New York State Education
Department
Office of the
Professions
Summaries of Regents Actions on Professional
Misconduct and Discipline
February 18, 1994
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Chiropractic - Dentistry - Nursing - Ophthalmic
Dispensing - Pharmacy -
Podiatry - Public Accountancy - Veterinary Medicine
Chiropractic
Charles R.
Solano, Indianapolis, IN
Profession: Chiropractor; Lic. No. 001636; Cal.
No. 14189
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to make records available to a patient upon request.
Charles R. Solano, D.C. and
Peggy A. Grabinski-Solano, D.C., P.C.; Yonkers,
NY
Profession: Chiropractic; Cal. No. 14190
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to make records available to a patient upon request.
Dentistry
Gilbert Y. Kim,
Elmhurst, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 037981; Cal. No.
14427
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, 50 hours of public
service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of giving
a patient a previously used cup.
Nursing
Margaret E.
Thrasher, Fulton, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
127587; Cal. No. 9814
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 18 month suspension and thereafter,
probation 18 months under various terms to commence to be served
upon return to practice.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of
failing to correctly administer medications on several occasions
and of numerous charging errors.
Wayne Sparling,
Walton, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 183131, 392304; Cal. Nos. 12144,
12143
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 1 year suspension, to be followed by
probation 1 year, 100 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of
having wilfully, verbally, and physically abused a patient and
having referred an infant patient to another facility without
assessing the patient's condition.
Lorraine C. Brisotti a/k/a
Lorraine C. DiPalermo, Harriman, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 401526; Cal. No. 13345
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994 (see also
March 1998)
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, at which time probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of
having been convicted of Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, a
Class E Felony and Issuing Bad Checks, a Class B Misdemeanor.
Suzanne M. Evans,
Utica, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 147859, 338981; Cal. Nos. 13747,
13748
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994 (see also
July 1995)
Action: Suspension until successfully completes
a course of treatment; upon termination of suspension, probation
2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of the charge
of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Seventh
Degree, a Class A Misdemeanor.
Sharon Parker a/k/a Sharon R.
Worthington-Parker a/k/a Sharon R.
Parker-Worthington; Cambria Heights, NY; Laurelton,
NY; Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
195120; Cal. No. 14029
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 3 year suspension, execution of last 2
years of suspension stayed at which time probation for last 2
years, $500 fine, 50 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of violating
the terms of probation that were imposed under Order #12751.
Elizabeth A. Maroone a/k/a
Elizabeth A. Haumesser, Hamburg, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 415839; Cal. No. 14163
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 3 year suspension, execution of last 2
years of suspension stayed, probation 3 years, $500 fine, 100
hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of the charge
of Petit Larceny, a Class A Misdemeanor.
Gerard Astudillo
Atos, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 216837, 439201; Cal. Nos. 13925,
13926
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 24 month suspension, execution of last
23 months of suspension stayed, probation 24 months, $5,000
fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
falsifying immigration status on a nursing school application and
falsifying immigration status on a hospital employment
application.
Gloria A. Beattie,
Staten Island, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
125288; Cal. No. 13991
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, 25 hours of public
service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of falsely
stating, on a patient's record, that she had performed a
glucose test.
Marie B. Murphy,
Rego Park, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
095721; Cal. No. 14008
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of eleven
charges of incorrectly indicating on a Medication Administration
Record that an administration had been made.
Thelma C.
Chamberlain, Fort Plain, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 388988; Cal. No. 14018
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to follow hospital policies and procedures regarding the measure
that a nurse supervisor should take in cases involving the
alleged impairment by drugs or alcohol of its employees.
Natalie A. Young,
Niagara Falls, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
203415; Cal. No. 14048
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994 (see also
November 1999)
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years under various terms to
commence if and when return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to render proper tracheostomy care to two patients.
Rony Archange Perard,
Jamaica, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic.
No.197482; Cal. No. 14119
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
25 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of having
been convicted of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth
Degree.
Melanie Dawne West a/k/a Melanie
Wakefield, Albany, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
197912; Cal. No. 14226
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
against charges of failing to perform four treatments and
recording that the treatments were done.
Barbara Bullock,
Rocky Mount, NC
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
052792; Cal. No. 14248
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Suspension until fit to practice; Upon
termination of suspension, probation 2 years under various terms
to commence upon return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
practicing the profession of nursing while her ability to
practice was impaired by alcohol and of charges of Attempted
Assault in the Second Degree.
Valerie Drake,
North Babylon, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 130578, 326568; Cal. Nos. 14349,
14350
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years under various terms to
become effective and to commence upon return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
administering medication to a patient on seven occasions, but
failing to indicate on the medication Administration Record for
said patient that she had done so.
Hilda Shanley,
Cadyville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
133349; Cal. No. 14397
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to administer blood sugar tests to ten patients and recording
that the tests had been done.
Ophthalmic
Dispensing
Frank C. Hornbeck,
Hornell, NY
Profession: Ophthalmic Dispenser; Lic. No.
001794; Cal. No. 12872
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $1,500 fine, 100 hours of
public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to exercise appropriate supervision over a dispenser of
eyeglasses.
Pharmacy
Mohammad Saleem,
Staten Island, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 032728; Cal.
No. 9686
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: No penalty imposed.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of
failing to indicate the manufacturer and distributor on two
prescriptions for generic products; filling 5 non-controlled
substance prescriptions pursuant to an interim physician's
order which did not contain any signature of the prescriber; and
dispensing one controlled substance when the interim
physician's order failed to contain the age of the
patient.
Rodney Bookman a/k/a Harvey
Bookman, Howard Beach, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 031509; Cal.
No. 13239
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Suspension until successfully
participates in a course of therapy and treatment. Upon
termination of suspension, probation 2 years under various terms
to commence upon return to practice, $250 fine, 25 hours of
public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of having
been convicted of Attempted Criminal Possession of a Controlled
Substance, Criminal Possession of a Weapon and Criminal
Possession of a Controlled Substance and two counts of Possession
of a Controlled Dangerous Substance.
Celso A. Bilbao,
Carle Place, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 030429; Cal.
No. 13990
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine,
probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of giving
the wrong directions for use on a medication dispensed to a
patient and permitting a dispensed medication to be delivered to
the wrong patient.
Arnold Adoff, Monsey,
NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 024704; Cal.
No. 14180
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994 (See also
July 2005)
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
dispensing a greater strength of a drug in a volume greater than
called for in a prescription.
John E. Malke,
Hamburg, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 025574; Cal.
No. 14301
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
dispensing the wrong drug to a patient.
Podiatry
Jack Cohen a/k/a Jack J.
Cohen, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 003906; Cal.
No. 13579
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994 (see also
April 1999)
Action: 3 year suspension, execution of last 30
months of suspension stayed, probation 3 years, $10,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of
having been convicted of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a
Class C Felony; sixty counts of Offering a False Instrument for
Filing in the First Degree, a Class E Felony; and twenty-one
counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, a
Class E Felony.
Public
Accountancy
Paul R. Doran,
Rochester, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 025932; Cal. No. 14087
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994 (see also
June 2002)
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
wilfully failing to register with the New York State Education
Department.
Veterinary
Medicine
Louis A. Grasso,
South Salem, NY
Profession: Veterinary Medicine; Lic. No.
005827; Cal. No. 13928
Regents Action Date: February 18, 1994
Action: 3 year suspension, execution of last 18
months of suspension stayed at which time probation for said last
18 months, 100 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charges of
three counts of Unlawfully, Intentionally and Knowingly
Distributing and Possessing with Intent to Distribute Anabolic
Steroids.
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Last Updated: September 7, 2005
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