Summaries of Regents Actions
On Professional Misconduct and Discipline*
March 1999
Certified Social Work - Dentistry - Nursing - Pharmacy - Podiatry - Professional Engineering
Certified Social Work
Lillian Arbelo, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
014932; Cal. No. 17662
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
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 preparing
false progress notes, visit reports and a discharge summary,
all relating to one patient.
Dentistry
Kenneth M. D'Cunha, Danbury, CT
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 038506; Cal. No.
17556
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of three counts of Sodomy in the Third Degree.
Nursing
Joan Winifred Wright, New York, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 150050; Cal. No. 14361
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of practicing
the profession while her license was suspended and failing to
comply with the terms of probation as set forth in an earlier
order of the Department.
Gerald Scott Lenahan, Peekskill and Beacon, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
232718; Cal. No. 16849
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of committing
several acts of theft from patients at his employer's place of
business and from his employer.
Joanne Spina, Deer Park, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
099540; Cal. No. 17726
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of engaging
in conduct in the practice of her profession which evidences
moral unfitness by stealing ninety (90) Percocet tablets from
a patient.
Charles A. Marlow, North Massapequa, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 150619, 340561; Cal. No. 17732,
17733
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application to surrender licenses granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of the crime Driving While Intoxicated.
Heather Jilson Moore, Elmira, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 458581; Cal. No. 17795
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999 (see also November
1997)
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to perform medical tests but indicating in medical administration
documents that they were performed, failing to disclose to employer
that her license to practice her profession was on probation,
and for submitting false documents to the Department in connection
with a previously imposed term of probation.
Robert William Cox, Buffalo, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
216459; Cal. No. 16471
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation
2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of making
numerous medication administration errors and prescribing medications
without authorization.
Marie Jocelyne Simpson-Joseph, Spring Valley, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 431556; Cal. No. 17211
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: $250 fine, probation 1 year to be terminated
earlier as set forth in consent order application.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge
of committing several medication administration errors.
Patricia Ann Collins, North Tonawanda, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 202305, 426806; Cal. No. 17433,
17434
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of,
while rendering care to a 2 year old post-operative brain tumor
resection patient, failing to verify that a drainage clamp was
open, failing to take vital signs at time intervals as ordered,
and administering a non-controlled medication every 8 hours instead
of every 6 hours as ordered.
Amy Randon Fay, Olean, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 389554; Cal. No. 17447
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
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 failing
to administer medication in accordance with physicians' orders
on four occasions.
Margaret A. Wehrum, East Rockaway, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 156614, 352260; Cal. No. 17490,
17491
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: $500 fine, probation 3 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of being
dependent upon narcotics.
Raymond Monroe, Bronx, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
167065; Cal. No. 17575
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
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
a license to practice as a licensed practical nurse fraudulently,
being convicted of two counts of Criminal Mischief in the Fourth
Degree, Unauthorized use of a Motor Vehicle in the Third Degree,
and Operating a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of Alcohol
or Drugs.
Edward Frank Villarejo, Baldwin, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
241108; Cal. No. 17586
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
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 the crime Driving While Intoxicated.
Teresa Smith Vencl, Endicott, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 244713; Cal. No. 17589
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
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 having
been convicted of the crime Forgery in the Second Degree, a class
D felony.
Marie Magalie Planchuelo, Forest Hills, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 202839, 430871; Cal. No. 17611,
17612
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
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
signing a transfusion administration record to indicate that
she had made all required identification checks between the intended
recipient of a blood transfusion and the blood product label
when she had not, and commencing the transfusion without having
made all required identification checks.
Concepcion P. Villaluna, New Milford, NJ
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 377506; Cal. No. 17613
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
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 charges of administering
a medication via the incorrect route, mislabeling the medication,
administering the incorrect medication to a patient and failing
to maintain an accurate patient record.
Lorraine J. Freiberg, Stony Point, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 486321; Cal. No. 17614
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of administering
a medication via the incorrect route, mislabeling the medication,
administering the incorrect medication to a patient and failing
to maintain an accurate patient record.
Elizabeth Vidal-Lenzo, Spencerport, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 486135; Cal. No. 17638
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
failing to notify a nursing supervisor of a nursing home resident's
low blood sugar level.
Saly George, Bellerose, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 199018, 429736; Cal. No. 17645,
17643
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
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 notice that the wrong pain medication was infusing into patient.
Cheryle L. Sprague, Watertown, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
211538; Cal. No. 17656
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years to commence upon return to practice,
100 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of being
convicted of Driving While Intoxicated, failing to properly administer
medications to patients and/or failing to document said administrations,
and having been found in violation of Article 33 of the Public
Health Law by diverting the controlled substance Demerol for
self-administration.
Ellen Mosely, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 115324, 315083; Cal. No. 17666,
17667
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year to commence upon return to practice,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of charting
that Flagyl had been administered to a patient by herself and
other nurses when she knew that the drug had not been administered.
Edward J. McKenna, Islip, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 446099; Cal. No. 17684
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
willfully physically abusing a psychiatric patient by pushing
an unlit cigarette into the patient's face.
Michele Mahan-Roach, Rocky Point, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 385720; Cal. No. 17721
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years to commence if and when return to practice,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of recording
in patients records that double doses of patients' ordered Demerol
were administered while she had administered the ordered amount
and kept the excess for her own use.
Pharmacy
Raymond Alan Bleser, Schenectady, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 021895; Cal.
No. 17724
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a Class D Felony and Criminal
Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Fourth Degree, a
Class C Felony.
Hunts Point Multi Service Center, Inc., 661 Cauldwell Avenue, Bronx, NY 10455
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 012831; Cal.
No. 17445
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: $5,000 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Registrant did not contest charge of
maintaining as part of its inventory drugs that were misbranded
and repacked. Drugs were in containers that lacked labels bearing
sufficient information for proper identification and safety.
Gus A. Constantouris, Bethpage, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 036872; Cal.
No. 17610
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of making
a dispensing error, failing to sign daily computerized records
of prescriptions, and failing to document in pharmacy records
the acceptance of refusal of patient counseling.
Steven Mark Kramer, Westley Hills, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 033806; Cal.
No. 17628
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension
stayed, probation 2 years, $7,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charge of filling
or refilling prescriptions for Vicodin, when in fact, the prescription
had been altered as to quantity to be dispensed. Pursuant to
the altered prescriptions the licensee dispensed quantities of
Vicodin more frequently and in excess of the amount that would
be used if taken in accordance with the directions for use.
Podiatry
Vartan J. Lazarian a/k/a Vartan J. Lazar, Bellport, NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 003757; Cal.
No. 12371
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: $2,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of inappropriately
taking x-rays of an unaffected foot for one patient and improperly
using a sterile tray and pack in treating another patient.
Professional Engineering
Slawomir M. Popiel, Hamburg, NJ
Profession: Professional Engineer; Lic. No.
062171; Cal. No. 17602
Regents Action Date: March 16, 1999
Action: Application for consent order granted;
Penalty agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charge of
affixing his signature and seal to plans of a residence not prepared
by him nor by an employee under his direct supervision and that
his written evaluation of the plan was not sufficiently thorough.
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