Summaries of Regents Actions
On Professional Misconduct and Discipline*
January 1994
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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