New York State Education
Department
Office of the Professions
Summaries of Regents Actions on Professional Misconduct and
Discipline
January 14, 1994
Terms under which
this information is provided.
Chiropractic - Dentistry - Nursing - Ophthalmic Dispensing - Pharmacy -
Physical Therapy - Psychology - Public
Accountancy
Chiropractic
Marc Z. Marshall, Beechhurst,
NY
Profession: Chiropractor; Lic. No. 004370; Cal.
No. 14076
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated.
Matthew Iammateo, Staten
Island, NY
Profession: Chiropractor; Lic. No. 000836; Cal.
No. 14325
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of 23
months of suspension stayed, one month period of actual
suspension to commence on March 1, 1994 and conclude on March 31,
1994, probation 2 years under various terms, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of filing
false insurance claims.
Dentistry
Waguih A. Sidhom, Staten
Island, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 043273; Cal. No.
14037
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of
receiving a fee from a third party for the performance of
professional services.
Richard C. Rogoff, Bayside,
NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 019647; Cal. No.
14118
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
improperly prescribing and dispensing Demerol.
Jerome E. Triolo,
Jeffersonville, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 038637; Cal. No.
14323
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
permitting an unlicensed person to perform dental
prophylaxis.
Steven Marc Benefeld,
Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 036048; Cal. No.
14341
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of having
been convicted of Operating a Motor Vehicle Under the Influence
of Alcohol.
Stephen R. Berger, Pine Bush,
NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 019722; Cal. No.
14344
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
against a charge of grossly negligent conduct in the preparation
and insertion of a bridge in a patients mouth with grossly open
margins.
Nursing
Sonali S. Joshi, Syosset,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 250801; Cal. No. 11972
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of negligence
on more than one occasion involving care of two Dialysis Unit
patients.
John A. Mabanta, Ronkonkoma,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 254058; Cal. No. 13746
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest to charges of
failing to follow proper procedures at a psychiatric hospital
after being notified that a patient was off his ward and that the
patient's location was not known.
Laurel Olga Christy,
Highland, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 388822; Cal. No. 13777
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee addmitted to charges of
failure to administer medications on more than one occasion.
Sudha P. Pothuraj, Fresh
Meadows, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 432537; Cal. No. 14179
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to timely administer a medication to a patient and wilfully
filing a registration application for licensure as a registered
professional nurse which contained false information.
Maureen Joan Ryan, Troy,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 149590; Cal. No. 14194
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of
conduct in the profession that evidences moral unfitness.
Mary Paily, New York, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 304654; Cal. No. 14208
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of
committing six medication administration and charting errors.
Joyce M. Carlson, Warsaw,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 142960; Cal. No. 14215
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $750 fine.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
against charges of having been convicted of Conspiracy in the
Sixth Degree, a Class B Misdemeanor.
Gerald Allen Francisco,
Sidney, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 329148; Cal. No. 14308
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
against charge of failing to properly dispose of medications.
Barbara Theal Morris, North
Tonawanda, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 127909; Cal. No. 14310
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Probation currently serving under Order
No. 12148 be terminated, 2 year suspension, execution of last 23
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years under various
terms, 50 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
violating her term of probation.
Alicia R. Hoebeke, Hadley,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 434755; Cal. No. 14342
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994 (see also
July 2004)
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, 25 hours of public
service.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
against charges of having been convicted of Assault in the Third
Degree, a Class A Misdemeanor.
Deborah Beaudoin, East
Nassau, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
102610; Cal. No. 14343
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, 25 hours of public
service.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
against charges of failing to perform three treatments and
recording that the treatments were done.
Mary M. Sergeant, North Rose,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 093153, 341918; Cal. Nos. 14284,
14285
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Application to surrender licenses
granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of
making errors in medication administration.
Dorothy May Russell, Cambria
Heights, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 216760; Cal. No. 14370
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges that
she failed to assess two newborns at 12:30 a.m. and 1:00 a.m.,
although hospital policy called for newborns to be assessed every
half-hour for the first 24 hours of life and both newborns had
last been assessed at midnight.
Ophthalmic
Dispensing
James F. Marino, Hornell,
NY
Profession: Ophthalmic Dispenser; Lic. No.
005324; Cal. No. 12873
Regents Action Date: January 14, 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 an unlicensed person.
Pharmacy
Cottage Pharmacy, Inc.; 8223
Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury, NY 11797
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 014857; Cal. No.
14057
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: $1,000 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Retail pharmacy admitted to charges of
an employee pharmacist entering initials of the supervising
pharmacist in the daily record and on prescriptions the employee
pharmacist had filled, the supervising pharmacist failing to wear
a badge while on duty, and the pharmacy failing to post a price
list.
Kenneth Villani, Woodbury,
NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 029406; Cal.
No. 14058
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to sign the daily record for unfilled prescriptions, entering
initials on prescriptions he did not fill, failing to wear a
badge, and failing to conspicuously post a price list.
John E. Renna, East
Northport, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 028332; Cal.
No. 14059
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $750 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to sign or legibly initial prescriptions he dispensed.
Marvin A. Levine, Scarsdale,
NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 018644; Cal.
No. 14338
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
dispensing pursuant to a controlled substance prescription that
lacked the age of the patient.
Antonio Soares, Brooklyn,
NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 023633; Cal.
No. 14369
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Application to surrender license
granted, 100 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
intentionally and knowingly distributing cocaine.
Physical
Therapy
Leonard J. Vigliatore,
Brightwaters, NY
Profession: Physical Therapy, Lic. No. 005011;
Cal. No. 14410
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Application to surrender license
granted, $10,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of
Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud.
Psychology
Elizabeth E. Mintz,
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 000658; Cal.
No. 13840
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Suspension until fit to practice and
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.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of
practicing the profession of psychology while her ability to
practice was impaired by alcohol.
Public
Accountancy
Janine Newman, Rockville
Centre, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 044094; Cal. No. 13015
Regents Action Date: January 14, 1994
Action: Revocation, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of
willingly failing to register with the New York State Education
Department to practice as a Certified Public Accountant, and was
found guilty of charges of failing to return records to a client.
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Last Updated: November 3, 2004
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