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Summaries of Regents Actions on Professional
Misconduct and Discipline
December 17, 2004
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Architecture - Dentistry - Engineering and Land
Surveying - Nursing - Pharmacy - Public Accountancy -
Respiratory Therapy - Social
Work - Veterinary Medicine
Architecture
Daniel Louis
Baccari, Lancaster, NY
Profession: Architect; Lic. No. 022892; Cal. No.
21731
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 month actual suspension, 11 month stayed
suspension, probation 1 year, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been convicted of Grand Larceny in the 4th Degree.
Dentistry
Yelena Tkachenko,
North Woodmere, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 048914; Cal. No.
20629
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 18 month actual suspension, 18 month stayed
suspension, probation 3 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been convicted of Unauthorized Practice of a Profession,
and Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the 1st Degree,
both class E felonies.
Adrian P. Wizes,
Lake George, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 044121; Cal. No.
19843
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004 (see also
July 1998)
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of willfully
physically abusing several female patients; behaving in a manner
which evidences moral unfitness to practice the profession of
dentistry; making inappropriate and sexually suggestive comments
and deliberately lifted the dental bib of a female patient and
staring at said patient’s breasts; and violating the terms
of probation imposed by a previous disciplinary action imposed by
the Board of Regents.
Engineering and Land Surveying
Roderick N. Cobane,
Schuyler Falls, NY
Profession: Land Surveyor; Lic. No. 049544; Cal.
No. 20372
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 24 month suspension, execution of last 12 months of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of submitting
final maps with an embossed seal to clients that did not depict a
legend or closed traverses, and not retaining records of his work
for another client for at least six years.
Michael Dubem Iwuchukwu a/k/a
Michael D. Iwuchukwu, Poughkeepsie, NY
Profession: Professional Engineer, Lic. No.
071795; Cal. No. 21834
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, probation 2 years,
$1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been convicted of Driving While Intoxicated and,
subsequent to said conviction, falsely answering “no”
on his re-registration application to the question regarding the
existence of any convictions since he had last registered as a
professional engineer in the State of New York.
William C. Mack,
Ocean Beach, NY
Profession: Professional Engineer; Lic. No.
066354; Cal. No. 21661
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, probation 2 years,
$5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
failing to maintain, for at least six years, a thorough written
evaluation of plans that were not prepared by him or by an
employee under his direct supervision, and to which he had
affixed his signature and professional seal.
Nursing
Susan A. Albano a/k/a Susan
Jacobi, Depew, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 450074; Cal. No. 21509
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
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,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
failing to maintain accurate patient records.
Amy Caroline
Carter, Booneville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
270044; Cal. No. 21391
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1 year,
$250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
failing to administer medications to several patients.
Lori-Anne A. Cross,
Schenectady, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
256691; Cal. No. 21610
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1 year,
$250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
committing medication errors.
Janis Dorothy
Curry, West Babylon, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
221367; Cal. No. 21584
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1
year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
administering 500 mg. of Dilantin to a patient three times daily
instead of one daily dose.
Qi Ding,
Douglaston, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
256589; Cal. No. 21599
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 3 month actual suspension, 21 month stayed
suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
filing an application for licensure and first registration, which
falsely stated that she had completed a nursing program in
China.
Elizabeth Fields a/k/a Elizabeth
Ann Vosburgh, Durham, NC
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 352629; Cal. No. 21822
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 3 month actual suspension, 21 month stayed
suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been found guilty by the North Carolina Board of Nursing
of professional misconduct.
Debra Ann French,
Rochester, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
182677; Cal. No. 21256
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
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 licensee’s return to
practice, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
diverting Demerol for her own use.
Jan Greenfield,
Greenwood Lake, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 449984; Cal. No. 21590
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension for not less than 6 months and
until terminated as set forth in consent order application
– upon termination of suspension, probation 2 years to
commence upon licensee’s return to practice, 100 hours of
public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
stealing money from a patient.
Deborah Hampson,
Port Jefferson Station, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
251936; Cal. No. 21638
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to being convicted of
Robbery in the 2nd Degree, a class C felony, Possession of a
Forged Instrument in the 2nd Degree, a class D felony, and
Possession of a Forged Instrument in the 3rd Degree, a class A
misdemeanor.
Mary Jo Izzo,
Rochester, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
086543; Cal. No. 21091
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 1 year suspension, execution of last 11 months of
suspension stayed, probation 11 months.
Summary: Licensee was found to be guilty of
having been convicted of Petit Larceny, a class A
misdemeanor.
Stacey Lynn Keck,
Horseheads, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
261842; Cal. No. 21603
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, probation 2 years,
$250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been convicted of Attempted Assault in the 3rd Degree.
Vicki Leidig,
Levittown, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
249395; Cal. No. 21593
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1
year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
failing to question an order for administration of 500 mg. of
Dilantin to a patient three times daily instead of one daily
dose.
Stacey Lynn
McBride-Adkison, Nashville, TN and Bartlesville,
OK
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 512705; Cal. No. 21750
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 3 month actual suspension, 21 month stayed
suspension, probation 2 years to commence if and when licensee
returns to practice.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
submitting three inaccurate time sheets to her employer for
payment that included three days that she did not work in August
2003.
Merissa Milillo a/k/a Merissa
Ann Dillingham, Oakdale, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
269311; Cal. No. 21349
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, probation 2
years.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
failing to pick up orders and changes in orders and administering
the wrong dose of medication.
Laurie A. Miller,
Little Valley, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 336358; Cal. No. 21647
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1 year,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
improperly disposing of confidential patient records and blank
prescription pads.
Teresa Miller a/k/a Teresa A.
Miller, Islip Terrace, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 161110, 360539; Cal. Nos. 21807,
21806
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application to surrender licenses
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to being convicted of
the crime of Operating a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence
of Alcohol.
Kathryn M. Monaco a/k/a Kathryn
M. Crawford, Bloomingburg, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 140668, 328522; Cal. Nos. 21666,
21667
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension for not less than 6 months and
until terminated as set forth in consent order application
– upon termination of suspension, probation 1 year to
commence if and when licensee returns to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
practicing the profession while her ability to practice was
impaired by fibromyalgia and other physically disabling
conditions.
Daniel J. Nicholas,
Sr., Horseheads, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
248793; Cal. No. 21325
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1 year,
$250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
inaccurate record keeping.
Betty L. Page a/k/a Betty L.
Moffitt, Harpursville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 187621, 408912; Cal. Nos. 21255,
21608
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1 year,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
committing medication administration and documentation
errors.
John Stephen
Rinaldo, Oxnard, CA
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 537893; Cal. No. 21735
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 month actual suspension, 11 month stayed
suspension, probation 1 year to commence if and when licensee
returns to practice.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
documenting a false glucose value for a patient and failing to
administer the correct number of units of insulin to said
patient.
Santiago Rodriguez,
Albany, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
253031; Cal. No. 21756
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
253031; Cal. No. 21756; Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1 year,
$250 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
failing to administer one medication and to follow
physician’s orders.
Gregory Joseph
Sieverding, Peru, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 514608; Cal. No. 21678
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension – upon termination
of suspension, probation 1 year to commence upon licensee’s
return to practice, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charges of
failing to disclose information on his application for licensure;
providing false information on a registration application; having
been found guilty of professional misconduct by the State of
Vermont; and making medication and documentation errors.
Carmen P. Simpkins,
Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
216411; Cal. No. 21344
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found to be guilty of
having been convicted of knowingly and intentionally importing a
quantity of cocaine and knowingly and intentionally possessing
with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine (specifically 500
grams or more of a substance containing cocaine).
Stacia Smith,
Babylon, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 501673; Cal. No. 20641
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 month actual suspension, 22 month stayed
suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been convicted of Attempted Possession of a Controlled
Substance in the 3rd Degree, a class C felony.
Janet Aline Stark,
Albany, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
092922; Cal. No. 21611
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1 year,
$250 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
documenting blood glucose tests she did not perform.
Michelle Lynn
Stephenson, South Glens Falls, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
257289; Cal. No. 21657
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, probation 2 years,
$250 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
having been found guilty by the Commissioner of Health of
diverting a controlled substance.
Karen Black
Thompson, Buffalo, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
233549; Cal. No. 21751
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, probation 1 year, $500
fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
leaving a patient unattended.
Karen E. Tripodi,
Newark, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
133637; Cal. No. 21330
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 2 year suspension, execution of last year of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found to be guilty of
having been convicted of Petit Larceny, a class A misdemeanor,
and Borrowing Personal Allowance Funds, a class A
misdemeanor.
Mariamma Varghese,
New Rochelle, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 305314; Cal. No. 21660
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, probation 2 years,
$2,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
administering the wrong medication while caring for one patient;
failing to notify the patient’s physician of the error;
failing to include an account of the incident in the nursing
notes for said patient; and not timely filing an incident report
regarding the matter.
Patty Ann Wallis,
Verona, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
248413; Cal. No. 21683
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004 (see also
March 2003 and June2004>)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, probation 1 year,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
willfully making and filing false reports in her re-registration
applications for the period of November 1,1999 to March 31, 2002
and the period of April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2005 by answering
“no” to the questions concerning whether, since she
had last registered, she was convicted of a crime, when, in truth
and in fact, she had been so convicted.
Pamela B. Westley,
Jamestown, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
099873; Cal. No. 21650
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 month actual suspension, 11 month stayed
suspension, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
failing to follow a physician’s order regarding ambulation
of a patient and left a patient unattended.
Ferdinand Zaldivar,
Kendall Park, NJ
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 457599; Cal. No. 21266
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 3 year suspension with leave to apply on or
after service of first 2 years of 3 year period of suspension for
a stay of any unserved period of suspension as set forth in
consent order application – upon service or stay of
execution of any unserved portion of suspension, probation 2
years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been found guilty by the New Jersey Board of Nursing of
professional misconduct.
Pharmacy
AAA Chemists, Ltd. d/b/a Eichler
Pharmacy, 97-02 101st Avenue, Ozone Park, NY
11416
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 019007; Cal. No.
21730
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application to surrender registration
granted.
Summary: Registrant admitted that in each of two
inspections, the pharmacy held for sale expired drugs, failed to
maintain a daily prescription log, and maintained the dispensing
area in an excessively cluttered fashion; and, that in one of the
inspections, the pharmacy held for sale misbranded drugs.
Robert A. Crystal,
Albany, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 033744; Cal.
No. 19334
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 6 month suspension, execution of last 5 months of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of negligence
on more then one occasion, by dispensing three substances,
knowing that the patient presented prescriptions for different
patient names, and that dispensing on those occasions deviated
from the standard of care of a licensed pharmacist in the State
of New York.
Kevin Ferry,
Bohemia, NY 11716
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 037459; Cal.
No. 20936
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004 (see also
June 2001)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension with leave to apply for
termination of suspension upon service of at least 6 months of
suspension and until terminated as set forth in consent order
application – upon service or early termination of
suspension, probation 3 years, $1,000 fine, 50 hours of public
service.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
aiding and abetting an unlicensed person to dispense drugs;
failing to correctly evaluate an order for potassium chloride for
an infant; failing to consult a patient’s medication
profile; failing to recognize a potentially dangerous and
possibly fatal drug interaction; failing to contact the
prescriber to clarify dose and verify and validate an order;
permitting an unlicensed person to perform activities requiring a
license including permitting said unlicensed person to mix
ingredients of potassium chloride; and, delegating to a pharmacy
technician the responsibility of compounding a patient-specific
intravenous solution.
Public Accountancy
Albert Isernio,
Huntington, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 036839; Cal. No. 21880
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest that he
committed acts constituting the Federal crimes of Falsifying
Income Tax Returns and Structuring Cash Deposits, both
felonies.
Frank J. Paccione,
New Hyde Park, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 045464; Cal. No. 21534
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension for not less than 3 months and
until terminated as set forth in consent order application
– upon termination of suspension, probation 3 years to
commence if and when licensee returns to practice, $1,000
fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been convicted of Attempt to Commit the Crime of
Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors (4 counts); Attempt to
Commit the Crime of Sodomy in the 2nd Degree (2 counts) and
Attempt to Commit the Crime of Endangering the Welfare of a
Child.
Respiratory Therapy
Gladwin Thornhill,
Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Respiratory Therapist; Lic. No.
001434; Cal. No. 21616
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 3 month actual suspension, 21 month stayed
suspension, probation 2 years, $1,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
failing to disclose a criminal conviction on his application for
licensure.
Social Work
Susan Lynn
Korzeniewski, Lyman, ME
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
039556; Cal. No. 21746
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, probation 2 years to
commence if and when licensee returns to practice.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
the charge of failing, in and about the year 1993, to timely
complete summaries for certain clients to whom she had rendered
professional social work services in the State of Maine.
Carlos C. Reyes,
East Amherst, NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
017144; Cal. No. 21764
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 3 month suspension, probation 1 year to
commence if and when licensee returns to practice, $1,000
fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of
having been convicted of Falsifying Business Records in the 1st
Degree.
Herbert Sklar,
Plainview, NY
Profession: Licensed Clinical Social Worker;
Lic. No. 007678; Cal. No. 21850
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to being convicted of
Grand Larceny in the 3rd Degree, a class D felony, on May 13,
2003.
Veterinary Medicine
Mitchell Robbins,
Buffalo Grove, IL
Profession: Veterinarian; Lic. No. 006389; Cal.
No. 21854
Regents Action Date: December 17, 2004
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, probation 2 years,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
having been found guilty by the Illinois Department of Regulation
of professional misconduct.
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