Summaries of Regents Actions
On Professional Misconduct and Discipline*
February 2000
Audiology - Certified Public Accountancy - Certified Social Work - Chiropractic - Dentistry - Massage Therapy - Nursing - Ophthalmic Dispensing - Optometry - Pharmacy - Physical Therapy - Podiatry - Veterinary Medicine
Audiology
Carol Bass, Ithaca, NY
Profession: Audiologist; Lic. No. 000450; Cal.
No. 18191
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of delegating
professional responsibilities to a person when the licensee knew
or had reason to know that such person was not qualified by training,
by experience or by licensure, to perform them.
Certified Public Accountancy
Ralph K. Bazuro, Floral Park, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 045253; Cal. No. 17900
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation, $10,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Conspiracy to Evade the Collection of Income
Taxes and Bank Fraud.
Michael I. Schorr, Hopewell Junction, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
(Cert.) No. 023235; Cal. No. 18093
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Filing a Fictitious or Fraudulent Claim; Failing
to Surrender for Service of Sentence Pursuant to a Court Order;
and Obtaining Money by False and Fraudulent Pretenses, all Federal
crimes.
Ralph James Miele, North Babylon, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
(Cert.) No. 027817; Cal. No. 17548
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application to surrender certificate
granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
having been convicted of Filing False Financial Statements through
Wire Transmission.
Joseph G. Shanahan, New Rochelle, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
(Cert.) No. 027892; Cal. No. 17549
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud.
Isaac L. Goldstein, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 039357; Cal. No. 18034
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 24 month suspension, execution of last 18 months of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of the crime False Declarations before Grand Jury
or Court, a felony.
Leonard J. Almquist, Buffalo, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 031278; Cal. No. 17969
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Partial suspension in certain area until
terminated as set forth in consent order application, probation
2 years, $1,000 fine, 50 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
failing, in each of two years, to total the accounts payable
subsidiary ledger during the course of an audit. As a result,
licensee failed to discover that this account was materially
misstated on the financial statements.
Anatoly Osadchy, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 055028; Cal. No. 18247
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 19
months of suspension stayed, probation 24 months, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of issuing
an audit report without having an engagement letter, a management
representation letter, or written work papers showing audit planning,
the study and evaluation of internal controls, or assessment
of audit risk.
Certified Social Work
Noelene F. Smith a/k/a Noelene F. Williams a/k/a Noelene Fredrecka Williams a/k/a Noelene Fedricka Williams, Albany, NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
039492; Cal. No. 18057
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a class
D felony.
Peter Patrick Konrad, Saugerties, NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
014380; Cal. No. 18189
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, probation 2 years,
$2,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
offering a massage.
Eileen Lordahl, New York, NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
026640; Cal. No. 18262
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 having been convicted
of Driving While Intoxicated and Aggravated Unlicensed Operation
of a Motor Vehicle, unclassified misdemeanors.
Linda A. Pelosi, Port Jefferson Station, NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
031781; Cal. No. 18274
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $2,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of looking
for an apartment to share with a client in February 1998 and
failing to maintain a treatment record which accurately reflected
the evaluation and treatment of the client.
Chiropractic
George Meyer Mitzman a/k/a George M. Mitzman a/k/a George Mitzman, Little Neck, NY
Profession: Chiropractor; Lic. No. 005848; Cal.
No. 18120
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation
2 years, $2,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of the crime Petit Larceny, a class A misdemeanor.
Dentistry
David J. Davis a/k/a David Joseph Davis, Waterloo, IL
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 021414; Cal. No.
17888
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of mailing an explosive device with the intent
to kill and injure, a felony, and receipt and possession of an
unregistered firearm, to wit, an explosive device, a felony.
Allen Koral, Jericho, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 029532; Cal. No.
18099
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of two counts of Criminal Sale Of A Prescription
For A Controlled Substance, a class C felony; one count of Offering
A False Instrument For Filing in the First Degree, a class E
felony; and one count of Attempted Grand Larceny in the Third
Degree, a class E felony.
Robert Paul Yavel, Jamaica, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 023017; Cal. No.
17190
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also November
2001)
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 10 years to commence
if and when return to practice.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
the inappropriate sexual touching of a patient.
Santo Martin Farina, Flushing, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 020626; Cal. No.
17553
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $750 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
failure to properly complete root canal therapy.
Alfonse John Deluca, Atlantic City, NJ
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 031119; Cal. No.
18039
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of committing
a crime, Promoting Gambling in the Fourth Degree, under the law
of another jurisdiction which would have been a crime under New
York State Law.
Vito Frank Foto, Yonkers, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 041259; Cal. No.
18210
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $1,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
performing root canal therapy and having an instrument break
and remain in one of the canals, filling said canal beyond the
apex, and inserting bridgework that did not fit properly and
had an over-extension of a crown margin.
Leon Tombacher, New York, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 027789; Cal. No.
18220
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, $1,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
failing to use a rubber dam in commencing root canal therapy
on a patient's tooth.
Christine Marie Caton, Rochester, NY
Profession: Dental Hygienist; Lic. No. 020674;
Cal. No. 18221
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also May
2007)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution for last 21
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to a 1987 conviction
for Driving While Intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor; a
1989 conviction for Driving While Intoxicated, a class E felony;
a 1994 conviction for Driving While Intoxicated, a class E felony
and a 1998 conviction for Driving While Intoxicated, a class
E felony.
Jeffrey Alan Watson, Syracuse, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 024247; Cal. No.
18353
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: $1,000 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of failing
to maintain accurate patient records.
Massage Therapy
Joseph James Miraglia, Elmont, NY
Profession: Massage Therapist; Lic. No. 004239;
Cal. No. 17986
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of last 21
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Assault in the Third Degree and willfully filing
a false registration remittance document on which he failed to
indicate the conviction.
Nursing
Erica Economou, Centereach, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 191292; Cal. No. 18082
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Robbery in the Third Degree, a class D felony.
Nina B. Schaeffer a/k/a Nina Wolfe a/k/a Nina Greenhouse, New York, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
198166; Cal. No. 18002
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Seventh
Degree and Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third
Degree.
Suzanne Northrop Corbelli, Scottsdale, AZ
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
067884; Cal. No. 18278
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been found guilty by a sister state of falsifying patient records
and randomly withholding medications.
Sharon Alice Cunningham, Saugerties, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
092333; Cal. No. 17270
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation
1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of the crime Driving While Intoxicated, an unclassified
misdemeanor.
Jean-Ann Eckert a/k/a Jean Ann Eckert a/k/a Jean Ann Eckart, Webster, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
224728; Cal. No. 17906
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also July
1997)
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation
2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of the crimes Attempted Petit Larceny, a class
B misdemeanor; Petit Larceny, a class A misdemeanor and Driving
While Intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor.
David Arnold Smith, Cortland, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 436675; Cal. No. 16344
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 failing
to take remedial coursework and making numerous medication administration
errors.
Cathy Ann Cooper, Penfield, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 169554, 477986; Cal. Nos. 16545,
16546
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 obtaining
controlled substances ostensibly for administration to patients,
when in fact the medications were not obtained for patients.
Sharon Marie McGowan a/k/a Sharon Marie McGowan-Jin, Hamburg, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 199570, 416218; Cal. Nos. 17193,
17194
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 21
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years to commence if
and when return to practice, $3,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
failing to properly monitor and assess an infant patient's intravenous
infusion sight as frequently as was warranted.
Joanne McGlynn, Yonkers, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 282456; Cal. No. 17292
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 failing
to maintain accurate patient records.
Veronica E. Yeoman, Rosedale, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 224709; Cal. No. 17609
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 charges of failing
to perform finger stick blood serum tests, failing to administer
insulin, failing to chart withholding of insulin, and failing
to chart that a patient's feeding tube was not in place.
Jacquilyn Marie Maroney, Lynbrook, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
241296; Cal. No. 17729
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also June
2008 and January 2011)
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 Attempted Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument
(two counts) and Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument (two
counts).
Kathleen Elizabeth Stylianou, Sound Beach, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 478010; Cal. No. 17970
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 23
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, 50 hours of public
service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of Petit Larceny, a class A misdemeanor.
Joseph James Miraglia, Elmont, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
126630; Cal. No. 17987
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension for at least 6 months and until
terminated as set forth in consent order application - upon termination
of suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Assault in the Third Degree and willfully filling
a false registration remittance document on which he failed to
indicate the conviction.
Mary T. Lewis, Mahopac, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
132323; Cal. No. 18032
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also March
2003)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
diverting drugs for her own use.
James Edwin Leslie, Hartwick, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
218659; Cal. No. 18050
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 having
been found guilty of Violating Article thirty-three of the Public
Health Law for diversion of controlled drugs for personal use.
Margaret Joan Priest, Cheektowaga, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
215430; Cal. No. 18062
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 Attempted Criminal Possession of Stolen Property
in the Fifth Degree.
Mariann McElynn, Freeport, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 475066; Cal. No. 18090
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension with leave to apply for
early termination as set forth in consent order application,
probation 2 years to commence upon return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of failing
to administer medication to patients as ordered, administering
the wrong dose of medication, pre-pouring medications of a patient
but leaving them in the patient's medication's drawer without
administering them and charting that medications were administered
when they were not.
Curtis Dean Seiferth, Elmont, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 222519, 446997; Cal. Nos. 18091,
18092
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also October
2006)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of charge
of having been convicted of Falsely Reporting an Incident in
the Third Degree and Attempted Unlawful Imprisonment in the Second
Degree, both class B misdemeanors.
Pansy Robertson, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 280532; Cal. No. 18102
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
obtaining controlled substances for patients when she had no
intention of administering the medications to said patients.
Erna Mae Hill, Northville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 127425, 494294; Cal. Nos. 18106,
18107
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of decreasing
the rate of administration of a drug without a physician's order
to do so.
Linda S. Castellitto a/k/a Linda S. Logatto, Salisbury Mills, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 123038, 299027; Cal. Nos. 18164,
18165
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also July
2000 and January
2005)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 24 months, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
in another jurisdiction of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled
Substance, which if committed within New York State would have
constituted the crime of Criminal Possession of a Controlled
Substance in the Seventh Degree.
Carol Swiacki a/k/a Carol Marie Convey, East Meadow, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 372546; Cal. No. 18167
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $750 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of willfully
abusing and intimidating a patient verbally.
Thomas Sewastynowicz, Buffalo, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 130232, 315602; Cal. Nos. 18173,
18174
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also February
1997)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension until terminated as set forth
in consent order application - upon termination of suspension,
probation 3 years to commence upon return to practice, $500 fine,
the above shall supersede prior Associate Commissioner's orders
under numbers 16297 and 16298 and probation previously set forth
in those orders need not be served.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of Attempted Criminal Contempt in the Second Degree.
Judy A. Donahue, Cayuga, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 212137, 479346; Cal. Nos. 18224,
18226
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 committing
six medication errors and having been convicted of Issuing a
Bad Check.
Kevin Koegel, Merrick, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 162639, 401680; Cal. Nos. 18239,
18240
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of falsifying
two patient records to obtain a non-controlled substance for
personal use.
Alida J. Naeder Bizzarri, Port Washington, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 202939; Cal. No. 18242
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
willfully making a false report by failing to disclose on her
New York State registration application that she had surrendered
a professional license to the State of Georgia Board of Nursing.
Pauline Georgette Lewis, Bronx, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 255856, 501591; Cal. Nos. 18245,
18246
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 having been convicted
of Attempted Petit Larceny.
John Joseph Greco, Chester, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 168135; Cal. No. 18251
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 6 month suspension, probation 1 year to
commence if and when return to practice, 100 hours of public
service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of willful
failure to register and submitting forged registration certificates
to his employer.
Ann Marie Skalski, Buffalo, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 212255, 431157; Cal. Nos. 18254,
18253
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of willful
verbal abuse of a patient.
Carolyn Elizabeth Carpenter, Elmira, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 189319, 467855; Cal. Nos. 18293,
18292
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of last 21
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of falsely
documenting home care visits, and failing to maintain accurate
patient records.
Sabrina Wetmore a/k/a Sabrina Robare, Plattsburgh, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 229585, 456256; Cal. Nos. 18345,
18346
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 having been convicted
of Assault with Intent to Cause Physical Injury and Making a
False Written Statement, both misdemeanors.
Charlet Denece Tucker, Jamaica, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
206288; Cal. No. 18347
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 maintain accurate patient records.
Joy Cassandra L. Dejoras, Baltimore, MD
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 184622, 389164; Cal. Nos. 18369,
18370
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension with leave to apply for
early termination as set forth in consent order application,
probation 2 years to commence if and when return to practice.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
improperly administering potassium chloride to an infant patient
via a Soluset container, instead of via a bag of intravenous
solution.
Ramesh Shanker Bhai Patel, Baltimore, MD
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 461763; Cal. No. 18428
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Annulment of registered professional nurse
license.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
against charge of submitting false documentation to the New York
State Education Department Division of Professional Licensing
Services indicating that he had attended nursing school, when
in fact, as he well knew, he had not attended nursing school.
Ramben Dahyabhai Patel, Parlin, NJ
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
232973; Cal. No. 18429
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Annulment of licensed practical nurse license.
Summary: Licensee could not successfully defend
against charge of submitting false documentation to the New York
State Education Department Division of Professional Licensing
Services indicating that she had attended Shri G. H. Patel School
of Nursing in Gujarat, India when in fact, as she well knew,
she had not attended the aforesaid nursing school.
Ophthalmic Dispensing
John Albert Becker a/k/a John A. Becker, East Amherst, NY
Profession: Ophthalmic Dispenser; Lic. No. 003370;
Cal. No. 17811
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also May
1994)
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Driving While Intoxicated, a class E felony,
Aggravated Unlicensed Operation in the Third Degree, a misdemeanor,
Driving While Intoxicated, a class E felony and Aggravated Unlicensed
Operation in the Second Degree, a misdemeanor.
Optometry
Thomas Horvath, Island Park, NY
Profession: Optometrist; Lic. No. 005396; Cal.
No. 18276
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also May
2005)
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 22
months of suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of failing
to disclose on the initial application for licensure, a criminal
conviction of Driving While Intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor,
and failing to disclose on a registration the disposition of
criminal charges other than a dismissal or acquittal.
Pharmacy
Morris Goldberg a/k/a Maurice Goldberg a/k/a Michael Goldberg, Yonkers, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 022478; Cal.
No. 17688
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud.
Virgilio Charles Vaden, Rocky Point, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 037000; Cal.
No. 17809
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of filing
false statements involving Medicare for female external urinary
collection devices to nursing home patients, when in fact, he
knew and believed, he had not provided female external urinary
collection devices to any nursing home patients.
Clifford Edward Hotte a/k/a Clifford E. Hotte, Centerport, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 027700; Cal.
No. 17886
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation, $10,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Mail, Wire and Securities
Fraud, Securities Fraud, four counts of Mail Fraud, and eight
counts of Wire Fraud, all felonies.
Guillermo Chang, Bellevue, WA
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 040714; Cal.
No. 18281
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of Offering a False Instrument for Filing, a felony.
Michael Harris Kaplan, Buffalo, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 025536; Cal.
No. 17742
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 3 year suspension, execution of last 2 years of suspension
stayed, probation 3 years, 100 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of the crime of Willfully Making a Fraudulent
and False Statement, a class E felony.
Fazal Ur Rehman, Paramus, NJ
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 041213; Cal.
No. 17446
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of last 21
months of suspension stayed, probation for last 21 months, $2,500
fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of holding
for sale and/or offering for sale misbranded drugs and purchasing
non-controlled prescription-required drugs from an unauthorized
source.
T.W. Smith Corporation; Manufacturer/Wholesaler; 885 Meeker Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 304386; Cal.
No. 17853
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: $5,000 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Respondent admitted to charge of selling
medical oxygen to a purchaser not authorized by law to receive
said drug.
Amin Mohamed R. Ladha, Glencove, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 030520; Cal.
No. 17978
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 having
at the pharmacy where he was the Supervising Pharmacist outdated
controlled and non-controlled drugs in the active drug stock,
overfilled drug containers containing non-controlled drugs in
the active drug stock and sample drugs in the active drug stock.
Hector Luis Torres, Brentwood, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 045492; Cal.
No. 18119
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
dispensing the wrong medication to a patient.
A & S Drug Store, Inc. d/b/a Midlawn Pharmacy; 1043 Hicksville Road, Seaford, NY 11783
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 018074; Cal.
No. 18154
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Respondent admitted to charge of having
outdated controlled and non-controlled drugs in the active drug
stock, having overfilled drug containers containing non-controlled
drugs in the active stock and having sample drugs in the active
drug stock.
Shahzaria Din a/k/a Shahzaria Hussain, South Ozone Park, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 044500; Cal.
No. 18162
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
dispensing from an obviously altered prescription.
John Joseph Tomasetti, Pleasant Valley, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 025111; Cal.
No. 18244
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
making a dispensing error.
Kanwal Saba Malik, Fresh Meadows, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 046668; Cal.
No. 18284
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 substituting
without authorization a drug other than the drug prescribed.
Mark Peter Wejchert, Mt. Sinai, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 030630; Cal.
No. 18305
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of filing
a prescription with the wrong dosage and dispensing a medication
with three foreign pills in the vial.
Physical Therapy
Sibylle Klotz Garrett, Port Washington and Centereach, NY
Profession: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist
Assistant; Lic. No. 016799, Cert. No. 003491; Cal. Nos. 17975,
17981
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, $250 fine, certain
coursework to be successfully completed.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
threatening to wash a patient's mouth out with soap and placing
soap beneath the patient's lower lip.
Darnell Michelle Ramie, Wurtsboro, NY
Profession: Physical Therapist Assistant; Cert.
No. 001837; Cal. No. 18083
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of last 21
months of suspension stayed, probation for last 21 months, $2,500
fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
submitting false billing records to her former employer.
Eric Charles Lawrence, Woodbury, NY
Profession: Physical Therapist; Lic. No. 013221;
Cal. No. 18376
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of billing
for physical therapy services that were not actually rendered.
Podiatry
Michael Allen Strugats a/k/a Michael Strugats, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 003640; Cal.
No. 18116
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of Knowingly
and Intentionally Devising a Scheme to and Artifice to Defraud
an Insurance Company and to Obtain Money and Property from the
Insurance Company by Means of False and Fraudulent Pretenses,
Representations and Promises, by submitting and causing to be
submitted claims for medical services that he well knew and believed
had not been performed.
Neal H. Midenberg, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 003103; Cal.
No. 18088
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 2 years to commence
if and when return to practice, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of Knowingly and Unlawfully Possessing a Certain Weapon, a crime
in the third degree under New Jersey state law, which if committed
in New York State would constitute a crime and failing to disclose
on two successive re-registration applications submitted to New
York State Education Department and on an employment application
that he had been charged and convicted of the above-mentioned
crime.
Psychology
Agnes E. Murray, Conty Dublin, Ireland
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 007370; Cal.
No. 18271
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000 (see also July
1996)
Action: Application to surrender license granted
and this surrender shall supersede and be in satisfaction of
the probation previously set forth in Commissioner's Order No.
14692 and therefore that probation in said order need not be
served.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of violating
terms of probation imposed on the licensee by the Board of Regents
(failure to pay a fine and take continuing education).
Janice A. Bartleson, Naples, NY
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 012039; Cal.
No. 18225
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of having
been convicted of Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
Veterinary Medicine
Jeffrey A. Friedman, Larchmont, NY
Profession: Veterinarian; Lic. No. 004216; Cal.
No. 17779
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Suspension for not less than 1 year and
until terminated as set forth in consent order application -
upon termination of suspension, probation 3 years to commence
if and when return to practice, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, a class A misdemeanor,
Driving While the Ability is Impaired by Drugs, an unclassified
misdemeanor and Reckless Endangerment, a class A misdemeanor.
Iris Prestas, Ft. Myers, FL
Profession: Veterinarian; Lic. No. 005448; Cal.
No. 17862
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge
of failing to properly diagnose renal failure.
Charles Henry Rosaly, Staten Island, NY
Profession: Veterinarian; Lic. No. 007406; Cal.
No. 17866
Regents Action Date: February 8, 2000
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 misdiagnose
of a feline.
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