Other Private Insurance Companies.
Elaine Kathleen Smith,
Hopkinton, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
225911; Cal. No. 19239
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also December 1996)
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
violating a term of probation by not taking certain
coursework.
Jaems Fricks, Toms River,
NJ
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 174243, 379664; Cal. Nos. 19290,
19291
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application to surrender licenses
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
obtaining by fraudulent means a controlled substance from a
hospital stock for his own use.
Anne H. Ahigian a/k/a Anne Ahigian a/k/a
Anne E. Ahigian, Greenwich, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 373998; Cal. No. 18385
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed,
probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
violated Article Thirty-three of the Public Health Law by he
Commissioner of Health, by having diverted injectable and oral
narcotic drugs from her employer hospital. The Controlled
substance included Demerol, Morphine, Percocet and
Hydrocodone.
Patricia Stagl Straub a/k/a Patricia Marie
Straub, Kings Park and Smithtown, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 078170, 267369; Cal. Nos. 18700,
18701
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 1 year suspension, execution of last 9 months of said
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Attempted Petit Larceny, a class B
misdemeanor.
Noreen Rappaport, Staten
Island, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 294219; Cal. No. 18823
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed,
probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance
in the Seventh Degree, a class A misdemeanor.
Ellen Jean Basta a/k/a Ellen J.
Basta, Liverpool, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 227281, 488209; Cal. Nos. 18874,
18869
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Driving While Intoxicated, an unclassified
misdemeanor.
Christine Walker, Lithonia,
GA
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 447773; Cal. No. 17370
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year to commence if and when return to
practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of gross
negligence as a result of crushing calcium tablets and mixing
them with potassium chloride to administer intravenously.
Adrienne M. Darrell,
Roosevelt, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
125208; Cal. No. 18076
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $750 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
committing acts constituting the crimes of Driving While
Intoxicated and Attempted Aggravated Harassment in the Second
Degree.
Patricia Ann Lehman, Miller
Place, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 471847; Cal. No. 18153
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also September 2006)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension until terminated as set forth in
consent order application - upon termination of suspension,
probation 2 years to commence if and when return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
diverting narcotics.
Melinda M. Cambe, Holbrook,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 166791, 365363; Cal. Nos. 18472,
18473
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 3 year suspension with leave to apply for
early termination, after service of 1 year of suspension, as set
forth in consent order application - upon service or termination
of suspension, probation 3 years.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
leaving a Monitor Room without first securing a replacement and
not doing a physical assessment of her patient.
Linda L. Boerner, Wayland,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
131904; Cal. No. 18604
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension until terminated as set forth in
consent order application - upon termination of suspension,
probation 2 years to commence upon return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been
charged with Assault in the Second Degree, a class D felony.
Lamine Sakho, New York,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
240970; Cal. No. 18740
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of last 21
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of leaving
a quadriplegic patient, for whom he was supplying home health
care, alone without first securing someone to take his place.
Ellen Jane Monohan, West Sand
Lake, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
229120; Cal. No. 18794
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension with leave to apply for a
stay of execution of any unserved portion of said suspension as
set forth in consent order application - upon service or stay of
execution of unserved portion of said suspension, probation 2
years to commence upon return to practice, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
administering an excessive dose of Roxanol, making medication
errors, practicing in an unsafe manner and maintaining inadequate
records.
Hae Shim, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 229768; Cal. No. 18838
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
twice infusing a patient with the wrong blood type.
Helen Angela Chmielewski,
Syracuse, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 212109; Cal. No. 18889
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of leaving
her assigned shift without authorization and making medication
errors.
Marianne M. Jensen,
Leesville, LA
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 395749; Cal. No. 18894
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension in certain area until terminated
as set forth in consent order application, probation 2 years to
commence upon return to practice, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
committing medication and charting errors.
Amelita C. Iniego, Hollis,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 268134; Cal. No. 18902
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
recording false information in a patient's record.
Todd D. Newton, South Glens
Falls, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 468451; Cal. No. 18953
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also September 2003)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
revealing personally identifiable facts regarding patients
without consent of the patients.
Margaret C. Lozano,
Watervliet, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 276720; Cal. No. 18961
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of last 20
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years to commence upon
return to practice.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
diverting controlled substances for her own use.
Felicidad Kiamko Perez, Fresh
Meadows, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 359870; Cal. No. 18983
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
willfully making a report to the medical examiner, which was
false. The false report indicated that an apnea monitor was used
although it had not been used.
Kristine Lyon, Homer, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 459104; Cal. No. 19007
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of failing
to properly utilize oxygen therapy equipment.
Hedda Nevida Canty, Syracuse,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
241842; Cal. No. 19045
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of last 23
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years to commence upon
return to practice.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
having been convicted of the crime Petit Larceny, a class A
misdemeanor.
Margaret King, Garden City,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 196198; Cal. No. 19046
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 22
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of forging
the signature of a doctor to three (3) prescriptions for cough
medicine.
Barbara H. Ustin, Kent Lakes,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 277264; Cal. No. 19049
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also February 2007)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Driving While Intoxicated.
Barbara Ellen Tupper a/k/a Barbara
Lapoint, Russell, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 247000, 497032; Cal. Nos. 19065,
19066
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
committing approximately seven medication errors/omissions.
Susan Ann Male, West Chester,
PA
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
261074; Cal. No. 19073
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years to commence upon return to practice,
$250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of four
medication errors.
Patricia A. Peppin, Brushton,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
175405; Cal. No. 19081
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension with leave to apply for a
stay of execution of any unserved portion of said suspension as
set forth in consent order application - upon service or stay of
execution of any unserved portion of the aforesaid suspension,
probation 2 years to commence upon return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
neglecting to document administered medications.
Edward Donald Martin
Carswell, Rochester, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
240471; Cal. No. 19096
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth
Degree.
Susan J. Johnson, Hornell,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 450264; Cal. No. 19124
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension for a minimum period of 1 year
and until terminated as set forth in consent order application -
upon termination of suspension, probation 2 years to commence
upon return to practice, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of writing
a prescription for a controlled substance for her own use and
forging the signature of a doctor.
Patricia Farr, Glen Cove,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
223310; Cal. No. 19159
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
delegating professional responsibility to a person not qualified
to perform them.
Patricia Connors, Malverne,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 232874; Cal. No. 19247
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
wasting controlled substances without a witness, failing to
document the administration of medication, signing out medication
when there was no physician's order and failing to properly
dispose of syringes.
Yolette Claude, Amityville,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 503784; Cal. No. 18708
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for summary suspension be
granted.
Summary: Licensee was summarily suspended
pending disciplinary panel review and final Board of Regents
action.
Yves B. Descorbeth, Hollis,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 503943; Cal. No. 18994
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also October 2002)
Action: Application for summary suspension be
granted.
Summary: Licensee was summarily suspended
pending disciplinary panel review and final Board of Regents
action.
Annie Fleary, Brooklyn,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
181563; Cal. No. 19107
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also April 1999)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of the last
18 months stayed, probation 2 years, fine $5,000.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of falsely
indicating on her application for licensure as a registered
professional nurse in the State of New York, that she had
received an Associate Nursing Degree.
Monique Jean-Paul, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
228560; Cal. No. 18771
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of the last
20 months stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of falsely
indicating on her application for licensure as a registered
professional nurse in the State of New York that she had received
an Associate Degree in Nursing.
Constant Maignan, Cambria
Heights, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
180259; Cal. No. 18711
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also April 1999)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of the last
18 months stayed, probation 2 years, fine $1,000.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of falsely
indicating on her application for licensure as a registered
professional nurse in the State of New York that she had received
an Associate Nursing Degree and obtaining the license based on
said fraudulent representations.
Louis Philippe Maisonneuve,
South Ozone Park, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Lic. No.
237791; Cal. No. 19106
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Annulment of licensed practical nurse
license.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of falsely
indicating on his application for licensure as a licensed
practical nurse in the State of New York that he had received a
degree in nursing.
Myrlande Michel, Brooklyn,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 503908; Cal. No. 18712
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also January 2005)
Action: Application for summary suspension be
granted.
Summary: Licensee was summarily suspended
pending disciplinary panel review and final Board of Regents
action.
Nazir Ahmed Shaikh, Jamaica
Estates, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 036603; Cal.
No. 18750
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a class C
felony, and Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a class D
felony.
Napapan Uttaraponk, Bronx,
NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 029705; Cal.
No. 19074
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
failing to recognize that a physician's order for an infant
patient exceeded the dosage for an infant patient, and failing to
check the dosage in the standards texts.
Pamela Marie Browne, St.
James, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 033215; Cal.
No. 19086
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of placing
the wrong directions on a prescription label, which directions,
if followed would result in a danger to the health of the
patient.
Jo Nonino S. Banez, Jamaica,
NY
Profession: Physical Therapist; Lic. No. 016152;
Cal. No. 18960
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of moral
unfitness
Ira S. Weisenthal, Plainview,
NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 002802; Cal.
No. 18789
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also April 1997)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 20
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $7,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
practicing the profession of podiatry while his license was
suspended.
Devan Neal Lax, Brooklyn,
NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 005204; Cal.
No. 18818
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 22
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of
submitting a fraudulent document indicating malpractice insurance
coverage that in fact did not exist.
Ronald J. Peters, Greenwich,
NY
Profession: Veterinarian; Lic. No. 003963; Cal.
No. 19048
Regents Action Date: April 24, 2001 (see also October 2007)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Offering a False Instrument for Filing and
Petit Larceny.