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Summary information of disciplinary actions taken against licensees, professional practice business entities, and pharmacy establishments by the Board of Regents in New York State since January 1, 1994, can be searched below by year, month, and profession. You may also search for an individual’s, entity’s or establishment’s status, and any applicable enforcement actions, with our Online Verification Search. Applicable disciplinary information will be listed under the Enforcement Actions tab within the search results.
In New York State, professional misconduct in all the professions (except that by physicians, physician assistants and specialist assistants, which is investigated and prosecuted by the Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) of the Department of Health) is investigated and prosecuted by the New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions. The Board of Regents, which also has responsibility for licensure in all the professions, is responsible for the final disposition of all disciplinary matters except those handled by OPMC.
Information on pre-1994 Regents Actions is available by phone: 518-474-3817, ext. 330; fax: 518-473-0578; e-mail: dplsdsu@nysed.gov, or by writing to the Office of the Professions.
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July 1996
Pharmacy
MARK BAHNA; FORT DIX, NJ
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 037044; Cal. No. 15712
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of a conviction of Knowingly and Intentionally Conspiring to Distribute and Possess Cocaine, and Knowingly and Intentionally Attempting to Possess with Intent to Distribute Cocaine.
JULIO A DELERME; DIX HILLS, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 027682; Cal. No. 15496
Action: $5,000 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admitted charges of failing to maintain biennial controlled drug inventories from 1988 to 1993 failing to keep records of all controlled drugs received, delivered, or disposed of holding for sale outdated drugs and violating probation.
DELVIN PHARMACY INC.; ASTORIA, NY
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 017800; Cal. No. 15497
Action: $2,500 fine.
Summary: Retail Pharmacy admitted charges of failing to maintain biennial controlled drug inventories from 1988 to 1993 failing to keep records of all controlled drugs received, delivered, or disposed of and holding for sale outdated drugs.
FRANWIN PHARMACY-MINEOLA SURGICAL SUPPLY CORP.; MINEOLA, NY
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 022147; Cal. No. 16061
Action: $5,000 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Retail Pharmacy admitted to charges of holding misbranded drugs for sale, holding outdated drug samples for sale, and operating the pharmacy at times when there was no pharmacist on duty.
GENOVESE DRUG STORES, INC.; LAKE RONKONKOMA, NY
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 019777; Cal. No. 15913
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $500 fine.
Summary: Retail Pharmacy did not contest charges of holding for sale misbranded non-controlled substances failing to have complete repacking records for non-controlled substances and dispensing pharmacists failing to sign daily logs.
THOMAS W MANNION; ELMA, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 037790; Cal. No. 16046
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having a conviction of Driving While Intoxicated.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG SERVICE, INC.; HAUPPAUGE, NY
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 017889; Cal. No. 14062
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $10,000 fine.
Summary: Retail Pharmacy was found guilty of dispensing unmixed ingredients for making Benzamycin, delegating the professional responsibility of evaluating prescriptions to individuals who were not qualified by licensure to do so, permitting an unlicensed person to evaluate prescriptions received, and failing to have proper procedures to prevent improper shipment of two non-controlled substances.
ARNOLD GERALD ROSENTHAL; VALLEY STREAM, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 023201; Cal. No. 16131
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of knowingly and unlawfully possessing and selling schedule III controlled substances.
SUZANNA SCHERL; FLUSHING, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 027965; Cal. No. 16070
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges that, at the pharmacy where she worked as Supervising Pharmacist, third party insurance claim forms were filed requesting payment for prescriptions that had not been authorized prescriptions that had not been dispensed and prescriptions that purportedly had been filled with brand name drugs when written for generic brand drugs.
SURFWAY PHARMACY INC.; BROOKLYN, NY
Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 014451; Cal. No. 16287
Action: Application to surrender registration granted, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Retail Pharmacy admitted to charges of holding for sale adulterated and/or misbranded non-controlled prescription drugs, holding for sale outdated non-controlled prescription drugs, holding for sale non-controlled prescription drugs that were physician samples, and possessing non-controlled prescription drugs for sale that were stolen.
JACK VITALE; BROOKLYN, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 028564; Cal. No. 16289
Action: Application to surrender license granted, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of holding for sale adulterated and/or misbranded non-controlled prescription drugs, holding for sale outdated non-controlled prescription drugs, holding for sale non-controlled prescription drugs that were physician samples, and possessing non-controlled prescription drugs for sale that were stolen.
Podiatry
WILLIAM JAY EISENBERG; NEW YORK, NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 003501; Cal. No. 14551
Action: Revocation, execution of revocation stayed, probation 5 years, $24,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of filing three false insurance claim forms and violating a term of probation.
WILLIAM JAY EISENBERG DPM PC; NEW YORK, NY
Profession: Professional Service Corporation; Cal. No. 15371
Action: Revocation, execution of revocation stayed, probation 5 years.
Summary: Professional Corporation admits to charges of filing three false insurance claims forms.
Psychology
ROCCO J CIRIGLIANO; GLEN COVE, NY
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 005209; Cal. No. 15306
Action: 5 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 5 years, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of engaging in physical contact of a sexual nature with a patient.
MILTON IRWIN KLEIN; NEW YORK, NY
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 003148; Cal. No. 16025
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing to request a report from a patient's former psychiatrist and failure to record a patient's suicidal ideation.
RANDALL R MICHAELSON; DEWITT, NY
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 008982; Cal. No. 16120
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing to ensure that an outpatient in his psychology practice whom he knew had taken more than her prescribed dosage of Ativan and who had inflicted cuts on her arms was taken to a hospital immediately for evaluation and engaging in sexual intercourse on several occasions with a patient in his psychology practice.
AGNES E MURRAY; MT. KISCO, NY
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 007370; Cal. No. 14692
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 18 months, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing to exercise reasonable care in the practice of psychology while rendering psychological services to a patient.
Public Accountancy
JOHN JAMES ROHAN; ISLIP TERRACE, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic. No. 052947; Cal. No. 16181
Action: Application to surrender license granted, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of a conviction of Tax Evasion, a felony.
Veterinary Medicine
ROBERT DOUGLAS GROHULSKI; QUEENS VILLAGE, NY
Profession: Veterinarian; Lic. No. 004657; Cal. No. 16092
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of a conviction of Driving While Intoxicated.
June 1996
Dentistry
ABDULLAH A AMIN (A/K/A AMIN ABDULLAH AL); ASTORIA, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 042017; Cal. No. 16094
Action: $500 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of slapping a 7 year old patient in the face.
GEORGE EUGENIEVICH ANASTASSOV; NEW YORK, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 042919; Cal. No. 15916
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of hiring a dentist without verifying licensure as a dentist in the State of New York and submitting an erroneous insurance claim for a procedure which had not been performed.
ALLAN G BEAL; WESTPORT, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 033575; Cal. No. 16009
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $10,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of a conviction on five counts of the crime of Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the Second Degree, a Class A Misdemeanor.
ANTHONY W FERRARO; BURNT HILLS, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 033857; Cal. No. 15222
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: License did not contest charges of failing to place root canal filling material in the canals of two teeth.
PETER J MEHR;
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 039740; Cal. No. 15804
Action: $500 fine, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of making several attempts at a crown construction.
FRANK ALFRED CHARLES MIRCHEL; VANCOUVER, WA
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 036392; Cal. No. 13670
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of failing to take a post-operative radiograph after inserting a post notwithstanding the patient's complaint of pain failing to take an adequate radiograph of the teeth that were to serve as abutment teeth for the bridge and failing to detect that one of those teeth was perforated.
CHARLES F NEGUS; MASSENA, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 023682; Cal. No. 16050
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of placing an unruly minor patient across his knee and spanking her buttocks, in the presence of the patient's mother.
Engineering
JOHN I JOHNSEN; ORLANDO, FL
Profession: Professional Engineer; Lic. No. 054753; Cal. No. 15503
Action: Revocation, $10,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found to have been convicted of acts constituting the Federal crime of Conspiracy to Defraud.
Massage Therapy
ROBERT T JOSEPH; NEW YORK, NY
Profession: Massage Therapist; Lic. No. 003734; Cal. No. 16104
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of kissing the breast and feet and licking the toes of a female patient.
Nursing
AMY LYNN ATWELL; GERRY, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic. No. 414769; Cal. No. 14422
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing to report a significant change in a patient's condition.
PATRICIA JEAN BELILE; NICHOLVILLE, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 068659; Cal. No. 15351
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted charges of a conviction of Criminal Possession of Marihuana in the Third Degree, a Class E Felony.