Click here for more information on the Psychiatric Crime Database.
| Displaying 1 - 1805 of 1805 | ||
| Name | Title | Country / State |
| Crime | Sentence | |
| (Bates-)Jackson, Diaris M. | school psychologist | U.S. Virginia |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: November 21, 1995 | 10 years in prison (suspended), 20 years probation and ordered to pay $104,164 in restitution. | |
| Abbas, Mahmoud F. | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 10, 1992 | Suspended 3-year jail sentence and ordered to pay fines and restitution totaling $40,000. | |
| Abdel-Malek, Nassim | mental hospital director | Egypt Cairo |
| Receiving bribes in exchange for releasing a known killer, Saber Farahat, from a psychiatric hospital for days at a time. While "on leave," Farahat killed 10 people. Date convicted: November 13, 1997 | Life imprisonment. | |
| Abild, Gordon | chemical dependency counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: August 2005 | License revoked. | |
| Abrams, Gary | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal insurance fraud. Date convicted: 1996 | 3 years probation, fined $5,400, ordered to serve 600 hours community service and ordered to pay restitution of $11,500. | |
| Abreu, Vanja | psychiatric facility program director | U.S. Florida |
| Medicare fraud Date convicted: June 1, 2012 | To be sentenced | |
| Acevedo, Margarita | marketing director for chain of mental health facilities | U.S. Florida |
| Paid millions in illegal kickbacks for patient referrals to recruiters associated with assisted-living facilities and halfway houses in exchange for supplying therapy services to patients who didn't need them.
Date convicted: April 7, 2011 | To be sentenced in July 2011. | |
| Ackerman, Gerald "Ajax" | former counselor | U.S. Michigan |
| Sexually molesting several young girls, aged 8 to 12, who were being treated at his youth center. Date convicted: June 20, 2000 | 25 to 38 years in prison | |
| Ackerman, Norman | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Stealing more than $1.3 million from state Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: December 11, 1991 | up to 15 years in jail. He and Lehrman, the other clinic operator, were ordered to pay $1 million in restitution | |
| Ackerman, Norman | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Sexual misconduct with patients. Date convicted: June 1987 | License revoked. | |
| Acree, Virginia Vought | psychiatric nurse | U.S. Maryland |
| Health care fraud (admitted she billed government health programs and insurance companies for more than $200,000 in services that she never rendered). Date convicted: October 25, 2008 | Three years prison, three years supervised release and $390,000 restitution. | |
| Adamczak, Jeffrey | psychologist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sexual exploitation by a therapist Date convicted: October 13, 2011 | One year jail | |
| Adams, George L. | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Part of a fraudulent real estate scam that bilked millions of dollars from a Harris County Mental Health/Mental Retardation Authority. Date convicted: May 16, 1991 | Ordered to pay $514,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Ademola, Temitope O. | Psychiatrist | Scotland - UK |
| In November 2015, she was convicted of assaulting a patient who had a learning disability and impaired cognitive functions by kicking her on the body and covering her mouth to stop her breathing. She had earlier threatened to punch and kick the patient. Date convicted: May 26, 2017 | License suspended for 6 months; 200 hours of unpaid work. | |
| Aden, Gary C. | psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado, California |
| Alleged sexual misconduct with at least seven female patients, in some cases going back more than 20 years. Date convicted: December 1989 | Surrendered license; deemed a revocation. | |
| Adkins, Alfred Bradley | Psychologist | U.S. Kentucky |
| He took part in a massive disability fraud scheme. Adkins was charged with falsely signing mental-impairment evaluations that he didn't perform. The prosecutor said Adkinds received about $200,000 while taking part in the scheme. He was found guilty of four felony charges: conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and making a false statement on a record submitted to the Social Security Administration. Date convicted: June 12, 2017 | Sentencing scheduled for September 22, 2017. | |
| Adler, Roger E. | psychiatrist | U.S. South Carolina, Massachusetts |
| Unprofessional conduct with a female patient and behavior outside the bounds of a proper physician-patient relationship (was charged with committing a lewd act on a minor). Date convicted: August 1999 | Revoked in South Carolina; suspended in Massachusetts. | |
| Africa, Bruce | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Made a telephone death threat to a former patient. Date convicted: 1997 | Time served in jail awaiting disposition of the case and enrolled in counseling | |
| Aimone, Connie | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Aimone entered into a stipulated orders with the Washington State Nursing Care Quality Commission in 1999, 2001 and 2002 which required her to submit to random biological fluid testing and to abstain from non-therapeutic use of mind-altering substance including but not limited to alcohol. She failed to comply with the order and thus in March 2004, her nursing license was suspended for at least 48 months. Date convicted: August 1, 2005 | Counselor license revoked as reciprocal action to suspension of her nursing license. | |
| Ajao, Jill | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Filed false police report of having been raped. Police later learned there was no rape and that Ajao did it in an attempt to cover up her extramarital affair. Date convicted: April 2, 2008 | 20 days in jail and $3,275 restitution. | |
| Ajigbotafe, Christopher | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Failure to file income tax. Date convicted: October 24, 2007 | 180 days prison, 3 years probation and $53,196 in fines and restitution. He was further ordered to have no contact directly or indirectly with the U.S. federal Medicare insurance program and is required to voluntarily surrender his medical license. | |
| Al Rowais, Nabil | psychiatrist | Saudi Arabia |
| Traveled to the U.S. to engage in criminal sexual conduct. (Saudi psychiatrist Al Rowais flew to the U.S. after chatting online for nine months with who he thought was a father offering up his 2 1/2-year-old daughter for sex but was in actuality an undercover agent of the California Justice Department. Al Rowais was arrested when he arrived at a motel in Vallejo, California to meet the "father" and daughter.) Date convicted: March 23, 2007 | 7 years prison. | |
| Al-Zawahiri, Ayman | psychiatrist | U.S. Egypt |
| Terrorist activities. Date convicted: Circa 2000 | Death, in Egypt in absentia | |
| Alam, Arif | psychiatrist | UK |
| Fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs. Date convicted: October 5, 2009 | Suspended sentence and 200 hours community service. | |
| Alapack, Richard J. | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada |
| 1. Failed to maintain appropriate boundaries in his therapeutic relationship with a female patient by having her sleep overnight at his home and sleeping overnight at her home.
2. Had a dual relationship with the patient in that he treated her as a client while initiating and continuing a personal relationship.
3. Suggested, initiated and engaged in sexual intimacies by removing his trousers and putting the patient's hand on his erect penis during a therapy session.
4. Failed to provide the patient with adequate treatment, in that he used his influence over her to seek personal benefit, including the use of her home and automobile for his personal benefit.
Date convicted: March 26, 2004 | Pennsylvania license revoked in response to earlier disciplinary action taken against him in Ontario, Canada. On May 10, 2000 the College of Psychologists of Ontario revoked his license. He was also required to pay the College's costs for investigation and enforcement: $10,000. | |
| ALBRECHT, PATRICIA ANN | counselor | U.S. Iowa |
| Sexually abusing two teenage boys at the youth home where she worked. Date convicted: January 13, 1999 | 10 years in jail | |
| ALECKSON, SUSAN L. | clinical social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| 2 misdemeanor counts of sex with a child 16 years or older (involving her foster son). Date convicted: December 4, 2003 | 6 months jail and 3 years probation. | |
| Aleckson, Susan | licensed clinical social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sex with teenager. Date convicted: March 2004 | Surrendered license. | |
| Alexander, Robert C. | psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: April 14, 2004 | License revoked. | |
| ALEXIS, PETER | mental health executive | U.S. Texas |
| Giving more than $20 million in bribes to doctors and others to route patients to his psychiatric hospitals. Date convicted: January 10, 1996 | 5 years probation and ordered to pay $221,900 in restitution and fines | |
| Allauch, Pierre-Charles | Psychologist | Australia South Australia, |
| He was convicted for "using a protected title while unregistered in a health profession." His registration as a psychologist had lapsed in 2011 but he was still practicing as one. In 2014, officials found signs in his office that held him out to be a psychologist. After saying he would cancel all appointments, a later check found he was still seeing patients "as a counsellor" after covering up the word "psychologist" with masking tape. Date convicted: June 9, 2016 | Criminal conviction and $7500 fine | |
| Allee, Anthony | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Harassment and stalking of former patient Date convicted: 2008 | 5 years probation | |
| ALLEN, DONALD M. | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| 4 counts of statutory rape of a 15-year-old boy. Date convicted: December 22, 1978 | 5 years probation | |
| Allen, Robert Arthur | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| He had a sexual relationship with a patient which then continued for several years after she was no longer his patient. The medical board stated he "was grossly negligent in his treatment" of the patient. Date convicted: January 6, 2017 | License Surrendered | |
| ALLISON, CHRISTOPHER | psychiatrist | U.K. Bury, St. Edmonds, Suffolk |
| Rape and indecent assault (on six women patients). Date convicted: December 9, 2002 | Jailed for 8 years. | |
| Almy, Gary | psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Aggravated criminal sexual abuse of three boys, ages 10 and 14, in his home.
Date convicted: June 7, 2005 | 7 years prison. License suspended indefinitely. | |
| Alper, Stephen H. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York, North Carolina |
| Inappropriate sexual contact with two patients. Date convicted: January 26, 2004 | Surrendered license. On May 20, 2004, Alper was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Alroe, Christopher | psychiatrist | Australia Queensland |
| Sexual relationship with patient. Date convicted: May 2005 | Struck off (license revoked) for 4 years. | |
| ALSTON, CAROLYN E. | mental health executive | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding the state Medicaid insurance program. Date convicted: August 1997 | 4 years probation and 200 hours community service | |
| Alston, Carolyn E. | counseling center employee | U.S. Georgia |
| Conspiracy to defraud the state (submitted fraudulent bills to U.S. Medicaid insurance program). Date convicted: August 1997 | 4 years probation and 200 hours community service. | |
| Alvarez, Carlos | psychology professor | U.S. Florida |
| Conspiring to act as a covert agent for the Republic of Cuba within the United States (Alvarez worked for nearly 30 years as a covert intelligence agent for the Cuban government, gathering and transmitting information concerning, among other things, prominent individuals and groups within the Cuban exile community in the U.S.). Date convicted: February 27, 2007 | 60 months prison. | |
| Alvarez, Elsa | clinical social worker | U.S. Florida |
| Misprision of a felony (Knowing of a felony and failing to prevent it.) Alvarez was co-conspirator in her husband's attempts to act as an agent for Cuba. See entry on Carlos Alvarez. Date convicted: February 27, 2007 | 36 months prison | |
| AMOS, JAMES | counselor | U.S. Oregon |
| Sexually molesting a young boy. Date convicted: March, 1991 | 5 years in jail | |
| Amsellem, David | psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Numerous psychiatric hospitalizations, indicating impaired ability to practice medicine with requisite skill and safety to patients. Date convicted: July 29, 2004 | License revoked. In October 2005 Amsellem was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| ANDERSON, BERN | mental health executive | U.S. Washington D.C. |
| Defrauding eight non-profit mental health care companies that provided services to mentally retarded individuals. Date convicted: July 8, 1997 | 2 1/2 years in jail | |
| ANDERSON, PATRICIA | mental health billing clerk | U.S. Georgia |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: May 20, 1998 | 5 years probation | |
| ANDERSON, RICHARD J. | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| 1 count of Theft by Swindle and 1 count of Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: June 6, 1999 | 20 years probation and 10 years probation and ordered to pay $58, 000 in restitution | |
| ANDERSON, CATHY J. | social worker | U.S. Idaho |
| "Executing a scheme to defraud a health care benefit program" (fraudulently billed the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare for counseling services she did not provide). Date convicted: January 1, 2004 | 4 months jail, 4 months home detention and ordered to pay nearly $70,000 in restitution and $96,000 as the result of a related civil health care fraud action. | |
| Anderson, Larry | psychiatrist | Canada British Columbia |
| Indecent assault and sexual assault of female patients. Date convicted: January 20, 2006 | 18 months jail, two years probation, must register as a a sex offender and may not see reinstatement of his license. | |
| Anderson, Carolyn | counselor and mental health practitioner | U.S. Nebraska |
| Engaged in a sexual relationship with a former client within two years of terminating the professional relationship. Date convicted: June 2004 | License suspended for 30 days. | |
| ANDREADIS, BARBARA | social worker | U.S. West Virginia |
| Felony Medicaid fraud and felony insurance fraud (of private insurers). Date convicted: July 30, 2002 | 13 years prison, all suspended but 15 months. | |
| ANDRES, VALENTINO | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sexual contact with a patient. Date convicted: April 1992 | 45 days in jail; fined $2,020 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service | |
| ANSHELL, JACKIE MARLA | psychiatric patient broker | U.S. Florida |
| Funneling patients into psychiatric facilities in return for money. Date convicted: August 25, 2000 | 3 years probation and ordered to pay $850 restitution | |
| APPLEBAUM, WAYNE S. | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 3, 1997 | 90 days in jail, 10 years probation and ordered to pay $269,033 restitution | |
| Applebaum, Michael J. | psychiatrist | U.S. Idaho |
| Medicaid fraud and obstruction of an investigation. In September of 1994, he was also convicted of illegal possession of controlled substance. Date convicted: November 21, 2011 | 2 to 5 years prison | |
| Apramian, Lisa Rose | psychologist | U.S. California |
| While employed under contract at Donovan Correctional Facility (San Diego, CA), Apramian was alleged to have engaged in dual relationships with inmates there. She did not contest the allegations but instead surrendered her license while still under investigation. Date convicted: May 24, 2004 | License surrendered. She was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in April 2005. | |
| APTOWITZ, FREDERICK | psychiatrist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Convincing a patient to attach 2 sticks of dynamite to the car of a woman who had a sexual harassment lawsuit against him. Date convicted: November 12, 1993 | 8 years probation | |
| Aptowitz, Frederick | psychiatrist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Solicited a former patient to plant explosives under the car of a former employee who was suing him for sexual harassment.
Date convicted: November 12, 1993 | Pleaded guilty. | |
| Arimond, James | counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Convicted of 4th-degree sexual assault of a teenage boy. Date convicted: July 2003 | Ordered by the state to surrender his license. | |
| Arroyo, Ruy Dan | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Sex with a female patient, hugging and kissing another and admitting that he engaged in "seduction therapy" with a third. Date convicted: August 1996 | License revoked for 15 years. | |
| Ascani, Beatriz Isabel | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal fraud in the amount of $1,912,890 Date convicted: June 6, 2006 | 270 days county jail, 3 years probation, and invest costs of $21,945. | |
| ASKINS, KAREN L. | social worker | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Embezzling $78,000 in welfare benefits. Date convicted: August 11, 1999 | 5 years in jail and to repay $73,175 (after her release) | |
| Askren, Edward L. | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Sexual misconduct with a patient. Date convicted: April 4, 1991 | License suspended for 1 month and restrictions placed on his professional practice. | |
| AVERY, FRED | school counselor | U.S. North Carolina |
| Molesting 2 boys, aged 10 and 13. Date convicted: October 13, 1994 | 6 years in prison and 5 years probation | |
| Avila, Jose | counselor | U.S. Virginia |
| Assaulting a federal law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of official duties. Date convicted: June 29, 2010 | 12 months prison. | |
| AYALA, STEVE | counselor | U.S. California |
| Sodomy charges involving teens at a group home where he worked. Date convicted: January 2000 | 6 years in jail | |
| Ayala, Alberto | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Medicare fraud Date convicted: June 1, 2012 | To be sentenced | |
| AZAM, CHOWDHURY | resident in psychiatry | U.S. New York |
| Fraudulently holding himself out to be a medical doctor and prescribing drugs illegally to patients. Date convicted: December 5, 1991 | 30 days in jail | |
| Azam, Chowdhury F. | Psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| He "engaged in the indiscriminate or grossly negligent prescribing of Controlled Dangerous Substances ('CDS')...." During 2015 and through 2016, Respondent was allegedly prescribing CDS to his patients including amphetamines, opiates, benzodiazepines, and other drugs, without adequate medical justification. Date convicted: February 3, 2017 | License Suspended for 5 years, retroactive to October 26, 2016 | |
| Azevedo, William | mental health practitioner | U.S. Nebraska |
| Charged with third-degree sexual assault for touching a client in 2002. The charge was later amended to assault and battery, to which he pleaded no contest. Date convicted: February 2005 | License suspended for 60 days. | |
| BABCOCK, WILLIAM WAYNE | school psychologist | U.S. California |
| Lewd and lascivious acts on a child under the age of 14 years (students in the school where he worked). Date convicted: September, 2002 | 22 years prison. | |
| Bachers, Alan | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Sexual relationship with patient.
Date convicted: June 2003 | License permanently revoked. | |
| Baez, Eduardo "Doc" | psychologist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Baez, as the "president" of a street gang, was involved in drugs, drive-by shootings and the attempted murder of rival gang members. Date convicted: May 1999 | 19 years in jail, 3 years supervised probation and fined $20,000 | |
| BAGHAI-KERMANI, ABDOLHOSEIN | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Illegally selling prescription drugs out of his office. Date convicted: June 10, 1992 | 1 to 5 years in prison and fined $100,000 | |
| Bagley, Barbara Carroll | counselor | U.S. California |
| Criminal conviction related to Medicaid program. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| BAILEY, THOMAS EUGENE | psychiatric aide | U.S. Oregon |
| Molesting 2 young girls. Previously convicted for rape and having undergone treatment at Oregon State Hospital; he was later given a job there counseling sex offenders. Date convicted: October 21, 2000 | 20 years in prison | |
| BAILEY, VANESSA ANNE | prison psychologist | Australia Brisbane |
| Perjury (denied engaging in sex acts with two inmates and supplying prisoners with drugs/alcohol. Videotaped in sexually compromising position with one inmate). Date convicted: May 30, 2002 | Jailed 16 months (to be suspended after 4 months). | |
| Baker, Melvin | mental health worker | U.S. California |
| Patient abuse or neglect conviction. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| BALLANTYNE, TREVOR | family counselor | Canada Winnipeg |
| Physically abusing his stepchildren Date convicted: February 25, 2000 | 1 year in jail | |
| BALLENGER, VINCENT LEE | mental health center staff | U.S. Missouri |
| Multiple counts of felony child abuse (involving residents of the center where he worked). Date convicted: Circa 2002 | 20 years prison. | |
| Balog, John F. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Hawaii |
| While working in Hawaii at Maui Community Mental Health Center, Balog failed to take accurate notes of patient meetings, properly prescribe medications and properly supervise subordinate employees. As a result of the Hawaii Medical Board's discipline action, his license was voluntarily surrendered effective 12/11/2014 for failure to comply with laws relating to work performance and laws governing professional conduct. Date convicted: December 11, 2014 | License Surrendered | |
| Balog, John F. | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| His license was surrendered in California based on disciplinary action in Hawaii.
Date convicted: July 29, 2016 | License Surrendered | |
| BANEZ-GUZMAN, CORAZON | psychiatrist | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 11, 1991 | 6 months in jail and $100,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Bannikov, Grigory | director of psychiatric institution | Russia |
| Coerced sterilization of three female patients. Date convicted: October 12, 2010 | 2 years conditional imprisonment and 1 year probation. | |
| BARA, KRISHAN JUMAN | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: October 23, 1996 | 4 years probation and ordered to repay $4,934 | |
| Barela, Ernest M. | psychiatric nurse | U.S. Virginia |
| Felony consensual sodomy (was caught engaging in oral sex with a patient). Date convicted: June 7, 2007 | 3 years prison, suspended, and placed on 3 years probation. | |
| Barker, Stephen | hypnotherapist | UK |
| Sexually assaulted a patient whom he had put into a trance. Date convicted: January 29, 2010 | Jailed for 10 months. | |
| BARNARD, SUZANNA | school psychologist | U.S. California |
| Allowing her husband to sexually assault their daughter. Date convicted: May 26,1993 | 17 years in prison | |
| Barr, Willie | counselor | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: February 15, 2012 | 10-year deferred prison sentence, $14,012 restitution | |
| BARRETT, DAVID A. | psychiatrist | U.S. Rhode Island |
| Shooting and killing a man who intervened in a dispute between Barrett and a store clerk. Date convicted: January 24, 1997 | 30 years in jail | |
| BARRON, JAMES W. | psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Federal tax evasion. Date convicted: July 26, 1991 | 6 months home detention and 2 years probation | |
| Barrow, Malcolm C. | psychologist | U.S. Texas |
| Criminal conviction Date convicted: Circa Feb 2005 | Suspended for 60 days. | |
| Bartos, Michael J. | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Second-degree felony theft: defrauded Medicaid (U.S. federally funded health program) and a Third-degree felony: falsified unemployment insurance documents. Date convicted: December 19, 2008 | 60 days jail, 10 years probation, $40,500 restitution and 1,000 hours community service. He is permanently prohibited from performing serviced under any government health care program. | |
| Bartschat, Dieter | psychiatrist | USA South Carolina |
| Communicating obscene messages to another person without consent Date convicted: July 11, 2022 | Time already served (10 days in jail) and ordered to register as Tier 1 sex offender | |
| Basbus, Victor M. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Enterprise Corruption; Insurance Fraud; Grand Larceny; Offering a False Instrument for Filing (4 counts); Falsifying a Business Record (4 counts) and Scheme to Defraud (2 counts). Date convicted: February 11, 2008 | 2 to 6 years prison on all counts except "Offering a false instrument," for which he was sentenced to 1 to 3 years on each count. | |
| Batchu, Mani | psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Sexual exploitation of a minor and rape Date convicted: 11/18 & 12/19, 2011 | 30 years federal prison and 10 years state custody | |
| BATES, DANNY R. | counselor | U.S. Illinois |
| Sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy. Date convicted: April 29, 1997 | 6 years in prison | |
| Batoff, Stephen | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Indecent assault (fondling) of a 16-year-old female patient. Date convicted: November 16, 1999 | 1 to 4 years prison. | |
| BATTALINO, BARBARA | psychiatrist | U.S. Idaho |
| Perjury, after lying in court about having sex with a patient. Date convicted: July 20,1998 | 6 months house arrest and fined $3,500 | |
| Battles, Marie "Terry" | psychiatric technician | U.S. New Jersey |
| Criminal sexual contact (admitted to touching a patient in his genital area with the purpose of arousing him and herself). Date convicted: March 2, 2007 | 3 years probation, 100 hours community service and agreed to forfeit job and never seek public employment again in New Jersey. | |
| Baum, Allicia | Psychologist | U.S. Missouri |
| For failure to file or pay state taxes, Allicia Baum's license was suspended on September 21, 2016. Reinstated October 7, 2016. Date convicted: September 21, 2016 | License Suspended | |
| Baumann, Peter | psychiatrist | Switzerland |
| Involuntary manslaughter and murder (assisted three patients to commit suicide). Date convicted: July 6, 2007 | Baumann appealed the conviction, which was upheld. He then filed an appeal with the federal court. On June 25, 2009, the Court of Appeal of Basel, Switzerland upheld the lower court's conviction, additionally pronounced him guilty of intentional homicide (murder) and increased his prison sentence to four years with no time suspended. | |
| Beale, Mark | psychiatrist | U.S. New Mexico |
| Two counts of felony criminal sexual penetration in the third degree, 12 counts of misdemeanor criminal sexual contact, and two counts of petty misdemeanor battery Date convicted: March 29, 2022 | Seven years prison | |
| Bean, Ellen | clinical social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Negligence and incompetence Date convicted: May 2004 | License suspended 6 months. | |
| Bean-Bayog, Margaret | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Accused of seducing a patient and contributing to his suicide. Date convicted: September 1992 | Surrendered license, deemed revocation. | |
| BECKER, MICHAEL | therapist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Attempting to sexually assault a female patient he'd lured to his home office. Date convicted: May 24, 1995 | 2 years in jail | |
| Beckman, Jeanne D. | Psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Failure to file and/or pay Illinois state income taxes. Date convicted: January 6, 2017 | License Suspended | |
| Bedi, Tajinder Singh | counselor intern | U.S. California |
| Child molestation. Date convicted: March 4, 2011 | Convicted; sentence pending. | |
| BEHAR, LENORE | former state mental health official | U.S. North Carolina |
| Obstructing justice by attempting to hide diversion of federal money intended for programs for foster children. Date convicted: June 14, 2001 | 6 months house arrest, 2 years probation, $250,000 fine and $274,000 restitution. | |
| Behniwal, Mandeep | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Assault conviction (based on sexual contact with patient). Date convicted: March 24, 2010 | 3 years probation. | |
| BEITCH, MICHAEL | psychological examiner | U.S. Maine |
| Medicaid insurance fraud, after billing for 3,680 hours of service he didn't provide. Date convicted: September 25, 1997 | 5 years in jail (2 years suspended); 4 years probation and 750 hours of community service | |
| Belanger, Joseph | psychologist | U.S. North Dakota |
| Receiving and possessing materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. Belanger, who was employed at the state psychiatric hospital in Jamestown, North Dakota for more than 20 years, paid for access to pornography web sites and downloaded thousands of sexually explicit images and more than 200 videos. Date convicted: January 23, 2009 | 7 years prison | |
| BELL, CHARLES ALLEN WEATHERS | therapist | U.S. California |
| Defrauding a government insurance program, while claiming to be a licensed therapist. Date convicted: September 8, 1992 | 21 months in federal prison | |
| BELL, LIONEL THOMAS | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Sexual assault of a young boy while Bell had AIDS. Date convicted: March/April 1993 | 40 years in prison | |
| BELL, HENRY LLOYD | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: October 25, 2002 | 5 months prison, 5 months home confinement and restitution of $31,312 | |
| Belonga, Annette | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Negligence and incompetence. Date convicted: March 2003 | 6 months, 1 day suspension. | |
| BELOVE, PHILLIP | psychologist | U.S. Vermont |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: July 2, 1999 | Up to 10 years in prison (deferred for 2 years), probation, ordered to pay $265 dollars restitution and perform 40 hours of community service | |
| BELTAIN, MURLIN | school counselor | Canada Vancouver |
| Carrying on a lesbian relationship with a 16-year-old student. Date convicted: March 17, 1995 | 30 days in jail | |
| BENITEZ, RAY | former mental health agency case manager | U.S. Arizona |
| Second-degree murder--shot and killed a 21-year-old woman. Date convicted: March 12, 2001 | 16 years prison. | |
| BENKERT, OTTO | psychiatrist | Germany Mainz |
| Not paying, to the university where he worked, a required 30% of fees he received for conducting drug studies for pharmaceutical companies. Date convicted: November 2000 | 11 months in jail, probation and fined | |
| Benn, Stanley J. | community mental health center owner | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid-related conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| BENNETT, MICHAEL | school counselor | Canada Vancouver |
| Luring 2 teenage girls into working as prostitutes. He had prior convictions for narcotics possession and fraud. Date convicted: January 30, 1997 | 3 years in prison (plus 8 months already served) | |
| BENNETT, WILLIAM | high school counselor | U.S. OHIO |
| Pleaded guilty to molesting 2 teenaged boys and harrassing 4 others. Date convicted: May 24, 1999 | 4 years in prison and had to surrender his teaching and counseling licenses | |
| BENNETT, NORYNE | social worker | Canada Ontario |
| Sexual exploitation of a teenage boy she counselled. Date convicted: April 1, 2003 | One year probation. | |
| Bennett, John | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Sex with patient Date convicted: January 28, 2012 | 2 years jail | |
| BENNETT II, JOHN | psychiatrist | U.S. New Mexico |
| Having sex with a former patient. Date convicted: April 17, 2000 | 9 years in prison (deferred), 5 years probation, ordered to register as a sex offender and prohibited from practicing while on probation | |
| BENNETT JR., JOHN | former drug counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Running a $354 million dollar charity scam. Date convicted: September 22, 1997 | 12 years in prison | |
| Benoit, Elissa Jo | mental health clinic owner | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| 76 counts of health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, distribution of controlled substances, and distribution of controlled substances to minors. Date convicted: June 12, 2012 | To be sentenced | |
| BENTLEY, GRAHAM | counselor | U.K. Hinckley |
| Posing as a licensed psychologist, committing perjury and theft of more than 13,500 pounds from a volunteer organization and 805 pounds from a client. Date convicted: April 9, 1998 | 2 1/2 years in jail | |
| Bentley III, William F. | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Lied about credentials and financial status to bilk clients and their families of $800,000 under the pretense of starting up an ADHD treatment clinic. Date convicted: July 8, 2005 | Nine years prison. | |
| Bera, Charalena | counselor | U.S. Colorado |
| Sexual assault of teenage boys at the treatment center where she worked. Date convicted: August 28, 2007 | 10 years probation. | |
| Berecz, John M. | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Criminal sexual conduct (sex with patient). Date convicted: December 14, 2007 | 90 days jail with last 30 on electronic monitoring, 5 years probation, $3920 fines and costs and ordered to register as a sex offender. | |
| Berfield, Keith A. | Psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| On October 17, 2014, the Port St Lucie (FL) Police Department arrested Berfield for felony possession of controlled substances and cocaine and misdemeanor possession of marijuana and paraphernalia after being found standing naked at a public intersection where he appeared to be hallucinating. When he led police to his nearby residence, they found LSD, crystal meth and other drugs. He was convicted under a plea of Nolo Contendre on multiple counts of possession of controlled substances. Date convicted: September 17, 2015 | 2 years Drug Offender Probation | |
| Berfield, Keith A. | Psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Possession of various controlled substances per his Florida arrest in 2014 and conviction in 2015. Date convicted: September 26, 2016 | License suspended actively for one year followed by at least 3 years probation | |
| BERGMANN, BARRY | lead mental health technician | U.S. Nevada |
| statutory sexual seduction (fondled a teenage female patient). Date convicted: February 9, 2004 | 24-to-60 months prison | |
| BERKSHIRE, JASON HERBERT | mental health employee | U.S. Arkansas |
| A sexual encounter with a 16-year-old girl at a home for at-risk youth. He had a prior 1997 conviction for forgery and theft. Date convicted: December 1998 | 10 years in prison (8 years suspended) | |
| Berman, Mark | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal fraud Date convicted: October 15, 2010 | 5 years probation and restition of $152,058. | |
| Bernzott, Michael | psychiatrist | U.S. Alaska |
| Brought a loaded handgun to a treatment meeting and let patient point it at staff members. Date convicted: October 2004 | License revoked. | |
| BERRY, CHARLES MARKHAM | Psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Sexual molestation of 6 boys who had been his patients and possession of child pornography (he pleaded guilty). Date convicted: July 18, 1986 | 20 years in prison and 20 years probation | |
| Bershatsky, Deborah | psychoanalyst | U.S. Vermont |
| Between November 1999 and February 2000, Bershatsky received M.A., B.A. and Doctorate degrees from an online distance learning program which was not accredited by a national psychoanalytic society; Between 1978 and 1982, she attended a school for psychoanalysis but did not complete the 450 hours of supervision required for certification; in December 1998, she received a certificate to practice psychoanalysis which required she have a Masters or Doctorate degree (which she did not acquire until later); she lied on her application for license to practice psychoanalysis, misrepresenting the date she received her certificate and stating that she was a member of a national psychoanalytic organization when in fact, the organization had denied her application twice for lack of a Masters degree from an accredited institution. Date convicted: April 6, 2004 | Voluntarily resigned her certificate to practice psychoanalysis to the state, which rendered it null and void. In October 2004, Bershatsky was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Beuttner, Anne | mental health practictioner and psychologist associate | U.S. Nebraska |
| Prepared and submitted a professional report to the Nebraska State Patrol without first obtaining a co-signature from her supervising psychologist. Date convicted: April 2004 | License suspended for 90 days. | |
| Bickelhaupt, Ethan | psychiatrist | U.S. Kansas |
| Unlawfully prescribing controlled substances. Date convicted: September 3, 2010 | 3 years probation. | |
| BIEGANOWSKI, ARTHUR | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Insurance fraud involving workers' compensation claims. Date convicted: September 14, 2000 | 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $23 million in restitution | |
| BINGHAM, DAVID | drug counselor | U.K. Stourbridge |
| Murdering a female coworker. Date convicted: February 28, 1991 | Life in prison | |
| Biondi, Giovanni | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Gross negligence, gross incompetence, negligence on more than one occasion, incompetence on more than one occasion, willful patient abuse, failure to maintain records and moral unfitness. The documents of the New York Board for Professional Medical Conduct state that "there is substantial circumstantial evidence regarding a sexual relationship" between Biondi and a female patient but that the Board's Hearing Committee did not make that ultimate conclusion. The documents further state that "The Hearing Committee has no doubt regarding the existence of an abusive relationship between [Biondi] and [the patient]. In 1998, on two occasions, [Biondi] struck [the patient] and threw her to the ground. Respondent breaks any rule he wishes by justifying his 'treatment' as innovative or experimental." Lastly, the documents list other aspects of Biondi's conduct which were not taken up in the Board's hearing but which the Board found "disconcerting." They include: "Having sessions at midnight; Meeting patients in his van...; Having business relationships with a patient...; The likelihood that the 'therapy' for [the aforementioned female patient] was really about more & more sessions resulting in more & more billing, sleeping over [another patient's] house [and] Accompanying [another patient] to a casino," among other things. Date convicted: August 24, 1999 | License revoked. | |
| Bird, Lee | licensed clinical social worker | U.S. New Hampshire |
| Theft by deception. Bird obtained reimbursements from Medicaid (U.S. government health plan) by continuing to bill for services rendered to some clients after he stopped seeing those clients. Date convicted: February 5, 2009 | 6 months incarceration and restitution of $21,700. | |
| Biros, Dennis | psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin, Minnessota, Alaska |
| Sexual contact with a patient. Date convicted: July 11, 1992 | License suspended in state of Wisconsin for five years with suspension stayed; ordered by board to undergo psychotherapy. | |
| BISH, JODY | former group home counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl in his care. Date convicted: March 7, 2002 | 6-to-14 years in state prison. | |
| BITTMAN, STANLEY | psychologist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: Circa 1991 | Ordered to pay a $500 fine and given a 1 year sentence, suspended for two years | |
| BLACK, JAMES NEVILLE | drug and alcohol recovery center board member | U.S. Georgia |
| Embezzling approximately $300,000. Date convicted: August 21, 1996 | 21 months in prison, ordered to pay $298, 976 in restitution and to do 100 hours of community service | |
| Black, Virginia | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Impaired objectivity, dual relationships. Date convicted: March 2003 | License revoked 5 years. | |
| BLAND, JAMES H. | psychiatrist | U.S. North Dakota |
| Criminal mischief; breaking in to a mobile home and breaking personal items while he was there. Date convicted: May 23, 1997 | Two-years deferred | |
| BLANDING, LARRY | therapist | U.S. South Carolina |
| Bribery and extortion while he was a state representative in 1991. Date convicted: December 15, 1999 | 2 1/2 years in prison | |
| Blank, Gail Ann | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Felony drunk driving conviction. Date convicted: April 2003 | License revoked | |
| Blankstein, Edward G. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| Blankenstein received a 3rd citation for poor record-keeping and was also cited for "failure to properly dispense medications." Date convicted: February 7, 2008 | Letter of Reprimand, forced to surrender his dispensing certificate | |
| Blankstein, Edward G. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Based on the Feb 7, 2008 disciplinary action taken by Arizona. Date convicted: December 18, 2008 | License Surrendered | |
| Blankstein, Edward G. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| After receiving a complaint reporting that Blankstein had been arrested and charged with three counts of acquisition or administration of dangerous drugs (in 2015; criminal charges eventually dismissed), the records for five of Blankstein's patients were sent to a Medical Consultant for review who found that Blankstein deviated from the standard of care with regard to all five patients. For example, the Consultant found that Blankstein deviated from the standard of care with regard to monitoring patients to whom he prescribed controlled substances, prescribing and monitoring patients with atypical antipsychotic medication and for monitoring patients taking Depakote. Blankenstein denied that he breached the standard of care with regard to the five patients but admitted he had a health condition that prohibits him from safely practicing medicine. Date convicted: August 5, 2016 | License Surrendered | |
| BLASI, KENDALL | youth counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Sexually abusing 11-year-old twin brothers, whom he had taken into his home. Date convicted: December 8, 2000 | 521 years in prison | |
| BLIER, MICHAEL | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Sexually assaulting a woman patient. Date convicted: June 6, 1997 | 1 year in prison, followed by 2 years probation | |
| BLIGH, MARTIN | child psychiatrist | U.K. London |
| Importing child pornography and downloading indecent pictures from the Internet. Date convicted: November 1997 | Fined 5000 pounds | |
| BLONDEK, STAN | unlicensed psychologist | U.S. California |
| A judge found he deliberately withheld documents during a parole hearing showing a jailed sex offender and murderer was still a sexual sadist. It was also revealed in court that Blondek was not licensed by the State of California to practice psychology. His application for a license was last denied in August 2002 by the State of California for Dishonesty, Fraud and/or Deceit and other violations of the California Business and Professions Code. Date convicted: August 9, 1999 | 2 days in jail for contempt of court | |
| Bloom, Steven | social worker | U.S. Minnesota |
| Disorderly conduct (sent inappropriate text messages to a female student). Date convicted: May 16, 2011 | 1 year probation. | |
| BLOOMFIELD, HAROLD | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Prescribed/furnished a controlled substance for no legitimate medical reason (drugged women without their knowledge). Date convicted: March 22, 2002 | 5 years probation and surrender of right to prescribe controlled substances (he spent 6 days in custody prior to sentencing). On May 28, 2002, Bloomfield surrendered his medical license to the Medical Board of California. | |
| BLOOR, ELIZABETH GAY | psychotherapist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 22, 1993 | 5 years probation, 300 hours community service and fined $7,500 and restitution | |
| Bobcean, Diane Jean | social worker and marriage and family therapist | U.S. Michigan |
| Convicted of causing the death of a man while operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Was also convicted for failing to stop at the scene of an accident. Date convicted: January 16, 2004 | Both marriage & family therapist license and social work licenses were summarily suspended. Ultimately, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs ordered her to do community service and placed her license on probation. | |
| BOCK, GRAHAM | psychiatric nurse | South Austrailia Adelaide |
| Aggravated domestic battery (struck a patient in the head more than 20 times with a large pair of pliers). Date convicted: September 26, 2002 | 4 years prison and a court order to stop violent or harrassing behavior toward the victim for two years following completion of the prison term. | |
| BOEHM, GREGORY X. | psychiatrist | U.S. Ohio |
| Medicare and Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 9, 2001 | 2 years probation (the first 6 months of which are to be spent under home detention), fined $15,000 and ordered to repay $71,370 to Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs. | |
| BOLAN, BERT WAYNE | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Receiving payments (called "kickbacks") for sending patients to a particular psychiatric hospital, which in turn billed insurance companies for counseling sessions that never occurred. Date convicted: April 15, 1995 | More than 8 years in jail and fined $375,000 | |
| BOLAND, GREGORY H. | psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| Beating up his fiancee's baby-sitter. Date convicted: October 1996 | 7 years in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine | |
| BOLDEN, DARRYL | rape counselor | U.S. New York |
| Raping and robbing 3 women he'd visited for erotic massages. Date convicted: November 8, 2000 | 24 years in prison | |
| BOLEY, JAMES | counselor | U.S. Missouri |
| Trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-wife. At the time Boley was already serving 2 life prison terms for trying to poison his wife in 1993. Date convicted: August 14, 2000 | 15 years in prison | |
| Bollet, David B. | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia Date convicted: 2011 | Unknown | |
| BOLT, LEE | psychotherapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Having sex with a patient who was seeing him for sexual abuse problems. Date convicted: June 5, 1998 | 8 years probation, ordered to register as a sex offender and participate in a sex-offender treatment program | |
| Bonett, Olga | counselor | U.S. New Jersey |
| Health care claims fraud. Date convicted: January 2005 | One year probation. Bonett was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in June 2005. | |
| BONHAM, HENRY EDWARD EUGENE | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Defrauding private and federal insurance programs. Date convicted: July 14,1997 | 87 months in prison without parole and ordered to pay a $3.9 million fine | |
| Bonner, Linda | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Convicted for burglary. Date convicted: January 2004 | Application for counseling credential denied. | |
| Booker, Varanise | psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Heath care fraud Date convicted: June 16, 2022 | Thirty-six months prison | |
| Booth, John | psychiatrist | Australia |
| Prescribed a 60-year-old victim of attempted sexual abuse excessive dosages of three antidepressants. Date convicted: September 2004 | Fined $3500. | |
| Borchert, Monica Lisa | mental health case worker | U.S. North Dakota |
| Mistreatment of a confined person. Borchert gave alcohol and marijuana to patients and played games with them that required the removal of clothing and resulted in patients engaging in sexual contact with eachother. Date convicted: April 18, 2005 | One year jail, but suspended upon payment of $500 fine. | |
| BORISON, RICHARD | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Diverting millions of dollars of research money, meant for the university he worked for, to his own companies. Date convicted: October 8, 1998 | 15 years in prison, 15 years probation, ordered to pay $4.26 million in restitution and fined $125,000 | |
| BORKOWSKI, MELISSA | counselor | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 1999 | 3 years probation and ordered to pay $6,469 in restitution | |
| BOTJER, BRET A. | counselor | U.S. Vermont |
| Molesting a 10-year-old boy. Date convicted: September 9, 1997 | 18 months in prison | |
| BOURGUIGNON, JEAN-PIERRE | psychologist and abuse expert | U.S. Illinois |
| Charged with molesting his foster son. He fled the country just before the start of the trial. Date convicted: June 31, 1993 | 36 years in prison in absentia -- his whereabouts are still unknown | |
| BOUWER, COLIN | psychiatrist | New Zealand Dunedin |
| Murder - killed his wife by poisoning her. Date convicted: June 24, 2002 | Life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 15 years. Initially sentenced to a minimun non-parole period of 13 years in December 2001, it was increased to 15 years by the Wellington Court of Appeal on June 24, 2002. | |
| BOWERS, KENNETH | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Billing the state Medi-Cal insurance program thousands of dollars for services not rendered. Date convicted: 1994 | 6 months in jail and 5 years probation, Bowers was also ordered to pay $77,000 in restitution and penalties | |
| BOWLAN, TIMOTHY MARK | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| False claims, theft of public money and forgery. Date convicted: March 1997 | 5 months in prison and three years supervised release | |
| BRAACK, FORREST H. | psychologist | U.S. Missouri |
| Health care fraud and Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: November 21, 2002 | 3 months prison without parole and $29,370 restitution. | |
| BRADSHAW, WYNTON JOHN | psychologist | New Zealand Christchurch |
| Stole from the school where he worked. Date convicted: January 1998 | 8 months periodic detention and ordered to repay $32,697 | |
| BRADY, REBECCA | therapist | U.S. Illinois |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 1997 | Home confinement | |
| BRADY, RICHARD | psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Insurance fraud, in which he billed insurance companies for visits never made. Date convicted: January 1997 | 4 years in prison | |
| BRAGA, DJALMA A. | psychiatrist | U.S. South Carolina |
| Sexual misconduct with 3 of his patients. Date convicted: October 10, 1997 | Braga, an Air Force psychiatrist, was given a reprimand, 6 months confinement and forfeiture of $1,500 a month for 60 months | |
| Brager, Robert Charles | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| In 2014, a complaint from a colleague expressed concern for Brager's "ability to practice competently," specifically concern about his "ability to organize himself and the effect that has on his judgement" his being "absent minded," being late for appointments, and his "falling asleep because of medical complications." Brager disclosed to the Board that he had a multitude of physical and mental problems as a result of his diabetes and that he had a history of opioid dependence and alcohol abuse. It was determined that Brager was unable to safely practice as a psychologist due to his various physical ailments and mental condition. Date convicted: July 28, 2016 | License surrendered | |
| Braid, Byron S. | psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Injected patients with drug that was not FDA-approved for safety. Date convicted: 2000 | License revoked. | |
| Brailsford, Philip St. John | counselor | U.S. California |
| Criminal conviction related to Medicaid program. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| BRANCH, CURTIS | state mental hospital worker | U.S. Mississippi |
| Felony abuse of a vulnerable adult (relating to a patient who died of asphyxiation while being restrained). Date convicted: August 2001 | 5 years prison with all but 1 year suspended and 5 years probation. | |
| Branley, Louis Phillip | psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Negligent treatment of a patient with a serious case of diabetes. Branley was found to have "totally inadequate knowledge" of the management of diabetic patients. Date convicted: February 16, 1989 | License revoked. | |
| BRANNOCK, GARY WAYNE | mental health employee | U.S. Kentucky |
| Sexual abuse and attempted rape of a 29-year-old patient. In September, 1998 he was convicted for sexual abuse of a 41-year-old patient and served 90 days of a 1 year sentence. Date convicted: July 2, 1999 | 10 years in prison | |
| Brasel, Kenneth | psychologist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Falsified/concealed material facts to the Medicaid (U.S. federally funded health program) program by failing to disclose a prior felony conviction. Date convicted: December 19, 2008 | 2 years prison, probated for five years, $25,870 restitution and $6,000 in Attorney General's invest costs. | |
| Braver, Alexander | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance program fraud. Date convicted: June 1, 2006 | 3 years probation and $28,000 restitution. | |
| BRAXTONBROWN-SMITH, DENISE | psychologist | U.S. Washington D.C. |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 22, 2000 | 87 months in prison | |
| Breslin, Kenneth A. | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| On or about October 5, 2016, Breslin was arrested for possession of child pornography. Law enforcement officers discovered images and videos, on a computer in the business office of "A Child's Point of View," which is the child psychology practice owned and operated by Breslin. There were approximately 9,000 photos in one folder alone. More were found in a computer and thumb drive in his home. Date convicted: November 28, 2016 | License suspended. Criminal charges pending. Prohibited from practicing psychology until conclusion of criminal proceeding or further order of the court. | |
| BREUNING, STEPHEN | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Falsifying scientific data in his research on the use of drug therapy on mentally retarded children. Date convicted: November 10, 1988 | 60 days in prison, to be served in a work-release program, 5 years probation and ordered to pay $11,352 in restitution | |
| BRIDGES, PAUL | psychiatric consultant | U.K. London |
| His part in a child pornography ring. Date convicted: August 2000 | 15 months in prison with the sentence suspended for two years | |
| Brinley, Roxanne | psychologist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Inability to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patient by reason of misuse of drugs, alcohol and narcotics. Date convicted: June 7, 2004 | License suspended indefinitely. | |
| Brittain, Jacqueline G. | Psychologist | U.S. Hawaii |
| After receiving a complaint that Brittain failed to respond to a request by a former patient for medical records, the Board's investigation found that she was unable to practice psychology with reasonable skill and safety because of current health problems. Date convicted: February 19, 2016 | License surrendered | |
| Broche, Gabrielle | counselor | U.S. Maine |
| Sex with former patient. Date convicted: March 28, 2005 | License suspended for 90 days. | |
| BROCK, JOHN | homeless shelter and counseling center manager | U.K. Cambridgeshire |
| Allowing drug dealing to take place in the center. Date convicted: 1999 | 4 years in jail, later reduced to 7 months served | |
| BROCKMAN, NORMAN H. | school counselor | U.S. California |
| Child molestation involving several little girls at the school where he had worked. Date convicted: March 1991 | 8 years in prison | |
| Brooker, Alan Edward | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| He used alcohol "in a manner dangerous to himself or others." Specifically, he was arrested for Driving Under the Influence after he got in to a car crash. The preliminary alcohol screening test showed a blood alcohol content of 0.31%. The two people in the vehicle he hit sustained minor injuries. His license was first placed on probation starting in November 2016, and in January 2017 he voluntarily surrendered it. The probation order stated, "if respondent ceases practicing due to retirement, health reasons or is otherwise unable to satisfy the terms and conditions of probation, respondent may request the voluntary surrender of his or her license or registration." Date convicted: January 5, 2017 | License Surrendered | |
| Brooks, Rowan | marriage counselor | U.S. California |
| Murdered his wife. Date convicted: August 8, 2006 | 25 years to life in prison. | |
| BROWN, LINDA | psychiatrist | U.K. Northumberland |
| Obtaining prescription drugs through a false prescription. Date convicted: March 1999 | 6 months in prison (suspended) | |
| Brown, Nathan | psychologist | U.S. Washington |
| Unprofessional conduct, including engaging in sexual intercourse and sexual and/or physical contact with a patient in 1999; in 2000 and 2001 he monitored the former patient in public from inside his vehicle and other similar activities, including hundreds of phone calls to the patient/former patient. Date convicted: August 2004 | Prohibited from practicing for 30 months and placed on four years probation when he resumes practice. | |
| Browning, James | Counselor | U.S. Indiana |
| Possession of marijuana (police discovered 73 pot plants growing on his property). Date convicted: December 9, 2009 | Suspended sentence of 18 months at the Department of Corrections, 18 months on the Drug Abuse Probation Service and 200 hours of community service. | |
| Bryant, Willliam P. | child psychologist | U.S. Indiana |
| Child molestation. Date convicted: January 26, 2005 | Three years prison followed by and three years work release with home detention (meaning he is allowed to go to work but is otherwise confined to his home). His Indiana license was revoked April 28, 2006. His Illinois license was revoked 4/30/2010. | |
| Buchbinder, Jay A. | social worker | U.S. New York |
| Suspension or revocation of professional license. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Buchbinder, Pamela | psychiatrist | USA New York |
| First-degree attempted assault and first-degree burglary. These convictions relate to her role in the attack on the father of her child, in a plot in which she recruited her 19-year-old cousin to murder her ex-lover with a sledgehammer. Date convicted: Sept. 7, 2022 | 11 years in prison | |
| Buckler, Robert E. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Oregon |
| On February 2, 2015 ,the Oregon Medical Board issued a Complaint & Notice of Proposed Disciplinary Action against Buckler based on a possible violation of the Medical Practice Act. The Board was investigating the question of his ability to safely and competently practice medicine. On February 5, 2015, Buckler voluntarily withdrew from the practice of inpatient geriatric psychiatry and on April 7, 2016, he withdrew from the practice of medicine pending the investigation. Date convicted: July 7, 2016 | License retired while investigation pending | |
| BUFFINGTON, MICHAEL L. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Groping two female patients whom he'd hypnotized in a clinic for victims of sexual assault. Date convicted: August 25, 1997 | A year in jail, with credit given for time served awaiting trial | |
| BUKOWSKI, EDWARD | psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Aggravated domestic battery (struck a patient in the head more than 20 times with a large pair of pliers). Date convicted: May 8, 2001 | 4 years prison and a court order to stop violent or harrassing behavior toward the victim for two years following completion of the prison term. | |
| BULGER, BEVERLY | mental health office manager | U.S. Texas |
| Assisting in defrauding both private and federal insurance programs along with psychiatrist Henry Edward Eugene Bonham. Date convicted: July 14, 1997 | 46 months in prison without parole | |
| BULLARD, CAROL | mental health office manager | U.S. Georgia |
| Her part in defrauding the state Medicaid insurance program. Date convicted: May 20, 1998 | 5 years in jail and 10 years probation and held jointly liable for restitution of $377,000 | |
| BULLARD, LESTER | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding the state Medicaid insurance program. Date convicted: May 20, 1998 | 10 years in jail; 5 years probation and ordered to pay $377,000 in restitution and fined $11,500 | |
| Bumby, Kurt | psychologist | U.S. Missouri |
| Two counts of second-degree sodomy connected to events in 2010 and 2011. A victim told authorities in 2019 that he and Bumby had a sexual relationship when he was in high school. Date convicted: March 2, 2023 | To be sentenced; the jury has recommended the maximum sentence of seven years in prison. | |
| Burger, Barbara | social worker | U.S. Missouri |
| Convicted of four counts of Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: April 26, 2004 | 3 years probation and $17,000 restitution to the state Medicaid program. In March 2005, Burger was also excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| BURGESS, NORMAN | counselor | U.K. Bristol |
| Sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy. Date convicted: February 2000 | Jailed for 5 years | |
| Burgess, Alisa S. | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| She was accused of unprofessional conduct in that she was "grossly negligent and/or committed repeated negligent acts and/or was incompetent in the practice of psychology by failing to assess the possibility of and potential for domestic violence and/or failing to review potential risk and safety issues with the individual clients." Burgess agreed that were a hearing to be held, a factual basis for the accusations could be established. In order to resolve the Accusation without the expense and uncertainty of further proceedings, she surrendered her license. Date convicted: December 29, 2016 | License Surrendered | |
| BURGOS, HERNAN ENRIQUE | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Billing insurance companies for services he did not deliver to patients. Date convicted: March 19, 1998 | 46 months in prison, 3 years supervised release and a $425,000 fine | |
| BURKE, DWIGHT | counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Sexually assaulting a 17-year-old male client. Date convicted: April 21, 1992 | 23 months in prison | |
| BURKE-BAILEY, SARAH | substance abuse clinic director | U.S. Michigan |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 27, 1998 | One year probation and ordered to pay $300 | |
| BURSTEIN, DONALD A. | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: August 1, 2001 | 5 years probation, $5,000 fine and repay more than $1.7 million to the Medicaid insurance program. | |
| Burstein, Eric | psychiatrist | U.S. Ohio |
| Engaged in a sexual relationship with a patient. Date convicted: March 11, 1993 | License revoked. | |
| BURTON, LESLIE M. | school psychologist | U.S. Vermont |
| Billing a school district for therapy sessions with students on days they were not even in school. Date convicted: December 24, 1998 | 30 days in jail and $60,000 in fines | |
| Burton, Glenna C. | Psychiatrist | U.S. New Hampshire |
| On June 4, 2014, the NH Board conditionally denied Burton's application to practice medicine based in part upon a determination that Dr. Burton had not demonstrated that she was of good moral character. She failed to disclose required information about her 2010 disciplinary Settlement Agreements with the Missouri Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and with the Missouri State Board of Registration that had to do with her prescribing practices. Violations included lack of full documentation, not documenting dosage and quantity in prescriptions and prescribing after her Missouri Controlled Substance Registration had expired. Further, in a routine criminal record check, a theft charge from 2006 was found that Burton hadn't disclosed on her application. Date convicted: January 4, 2016 | Denial of licensure in New Hampshire | |
| BUTLER, CLEVELAND O. | counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Sexual misconduct with a 15-year-old girl. Butler was already on parole for a 1991 sentence for murder at the time of this sentencing. Date convicted: September 1, 2000 | 15 to 30 years in prison | |
| BUTLER, JR., PAUL G. | counseling center owner | U.S. Texas |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: April 5, 2001 | 48 months prison. | |
| BUTTON, JONATHAN | social worker and childrens | U.K. Suffolk |
| Downloading child pornography onto a childrens' charity computer. Date convicted: June 26, 2000 | 3 months in jail | |
| Buzzard, Mark | Psychiatrist | U.S. Missouri |
| A December 29, 2015 MI Medical Board Complaint against Buzzard lists numerous irregularities in his 2013 prescribing of controlled substances including Oxycodone, Ritalin, methadone, MS Contin (morphine), Percocet and Xanax. A random sampling of Buzzard's patient charts for reviews done in 2015 revealed he was prescribing larger quantities and high dosages of opioid medication without justification and committing other violations. Federal agents raided the clinic and seized Buzzard�s patient charts and on December 16, 2015 federal authorities issued criminal charges against Buzzard regarding unlawful distribution of Schedule 2 and 4 controlled substances. Date convicted: June 30, 2016 | Medical license revoked. Controlled substance license voided. Fined $10,000. | |
| BYRD, GARY JEFFERSON | child psychiatrist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Child pornography. Date convicted: December 1992 | 10 years in jail | |
| Byrd, Holly Nora | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Engaged in sexual intimacies with a former patient. Date convicted: October 2, 2013 | License suspended indefinitely. | |
| Byrum, Christopher E. | psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Abuse of controlled substances. Date convicted: February 16, 1993 | Surrendered license and surrendered it again in 1998 | |
| Cabrera, Antonio Asin | psychiatrist | Spain Canary Islands |
| Continuous crime of sexual abuse with "carnal access," involving a patient Date convicted: December 3, 2021 | Seven years and one day prison | |
| CACERES, MARIO | mental health executive | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Committing Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: Circa January 2000 | 5 years probation and $300,000 in restitution | |
| CADDELL, SHERRI | school counselor | U.S. Alaska |
| Having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Date convicted: July 16, 1999 | 6 years in prison (with 4 1/2 suspended) | |
| Caille, Charles | psychiatrist | France |
| Raped three patients. Date convicted: March 18, 2011 | 8 years prison. | |
| CAINE, IAN ROBERT | psychiatric nurse | U.K. Rotherham |
| Abuse of a patient by forcing him to drink scalding hot tea. Date convicted: January 17, 2000 | 4 months in jail | |
| Calaiacovo, David | psychologist | USA New York |
| Possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor Date convicted: July 19, 2022 | 60 months in prison and 15 years supervised release | |
| CALDERON, GONZALO H. | former college counselor | U.S. California |
| Possession of a controlled substance and burglary Date convicted: April 9, 2002 | 3 years state prison, all but 6 months suspended, less time served (approximately 140 days). | |
| Caldwell, Joel | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid and Medicare fraud Date convicted: April 2, 2012 | 5 years probation with first 60 days in jail | |
| Callum, Luz Martha | Psychologist | U.S. Oregon |
| Callum prepared a report to influence a child custody case in favor of the father who had hired her to write it. As part of the report process, Callum misrepresented her partner as a doctor, who was not in fact a licensed health care professional. Her actions caused distress to the mother and to the child. The Board ruled that she engaged in immoral or unprofessional conduct or in gross negligence in the practice of psychology, to include conduct or practice contrary to recognized standards of ethics in a manner that constitutes a danger to the health or safety of a client and otherwise perform services not consistent with the standard of care or contrary to recognized standards of practice of the psychological profession.
Date convicted: March 18, 2016 | Surrendered Under Investigation, Fined $500. | |
| CAMERON, ALISTAIR IAN | school psychologist | Canada Coquitlam |
| Sexual assault of a woman and sentenced for fondling a 13-year-old student while employed as a school counselor. Date convicted: Circa 1996 | Jailed | |
| Cameron, Paul F. | psychiatrist | U.S. Vermont |
| Sexual relationship with former patient. Date convicted: November 1997 | License suspended for 1 year. | |
| CAMPAGNA, C. THOMAS | mental health care executive | U.S. Washington DC |
| Defrauding 8 non-profit mental health care companies that provided services to deinstitutionalized, mentally retarded individuals. Date convicted: February 13, 1998 | 18 months in jail and ordered to pay his part of $3,526,966 in restitution | |
| CAMPAGNA, PAUL | mental health care executive | U.S. Connecticut |
| Defrauding 8 non-profit mental health care companies that provided services to deinstitutionalized, mentally retarded individuals. Date convicted: February 19, 1998 | 1 year and a day in jail and ordered to pay $529,045 in restituion | |
| Campbell, Oza | mental health worker | U.S. Tennessee |
| Patient abuse conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| CANTINE, SANDRA | counseling service owner | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud involving fraudulent billings for therapy sessions never delivered. Date convicted: January 1999 | 6 months in jail; 5 years probation and a judgment of $220,997 was entered against her | |
| CAPPS, ROBERT | mental health employee | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Repeated sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy. Date convicted: November 8, 1995 | 32 years in prison | |
| CARABELLA, ROBERT | mental health office manager | U.S. Kentucky |
| Medicaid insurance fraud and not reporting income he made on his taxes. Date convicted: July 27, 1999 | 1 year in federal prison | |
| Carbary, Preston | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Rape (Carbary, a mental health counselor for Child Protective Services, forced a woman to have sex with him on three occasions under threat that he would take her children away and put them in state custody). Date convicted: June 26, 2007 | 16 years prison. | |
| CARLISLE, CHRISTINE GRACE | psychiatric nurse | New Zealand Auckland |
| Manslaughter, after she pushed her partner into a river and watched him drown. Date convicted: October 13, 2000 | 3 years in jail | |
| Carlson, Craig | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Repeated chemical dependency problems. Date convicted: December 10, 2004 | License suspended. | |
| CARLTON, TIMOTHY | counseling center owner | U.S. New York |
| Stealing more than $76,000 (along with several coworkers) from Medicaid health insurance. Date convicted: November 21, 1997 | 1 to 3 years in jail and ordered to pay restitution | |
| CARMELL, SCOTT LESLIE | counselor for incest victims | U.S. Texas |
| Sexually abusing his stepdaughter. Date convicted: January 1997 | 2 life sentences | |
| Carmi, Yuval | psychologist | Israel |
| Sexual assaults of two female patients Date convicted: August 2, 2022 | 39 months prison and NIS 130,000 (approx. $39,000) in compensation to the two former patients | |
| CARMONA, ALICE YOLANDA | counselor | U.S. New Jersey |
| Billing Medicaid and practicing medicine, without a license. Date convicted: December 2, 2000 | 3 years probation | |
| CARNEY, POMP TEMPLE | psychiatrist | U.S. Mississippi |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: September 16, 1996 | Agreed to pay $301,000 in restitution, civil penalties and fines in a guilty plea | |
| CARROLL, MICHAEL JOHN | social worker | U.K. Shropshire |
| Sexual attacks on 12 boys. Date convicted: July 30, 1999 | 10 years in jail | |
| CARTER, MELODY J. | licensed clinical social worker | U.S. Missouri |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 24, 2002 | 90 days house arrest, ordered to pay $14,562 in fines, $91,118 reimbursement to the Medicaid insurance program and $25,048 in investigation, prosecution and court costs. | |
| Carter, William | psychologist | U.S. Virginia |
| Failed to maintain proper boundaries with patient; failed to establish treatment goals. Date convicted: April 2005 | License suspended. | |
| CARTWRIGHT, LOUIS "BILL" | psychotherapist | U.S. California |
| Sexual exploitation of a patient. Date convicted: September 2004 | 1 day jail, 3 years probation and 100 hours community service. | |
| CARUSO, JOHN | assisstance psychology professor | U.S. Montana |
| Having numerous images of child pornography on his computer. Three months prior to his arrest on this conviction, he was arrested in Washington State for soliciting two girls, ages 13 and 15 and was required to register there as a sex offender. Date convicted: July 27, 2004 | 40 years custody of the Department of Corrections (with 35 years suspended) which allows for home confinement; $10,000 fine and must register as a sex offender. | |
| CASADA, KAREN R. | clinical psychologist | U.S. Missouri |
| Medicare insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 23, 2001 | 5 years probation (the first 10 months of which must be spent in home detention.) | |
| Casas, Robert | psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Assaulted his father, a physician, after the father refused to write him a prescription, then proceeded to his home where he was involved in a standoff with police. Thereafter entered a full-time treatment program. Date convicted: July 31, 2002 | License was suspended. On April 20, 2004, Casas was excluded from participation in federally-funded health plans (such as Medicaid). | |
| CASEY, SIMON ANDREW | therapist | U.S. California |
| Insurance fraud and practicing psychology without a license. Date convicted: April 22, 1999 | 3 years probation, fined $30,000 and ordered to pay up to $40,000 in restitution to 2 former clients | |
| Casey, Carlie | psychologist | U.S. Washington |
| Engaged in a "dating/romantic relationship" with a patient or former patient. Date convicted: February 17, 2005 | License suspended indefinitely. In September 2005, Caseyu was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (such as Medicaid, etc.). | |
| CASSIDY, DOUG | Riverside Mental Health Association Board Member | U.S. California |
| Kidnapping. Date convicted: Circa 1979 | 3 1/2 years in prison | |
| CASSIDY, THOMAS M. | psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Defrauding several federal insurance programs. Date convicted: June 17, 1996 | 12 months in jail, 2 years probation and ordered to pay $80,645 in restitution | |
| Cattanea, Vanessa | mental health treatment director | U.S. Idaho |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: May 18, 2010 | 20 months prison | |
| Ceglarek, Thomas | marriage & family therapist | U.S. California |
| Possession of child pornography and perjury. Date convicted: June 27, 2011 | 3 years, 10 months prison. | |
| Celio, David | psychologist | U.S. Washington |
| Health care fraud: Submitted false claims for mental health counseling to the U.S. Tricare insurance plan (for families of active members of the military or reserves); illegally billed for sessions handled by phone and billed for a higher level of service than was provided. Date convicted: April 6, 2007 | 12 months, 1 day prison. Settled civil charges against him by repaying $510,264. | |
| CENICOLA, DAVID | child therapist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Molesting an 8-year-old boy. Date convicted: December 1, 1997 | 12 1/2 years in prison | |
| Censits, David Michael | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Engaging in sexual behavior with a former patient within two years of termination of treatment. Dr. Censits began treating female patient "S.Z." for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems in 2007. Dr. Censits alleges that he stopped treating patient S.Z. in November 2009, but he admits that prescriptions were issued under his name for Fluvoximine to this patient from November 2009 to November 2013. Shortly after November 2013, Dr. Censits began texting patient S.Z. in a very personal tone and made other overtures. In 2014, the relationship became sexual. At around the beginning of April Dr. Censits, who was married throughout the relationship, sent a text message to patient S.Z. that said, "I no longer wish to lead a life outside of my marriage and family." Date convicted: May 24, 2016 | License suspended indefinitely for a minimum period of nine months. Mandatory continuing education to be done no later than December 31, 2016. | |
| Cerny, Jerome | psychologist | U.S. Indiana |
| Cerny, a former Indiana State University (ISU) psychology professor was found to have acted inappropriately in the psychology laboratory. Two former ISU students testified that Cerny touched them inappropriately during a laboratory experiment concerning "ejaculation latency" or ability to maintain an erection. In his testimony, Cerny admitted to touching one of the students' penises. Date convicted: December 19, 2003 | License revoked. On August 19, 2004, Ceney was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care program (such as Medicaid) due to the revocation of his license. | |
| Cerul, Samuel Maurice | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Charged in 1988, along with another doctor, with providing drugs to other people in addition to themselves, Dr. Cerul faced 28 felony counts of bad faith distribution for prescribing a total of nearly 6,000 Percocet, 1,200 Dolophine (methadone) and thousands of doses of other drugs to seven other people, some of whom had prior drug convictions. In June 1988, he pled "no contest" to 10 misdemeanors. Date convicted: March 28, 1990 | $20,000 fine, 10 years' probation, loss of his DEA registration and a mandatory referral to an alcoholic recovery center. Two years after the 1988 criminal sentencing, the state medical board suspended his medical license's for three months followed by probation. | |
| Cerul, Samuel Maurice | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Violated federal regulations which impose a standard for the practice of the healing arts as regulated by the board. Date convicted: May 24, 2016 | Voluntary Surrender of License | |
| Ceus, Faidherbe | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Convicted of perjury. Date convicted: July 2003 | License revoked. | |
| Chambers, Andrew | Psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Boundary violations: From approximately November 2014 through April 2015, Chambers engaged in a romantic/sexual relationship with a female patient while providing her psychotherapy and medication management. He continued her treatment despite their ongoing personal/sexual relationship. In April 2015, they began cohabiting. At that time Chambers terminated the practitioner-patient relationship. Date convicted: September 9, 2016 | License was suspended for 12 months in September 2016 (this suspension was stayed in October after he completed the "Maintaining Proper Boundaries" course). Additionally, terms and conditions were placed on his license for 12 months, one of which was he "shall not engage in the practice of psychotherapy." | |
| Chansky, Daniel | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| "Inappropriate sexual conversations and contact" with a patient. Date convicted: August 1998 | License revoked. | |
| Chapman, Rosalie | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Numerous instances of alcohol intoxication both at home and at the workplace.
Date convicted: January 20, 2005 | Surrendered license. In September 2005, Chapman was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Chaudhry, Naseem | psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Misdemeanor charge of defrauding the Ohio Worker's Compensation Bureau Date convicted: June 22, 2011 | To be sentenced | |
| Chianese, Diego | psychiatrist | Italy |
| Sexual violence (rape) with aggravating circumstances. Date convicted: March 26, 2011 | 5 years, 4 months prison. | |
| Chieza, Mercy | psychologist | U.S. Texas |
| Health care fraud and money laundering of $664,215. Date convicted: March 10, 2010 | 3 years prison. | |
| Childs, Winifred | psychiatrist | Australia |
| "Intimate contact" with a patient (who was a victim of incest). Date convicted: 1990 | Struck off the medical register (comparable to license revocation). | |
| Chirinos, Edmundo | psychiatrist | Venezuela |
| Murdered a patient. Date convicted: September 29, 2010 | 20 years prison. | |
| Chisango, Aaron | mental health nurse | England Wolverhampton |
| Chisango, a Zambian immigrant who was living illegally in the UK, killed a 12-year-old boy while driving drunk and without a license or insurance. Date convicted: March 2005 | Two months jail. | |
| CHOI, JOON YOUNG | psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| Committing Medicaid and private health insurance fraud. Date convicted: February 3, 1998 | 2 years probation, 200 hours community service and ordered to pay more than $87,000 in restitution | |
| Choudhry, Muhammed | psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Felony charge of defrauding the Ohio Worker's Compensation Bureau Date convicted: June 22, 2011 | To be sentenced | |
| Choudry, Mayna Meah | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Tested positive for cocaine use.
Choudry, who was a psychiatrist at the Women's Correctional Facility in Chowchilla, California, was arrested in April 1999 on charges of rape and false imprisonment involving a woman he'd picked up and on whom he was accused of drugging into unconsciousness and sexually assaulting. It appears that he died before any prosecution could be carried out. Date convicted: April 2000 | License surrendered. | |
| CHRISTIE, HUGH | social worker | U.K. Surrey |
| Sexually and physically abusing several young girls in his care. Date convicted: July 3, 2000 | 18 months in jail | |
| Christopher, William J. | psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Engaged in sex with patient. Date convicted: April 12, 1990 | License revoked. | |
| CHUNG, DONGHA | psychiatrist | U.S. South Carolina |
| Fraudulently billing Medicaid health insurance. Date convicted: June 27, 1996 | 3 years in jail (suspended), 5 years probation and ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution | |
| CHURCHILL, MICHAEL | counselor | Canada Sarnia |
| 40 sex offenses involving young boys (he plead guilty). Churchill, while in prison, is awaiting sentencing for an additional sexual assault conviction. Date convicted: April 1998 | 9 1/2 years in prison | |
| Ciancimino, David | psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Distribution of a controlled substance without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the scope of professional practice Date convicted: May 26, 2022 | Forty-six months prisons, $25,000 fine, and $175,773 forfeiture | |
| Ciccolini, Samuel | psychiatrist | U.S. Ohio |
| Structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements, and making and subscribing a false tax return. Date convicted: October 20, 2010 | Unknown | |
| CICINELLI, RICHARD | psychiatrist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Illegally dispensing prescription drugs. Date convicted: Circa 1998 | Jailed for two year and fined $25,000. On July 14, 2003, his medical license was revoked and canceled. | |
| CINO, LOUIS C. | drug rehab executive | U.S. New York |
| Defrauding Medicaid health insurance at Aurora Concepts, Inc. Date convicted: May 23, 2000 | 5 years probation | |
| CLAIBORNE, CORDELIA | psychologist | U.S. Kansas |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: May 8, 1997 | 10 months in prison (controlling sentence), but granted 24 months probation and ordered to pay over $60,000 in restitution and costs | |
| CLAREN, PAUL R. | former psychiatric nurse | U.S. Ohio |
| 14 charges including felonious assault, retaliation and vandalism (for shooting an air rifle into the windows of the homes of former co-workers whom he blamed for dismissal from his job). Date convicted: November 21, 2001 | 10 years in a psychiatric prison ward. | |
| Clark, Anna | psychologist | U.S. Arkansas |
| Sexual assault (had sex with a prisoner she treated). Date convicted: 24-Aug-07 | 3 years prison. | |
| Clark, Denise | mh aide | U.S. New York |
| Criminal possession of stolen property and official misconduct. Date convicted: April 27, 2010 | Restitution and fines totaling more than $1,000. | |
| CLARKE, JASON | mentally disabled care manager | U.K. Market Harborough |
| Stealing money from a mentally disabled patient. Date convicted: August 2000 | 1 year in jail | |
| Cleveland, Martin | psychologist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Engaged in sex with patient, whom he later married. Date convicted: October 2005 | License suspended for 6 months. | |
| Clover, Alan | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Failed to tell his superiors he was being overpaid by mistake; collected an extra £32,151 ($49,835). Date convicted: May 17, 2010 | 30-month community order (probation). | |
| Co, Rufino Tan | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Persuaded two of his patients and the mother of a third patient to buy and then sell products through a multi-level marketing scheme from which he earned money. Date convicted: January 2005 | License suspended 30 days. | |
| COADY, HENRY | child psychologist | Canada Ottawa |
| Sexually abusing several children who had been his patients. Date convicted: September 27, 1991 | 2 years in jail and 3 years of probation | |
| COATES, JR., RANDY | residential treatment center counselor | U.S. New York |
| Sex with two teenage girls he was counseling. Date convicted: June 6, 2002 | 6 months jail and court supervision for 10 years. | |
| COBB, KEVIN | psychiatric nurse | U.K. London |
| Drugging and raping two women and killing a third one with the drugs he used to render his victims unconscious before raping them. Date convicted: July 7, 2000 | 7 life sentences | |
| COCHRAN, GERALD DENOREH | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Health care fraud and conspiracy to defraud the US government. Date convicted: September 21, 2001 | 5 months prison, 5 months home confinement and restitution in excess of $480,000. | |
| COHEN, ROBERT | psychiatric clinic manager | U.S. New York |
| Helping two psychiatrists defraud the state Medicaid insurance program of more than $1.3 million. Date convicted: 1991 | 4 to 12 years in jail and ordered to pay $250,000 in restitution | |
| COHEN, RONALD I. | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: July 12, 2002 | 6 months prison. | |
| Coleman, Patrick L. | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Engaged in sex with a patient. Date convicted: February 23, 2004 | License surrendered. | |
| COLLINS, CLAYTON | youth counselor | U.S. California |
| Not registering as a sex offender in connection with an earlier conviction of sexually harassing and assaulting several teenage and adult women. Date convicted: October 6, 2000 | 4 years in jail | |
| COLLINS, LESLIE E. | child sex-abuse counselor | U.S. Nebraska |
| Sexually molesting his young stepdaughters. Date convicted: September 1997 | 30 to 50 years in jail | |
| COLLINS, TERRY | psychologist | Canada Vancouver |
| Sexually abusing 3 children, 1 of them his stepdaughter. Date convicted: 1997 | 30 months in prison | |
| COMSTOCK, GRAYDON EARL | school counselor | U.S. Kansas |
| Aggravated indecent liberties with a child and is currently awaiting sentencing for possession of child pornography. Date convicted: May 2000 | Nearly 5 years in prison | |
| CONE, WILLIAM | psychiatrist | U.S. Missouri |
| Sexual assault and deviate sexual assault of female patients. Date convicted: February 10, 1998 | 133 years in jail. On November 28, 1995, the state of Missouri revoked his medical license for sexual misconduct. The Board had also placed Cone on 5 years probation on December 19, 1978 for sexual improprieties with a patient. | |
| Cone, William | psychiatrist | U.S. Missouri |
| Sexual misconduct. Cone had also been placed on 5 years probation on December 19, 1978 for sexual improprieties with a patient. That probation was terminated on March 10, 1984.
Date convicted: November 28, 1995 | License revoked. | |
| CONNORS, ROGER | counselor | U.K. London |
| Raping 2 teenage girls. Date convicted: January 24, 1995 | 9 years in jail | |
| COOK, DAVID F. | psychiatrist | Canada Ontario |
| Sexually assaulting four women patients. Date convicted: March 19, 1998 | 4 years in jail | |
| COOK, GEORGE | social worker | U.S. Kansas |
| Sexually molesting a 7-year-old girl. Date convicted: July 16, 2000 | 20 years in prison | |
| Copeland, Patrick | counselor | U.S. Illinois |
| Sex with mother of minor client. Date convicted: May 2004 | License suspended for 30 days. | |
| COPLEY, JAMES | psychologist | U.S. Iowa |
| Sexual exploitation by a counselor. Date convicted: October 1998 | 5 years in jail (suspended) | |
| CORMACK, STEPHEN WAYNE | counselor | U.S. Maryland |
| Sexually abusing boys aged 11 to 13. Date convicted: August 29, 1996 | 6 months in jail followed by a year's home detention | |
| CORNISH, GEOFFREY | social worker | U.S. California |
| Sexual molestation of a 13-year-old boy he was counseling. Date convicted: September, 24, 2001 | 23 years prison. Cornish was excluded from participation in federally-funded health plans (Medicaid, etc.) in May 2003. | |
| CORSO, NICOLE | unlicensed therapist | U.S. Illinois |
| Having held herself out to be a licensed psychiatrist while providing therapy and committing financial crimes. Date convicted: September 29, 1999 | 5 years in jail and $30,000 in restitution | |
| Cosgrove, Patrick | psychiatrist | UK |
| Serious professional misconduct (wrote letters of scathing criticism to colleagues). Date convicted: July 2005 | License revoked. | |
| Costin, Avrum | psychiatrist | Canada Vancouver, BC |
| Infamous conduct (two-year sexual relationship with a patient). Date convicted: July 2003 | License suspended for 18 months. | |
| COULSON, KENNETH | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: July 12, 1996 | 18 months in jail (suspended), 48 months probation and ordered to pay more than $120,000 in restitution and investigative costs | |
| Cowan, James | Psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Dr. Cowan was engaged in the aiding and abetting of the unlicensed practice of medicine, indiscriminate prescribing of Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) and was engaged in the prescribing of CDS in the usual course of professional practice without legitimate medical purpose. On or about March 7, 2016, Dr. Cowan became unable to practice medicine due to various medical conditions and had been either hospitalized or in a nursing care facility. Despite these limitations, Dr. Cowan authorized the use of pre-signed prescription pads by an individual who was not licensed to practice medicine, that individual being his wife who was a licensed social worker but not authorized to issue prescriptions for controlled substances. Dr. Cowan's office manager stated that she believed a lot of Cowan�s patients exhibited drug seeking behavior. She revealed that, at times, prescriptions for controlled substances would be left out in the front mailbox on the porch in sealed envelopes marked with the patient�s name. Date convicted: June 13, 2016 | License suspended | |
| CRAFT, ROBERT BRUCE | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Sexual exploitation of a minor and child molestation. Date convicted: May 18, 2000 | 20 years in jail and 20 years probation | |
| CRAFT, WILLIAM | counselor | U.S. Iowa |
| Sexual exploitation of a patient. Date convicted: July 2000 | Jailed awaiting final sentencing, caught after fleeing his June sentencing | |
| CRAIG, MILES | social worker at a psychiatric treatment center for children | U.S. Florida |
| Lewd act on an 11-year-old disturbed boy. Date convicted: November 1993 | 2 years house arrest and 8 years probation | |
| Crammer, Yehuda | psychiatrist | UK |
| Concealing property to avoid paying bankruptcy debt. Date convicted: June 8, 2010 | 30 months jail. | |
| Crass, David | psychiatrist | U.S. Oklahoma |
| 23 counts of distributing a controlled substance Date convicted: August 30, 2011 | $703,335 in fines | |
| CRAWFORD, BENJAMIN | youth counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Molesting a 15-year-old girl who had come to him for help. Date convicted: November 4, 1992 | 10 years in prison | |
| CRAWFORD, JANE | director of student counseling | U.S. California |
| Stealing and selling a valuable oil painting. Date convicted: November 29, 1999 | 5 months prison and ordered to pay $41,280 in restitution | |
| CRAWFORD, QUINCY | psychiatric hospital staff | U.S. California |
| Performing lewd acts with a minor (sexual molestation of a 13-year-old female patient). Date convicted: Circa 2002 | 3 years prison. | |
| Crawford, Joanne C. | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| She engaged in acts of gross negligence constituting unprofessional conduct. She was appointed by the court in divorce case to conduct a comprehensive child custody evaluation to promote effective court orders pertaining to each parent's child custody interests. She then proceeded to communicate extensively with only one of the parents and made recommendations to the court based on representations made only by the one parent. According to California Board of Psychology, "This conduct was an extreme departure from the standard of practice of psychologists in California and constitutes gross negligence." Date convicted: December 2, 2016 | License Surrendered | |
| CREEN, JOSEPH | social worker | New Zealand Auckland |
| Sexually assaulting a woman. Creen had previous convictions for robbery and theft in 1978 and 1983. Date convicted: May 27, 1999 | 2 years in jail | |
| Crellin, Patricia | psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| Failed to report an alleged sexual assault of a patient within the 48-hour period mandated of hospital personnel by Arizona law. Date convicted: October 29, 2009 | 3 years probation and 100 community service. | |
| CRENSHAW, ROBERT | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Allowing assistants to administer pain medication to patients illegally. Date convicted: December 1998 | 10 days in jail and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service | |
| Crenshaw, Leonard | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Failure to meet "general ethical requirements." Date convicted: December 13, 2003 | License revoked. | |
| Criado Fernandez, Jose Javier | psychiatrist | Spain Seville |
| Crime against moral integrity, for the inappropriate, vulgar and humiliating treatment of one of his patients. Date convicted: June 31, 2022 | 1 year prison and 5,000 Euros ($5,170) in compensation to the former patient for moral damages | |
| CRIBB, JR., PHILLIP WAYNE | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Holding himself out as a licensed mental health counselor and forging his credentials. Date convicted: March 16, 2000 | 6 months in jail and 10 years probation | |
| Crisostomo, Flor-Mari | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| First-degree custodial sexual misconduct (Crisostomo, who counseled at a county juvenile detention center gave candy and phone privileges to an incarcerated 17-year-old boy in exchange for sexual favors). Date convicted: February 2009 | 6 months jail. | |
| CROFT, WILLIAM | counselor | U.S. Iowa |
| Sexual exploitation of a patient, failure to appear in court and tampering with witnesses. Date convicted: March 6, 2001 | 16 years prison. | |
| Crouch, Andrew | psychiatric nurse | United Kingdom |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: September 2004 | Struck off the nursing registry (license revoked). | |
| Crozier, Robert | Psychiatrist | United Kingdom |
| In October 2014, he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a female patient (hugging her and fondling her breasts) and was sentenced to four months in jail and two years probation. He had voluntarily ceased to practice medicine in February of that year, about two months after his arrest. A second patient made similar complaint of his hugging and inappropriate touching of her breasts. As a consequence of his boundary transgressions against a third patient he had treated since 1993, he made payments to her that by 2013 amounted to $150,000. According to the disciplinary committee he demonstrated �disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct� in the three cases. Date convicted: October 17, 2016 | License revoked. Ordered to pay $32,000 for therapy costs to two victims and another $5,000 for the cost of the hearing. | |
| CRUMP, ROGER ALAN | psychiatric technician | U.S. California |
| Felony grand theft (doctored timecards to list hours he did not actually work). Date convicted: July 16, 2004 | 180 days jail and 5 years probation and must repay $49,500 in bogus overtime. | |
| CRUZ, RICHARD | counselor | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Smuggling fake heroin to a prison inmate where he worked. Date convicted: July 20, 1994 | 5 years in federal prison | |
| CUMMINS, BRUCE | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Repeatedly raping a 15-year-old patient. Date convicted: 1989 | 3 years in prison | |
| Cunningham, Terrell L. | master social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: April 17, 2006 | 3 years probation and $117,500 restitution. | |
| CURRAN, BERNARD | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Aggravated indecent assault (coercing a patient into having sex). Date convicted: April 22, 2002 | 11-to-24 months house arrest, 2 years probation, $2,500 fine and ordered to never seek reinstatement of his license in Pennsylvania or any other state. | |
| CURRAN, JOAN | Psychiatric hospital director | U.S. Ohio |
| Made illegal payments (called "kickbacks") of approximately $600,000 to several sources who referred out-of-town Medicare insurance-covered patients to the hospital where she worked. Date convicted: March, 2002 | 4-month term of home confinement, 1 year probation, $30,000 restitution and $100 fine. | |
| Curtis, Joseph | social worker | U.S. Iowa |
| Possession of child pornography. Date convicted: March 27, 2009 | 64 months prison and 10 years supervised release. | |
| Curtis, Kim G. | counselor | U.S. Utah |
| Felony conviction related to controlled substances. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Cusumano, Judy | psychologist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Engaged in sex with a patient.
Date convicted: March 31, 2004 | License revoked. Cusumano's license in the state of Virginia was suspended on August 11, 2004. | |
| CZAJKOWSKI, DENIS | former psychiatric nurse | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| First-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping and related charges. (Three months after being fired from Norristown State Hospital, he took two hostages, killing one and injuring the other in a 46-hour stand-off with police). Date convicted: July 30, 2002 | Life in prison without parole and a consecutive 42 1/2-to-85 year term. | |
| D'Alelio, William | psychologist | U.S. Virginia |
| Failure to pay "one-time debt reduction assessment." Date convicted: August 2004 | License surrendered. | |
| Dabbagh, Mamoun | Psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| In 2003, between May 7th and May 9th, Dabbagh treated an 8-year old child with a multitude of psych drugs that caused the child to be admitted to a hospital ER to deal with the resulting somnolence that occurred on May 9th after an additional drug was given to the boy by another doctor. Oct 5 2003 a patient transferred to a psych unit was put under the care of Dabbagh. Dabbagh treated the patient with daily multiple psych drugs and the patient died nine days later, on Oct 14th, due to "epileptic seizures disorder" per an autopsy. Dabbagh said he would not have prescribed as many drugs as he did if he knew of other drugs the victim was being given. He found out only when he reviewed the victims medical chart after the death. Investigators found the Dabbagh's treatment of the patient to be negligent but dismissed the charge of incompetence. Date convicted: May 26, 2010 | Fined $2,000. | |
| Dabbagh, Mamoun | Psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| Knowingly financially benefited from participating in a human trafficking scheme. Dr. Dabbagh allegedly helped a trafficker forcibly drug "Jane Doe" with Adderall by providing prescriptions for pills. Date convicted: September 20, 2016 | Civil Judgement. Over $500,000 awarded to plainiff Jane Doe. | |
| Dabbagh, Mamoun | Psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| Engagement in a pattern of intentional acts of fraud or deceit resulting in harm to the health of patients under his care. Negligence - Incompetence. Lack of Good Moral Character. Drug diversion. Unprofessional Conduct. Dabbagh treated patients with combinations of multiple prescription medications often without justifications for prescribing the drugs. He prescribed them to patients without performing drug screens or liver and kidney tests even though in some cases they had a history of substance abuse or would have been likely to abuse the drugs. He gave a prescription for medical marijuana that wasn't warranted to an undercover police officer in exchange for a payment of $150. Between January 1, 2014 and February 10, 2016, Dabbagh wrote prescriptions for the five most commonly diverted and abused controlled substances at a rate much higher than usual when compared to other psychiatrists in the area he practiced.
Date convicted: February 10, 2017 | License permanently revoked. Fined $50,000. | |
| DADA, OLUMBAMIDELE | psychologist and owner of import/export business | U.S. California |
| Abandoning dangerous chemicals in a shipping facility under his import/export business. Date convicted: October 16, 2001 | 6 months home detention and ordered to pay $70,055 restitution | |
| DALLMAN, JAMES | psychiatrist. | U.S. Michigan |
| Insurance fraud and exchanging drugs for sex with a patient. Date convicted: October 23, 1997 | 1 year in jail and 5 years probation | |
| Dallman, James | psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| Sex with a patient.
The Michigan Department of Community Health also suspended Dallman's license on January 19, 1995 and October 23, 1991 for such offenses as improperly distributing medications and kissing other patients.
Dallman was also discharged from the U.S. Army after being found guilty of illegally distributing drugs while working as an Army psychiatrist. Date convicted: April 21, 1997 | License revoked for 3 years. | |
| DAMANKOS, FREDERICK J. | psychologist. | U.S. Ohio |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 13, 1991 | 18 months in jail (suspended), 3 years probation and ordered to pay $23,845 in investigative costs and restitution | |
| DANIELS, PATRICK | psychologist, who worked with children. | Canada Newfoundland |
| Importing child pornography on the internet. Date convicted: October 6, 1997 | 30 days house arrest | |
| Daniels, Edward M. | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| In September 1990, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine charged Daniels with having engaged in sexual contact with four patients beginning in the early 1960s and ending in the early 1980s. Date convicted: July 1994 | License revoked. | |
| Dariah, Gerald | Psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Five misdemeanor counts of issuing/attempting to issue blank prescriptions (which he allowed his staff to fill out for patients). Date convicted: March 7, 2008 | Less than $2,000 in fines and court costs; conviction will be cleared under "first-offender" program. | |
| Darley, Malcolm | psychiatrist | UK |
| "Kerb crawling" (soliciting sex from women on the street). Date convicted: 2008 | Fined £300 ($465). | |
| DARMARAJAH, MUTTAIYA | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Health care insurance fraud and income tax evasion. Date convicted: May, 1998 | 15 months federal prison, $900,000 restitution to the Medicare and CHAMPUS insurance programs and $29,599 plus interest and penalties to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. | |
| Darnall, Douglas | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Failed to respond to communication from the licensing board relative to three complaint it received against him; failed to release psychological records to the licensing board upon request with a release; rendered opinions about a parent in a custody matter without having observed the parent's interactions with the children; failed to adequately assess the husband of a client, relative to the husband's head injury, which may caused a traumatic brain injury and resultant cognitive deficits which might have affected his capacity to parent and failed to register as a psychological supervisee a person he used in this capacity who was not a licensed psychological assistant or otherwise qualified to practice psychology, among other things. Date convicted: May 9, 2005 | License suspended for two years, stayed, with minimum of the first six months active suspension. | |
| DARTY, GWENDOLYN | social worker. | U.S. Alabama |
| Theft of funds that belonged to residents at the mental health center where she worked. Date convicted: October 1997 | 10 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $1,200. | |
| DAVIDSON, JON R. | psychiatrist. | U.S. California |
| Sexually exploiting a sexually abused 15-year-old girl he was treating. Date convicted: 1992 | 2 years in prison | |
| DAVIDSON, MICHAEL | mental health manager. | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding Medicaid & Medicare insurance of $5.2 million, falsely claimed for procedures not provided or billed for at a higher rate than allowed. Date convicted: 1997 | 33 months in jail and 3 years probation, along with other staff at the Shankman/Davidson group | |
| DAVIDSON, THOMAS E. | mental health executive. | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding Medicaid & Medicare insurance of $5.2 million, falsely claimed for procedures not provided or billed for at a higher rate than allowed. Date convicted: January 15, 1998 | 2 years in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release along with other staff at the Shankman/Davidson group, | |
| Davidson, Aile | psychiatric nurse | Scotland Inverness |
| Forced a patient to sit unclothed in her own urine all night and verbally abused her. Date convicted: March 2005 | 120 hours community service. | |
| Davidson, Lee Andre | counselor | U.S. California |
| Criminal conviction related to Medicaid program. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| DAVIS, ESSAU | mental health nurse. | Canada Toronto |
| Raping and impregnating a mentally and physically disabled patient. Date convicted: January 11, 2000 | 4 years in prison | |
| DAVIS, GAIL | mental health executive. | U.S. Texas |
| Tampered with the records of Central Plains Mental Health Mental Retardation, where she worked. Date convicted: January 23, 1997 | 1 year of probation, 100 hours of community service and $6,000 in restitution | |
| DAVIS, GEORGE DEWEY | mental health shelter manager. | U.S. California |
| Sexually molesting a young boy. He had prior convictions for child molestation in 1981 and 1974. After his parole in 1997, Davis worked at Shelter, Inc. as a manager for more than 2 years despite his background and numerous complaints against him of abuse, fraud, negligence and false imprisonment by clients at the facility. Date convicted: 1988 | 16 years in prison | |
| DAVIS, JEAN | homeless counseling shelter operator. | U.S. Georgia |
| Mail fraud and false claims to Medicaid. Date convicted: 1997 | 2 years in prison, followed by supervised release. Davis and her co-operator were ordered to pay $949, 679 in restitution and forfeit cash and assets of approximately $450, 000 | |
| DAVIS, LANCE | domestic violence counselor. | U.S. Michigan |
| Trying to kill his wife by throwing an electric hairdryer into her shower. Date convicted: October 1998 | 1 to 5 years in prison | |
| Davis, T. Brandon | psychologist | U.S. Indiana |
| Health care insurance fraud. Date convicted: August 4, 2005 | 3 years prison and mush pay restitution of $291,427.30 to the state of Indiana. | |
| Davis, John | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sex with a patient. Date convicted: 1990 | License revoked. | |
| Davis, Thompson | psychologist | U.S. South Carolina |
| Sex with patient, boundary violations. Date convicted: November 1996 | License revoked. | |
| Dawkins, Mark | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Possession of child pornography, extreme pornography involving animals and making indecent images of children. Date convicted: August 15, 2011 | Two years probation and sex offender programs | |
| DAY, ROGER | psychiatric resident. | U.S. Minnesota |
| Sexual contact with a female patient. Date convicted: June 3, 1992 | 100 days in a county workhouse, 10 years probation and 500 hours of community service or a $10,000 fine | |
| Day, Richard | psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| Sexual assault and public indecency. Date convicted: Circa 1994 | Four years probation | |
| DAYE, WAYNE | substance abuse counselor. | U.S. North Carolina |
| Posession with intent to sell and distribute cocaine. Date convicted: October 1997 | 15 years in prison | |
| De Brito , Dirk | psychiatrist | USA California |
| Making criminal threats and assault by means of forces likely to produce great bodily injury.
NOTE: De Brito changed his name to "John Lee" circa 2021. Date convicted: May 2, 2017 | Three years’ probation with conditions which included a 52-week anger management course or 52 weeks of psychiatric counseling | |
| de la Rocha, Manuel | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Wanton endangerment (originally charged with sexual abuse, among other things) Date convicted: January 25, 2012 | Excluded from federal health plans | |
| De Los Angeles, Reynaldo Adrillana | Psychiatrist | U.S. Nebraska |
| De Los Angeles, age 70, was indicted in December 2014 and charged with nine counts of failure to pay Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes withheld from employees of his Kearney and Grand Island mental health clinics between 2008 and 2012. He withheld $131,775.28 from the employees paychecks but failed to pay the payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service as required. Dr. De Los Angeles pled guilty on October 22, 2015. Date convicted: January 20, 2016 | Required to spend eight weekends in the Dawson County jail. Probation for a term of 5 years with special conditions and order to pay $100 Special Assessment and Restitution in the amount of $131,775.28. | |
| De Los Angeles, Reynaldo Adrillana | Psychiatrist | U.S. Nebraska |
| (a.) Demonstrated unprofessional conduct by failing to maintain controlled substances purchased with his DEA permit in a controlled premises; and (b.) Demonstrated unprofessional conduct by giving himself Provigil from his office supply. Items were found in his vehicle when he was stopped by police on 8/31/2007. Date convicted: July 13, 2010 | A civil penalty of $5,000 and prohibition from keeping or transporting controlled substances. | |
| De Los Angeles, Reynaldo Adrillana | Psychiatrist | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Misrepresenting an investigation on him occurring in Nebraska on his renewal application in Oklahoma. Date convicted: November 4, 2010 | License suspended | |
| De Los Angeles, Reynaldo Adrillana | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| California license revoked due to disciplinary actions taken in Nebraska Date convicted: July 1, 2011 | License revoked | |
| De Los Angeles, Reynaldo Adrillana | Psychiatrist | U.S. Nebraska |
| Dr. De Los Angeles demonstrated unprofessional conduct by failing to conform to the standard of care regarding his prescribing, maintenance, and record keeping of controlled substances, and by engaging in sexual misconduct. Date convicted: July 12, 2012 | Suspended for no less than 1 year. Reinstated 12/12/2014. | |
| De Los Angeles, Reynaldo Adrillana | Psychiatrist | U.S. Kansas |
| Fraud or misrepresentation in the renewal of his Kansas license in 2010 and 2011 in that he failed to report adverse actions to the Kansas Board, namely the disciplinary actions against his license in other states. The adverse actions stem from a 2010 Nebraska discipline for improper prescribing. Date convicted: December 31, 2012 | Kansas State Board of Healing Arts denied Dr. De Los Angeles' Application for License Designation Change to Active Status | |
| De Los Angeles, Reynaldo Adrillana | Psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| Arizona revoked his medical license due to disciplinary action against his license in Nebraska. Date convicted: December 12, 2013 | License revoked | |
| De los Angeles, Reynaldo | psychiatrist | USA Nebraska |
| Third-degree sexual assault involving a former female patient Date convicted: August 4, 2022 | To be sentenced September 2022 | |
| DE LOS HEROS, REINALDO | psychiatrist. | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Fraudulent billing. Date convicted: March 13, 1997 | 2 years in jail (suspended), 3 years probation and ordered to pay $295,681 in fines and restitution. On June 23, 1998, de los Heros' Massachusetts medical license was revoked. | |
| DEANS, DARREN | psychiatric nurse trainee. | U.S. Melbourne |
| Killing a man during a fight and covering up the death. Date convicted: August 23, 1999 | 4 years in jail | |
| Dearden, Emily | Psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Dearden, a former NYPD psychologist, was accused of trying to kill her husband by shooting him in the head in 2013 while he slept, around 4 am. This occurred just a few feet away from where their daughters were sleeping. Her husband survived, and she pleaded guilty in February 2017 to first-degree attempted assault.
Date convicted: June 8, 2017 | 3 1/2 years in prison. | |
| DEARMAN, CHRISTOPHER | therapist. | U.K. North Yorkshire |
| Raping and assaulting a woman he claimed to be helping beat drug addiction. Date convicted: March 10, 1998 | 8 years in jail | |
| DEBOLT, DONALD | psychologist. | U.S. Illinois |
| Pleaded guilty to charges of 2nd degree criminal sexual conduct for sexually abusing a mentally impaired patient during therapy sessions. Date convicted: April 1994 | Prosecutors recommended a 5 year probation, the last year to be served in jail | |
| DECAULP, PAUL JAMES | family therapist. | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Giving a massage to a 17-year-old. Date convicted: January 10, 1994 | 90 days in jail and fined $500 | |
| DEGUZMAN, ANTONIO | adolescent psychiatrist. | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Sexually assaulting 3 young boys who had been his patients. Date convicted: March 24, 1998 | 3 to 4 years in prison followed by 15 years probation | |
| DEL CAMPO, VYVIAN | mental health billing clerk. | U.S. Florida |
| Billing Medicaid insurance for more time than her psychiatrist husband spent with patients. Date convicted: July 27, 1992 | supervised probation for 6 months, ordered to perform 100 hours community service and to pay restitution and costs totaling $5,702 | |
| Delagassi, Rene | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Sex with a patient. Date convicted: February 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Delia, Stephen W. | Psychiatrist-Family Medicine | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Prescribing violations, criminal violations of state and federal laws, aiding or abetting a criminal operation, failure to provide a proper and safe medical facility setting and qualified assistive personnel, and aiding or abetting the unlicensed practice of medicine. In October 2010, when Delia was deployed to Afghanistan, he presigned about 5,600 prescriptions for his medical staff to use while he was serving in the Army Reserves and thousands more before then. From Oct. 14, 2010 to Nov. 5, 2010, the clinic documented 452 patient visits with treatment by only the LPNs and physician assistant, and with no physician supervision, as required by law. Date convicted: March 8, 2012 | License Surrendered | |
| Delia, Stephen W. | Psychiatrist-Family Medicine | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Found guilty of health care fraud by a federal jury. From February 1, 2010 through November 9, 2010, Delia defrauded money and property of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority by causing the filing of false claims and receiving Medicaid payments for medical services not rendered by a qualified medical professional. In preparation for deployment to Afghanistan, Delia presigned thousands of blank prescriptions for his unsupervised physician�s assistant and nursing staff to disseminate Schedule II narcotics during his absence from the Delia Medical Clinic. Date convicted: September 29, 2016 | Guilty of health care fraud. The jury found that the defendant should forfeit $83,769.27 in assets as part of any sentence imposed. | |
| DelPezzo, Elizabeth | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Engaged in business and personal relationships with several clients. Date convicted: December 24, 2002 | Permanently surrendered license. | |
| DeMartini-Scully, Diane | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Endangering the welfare of a child and criminal contempt. (She was charged in New York with having sex with a 16-year-old boy who had dated her own daughter. She was also convicted of child abuse in North Carolina [where the boy's family had moved] where she also again had sex with the boy and smoked marijuana with him.) Date convicted: August 10, 2006 | 6 years probation. | |
| DEMASI, JOSEPH | psychiatrist. | U.S. New York |
| Molesting a 10-year-old boy and two other boys, he was returned to prison for violating conditions of his parole by having contact with young children. Date convicted: Circa 1992 | 7 years in prison and on parole | |
| DEMBRY, ANTHONY | youth counselor. | U.S. Colorado |
| Sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy and placing him at risk of contacting HIV. Dembry is HIV positive. Date convicted: March 13, 2000 | 20 years to life in prison | |
| DENNIS, TAMMYE LYNN | mental health care aide | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Abuse by a caretaker. Date convicted: November 25, 2002 | On 10/12/01, Ms. Dennis was sentenced to 3 years prison with all but 30 days suspended. The 30 days were deferred until 11/25/02, based on her meeting sentence requirements: restitution of $231, 50 hours of community service, enrollment and attendance in an anger management class and court costs of $600. However, she failed to repay the court costs by 11/25/02, which activated the 30 day jail sentence. | |
| Dennis, Gregory "Brent" | Psychologist | U.S. Nevada |
| He allegedly obtained controlled substances from a drug dealer and his own patients, and he admitted to having a drug addiction. Date convicted: February 7, 2017 | License Suspended | |
| Dennis, Gregory "Brent" | psychologist | U.S. Nevada |
| Voluntary manslaughter (involving the death of his wife) Date convicted: May 10, 2022 | Ten years prison | |
| DeSilva, Bernard | Psychiatrist | U.S. Ohio |
| From July 2004 To April 2014, DeSilva engaged in irregular prescribing of psychotropic medications and failed to provide sufficient documentation. He failed to perform proper psychiatric evaluations. In some cases he overprescribed and prescribed without providing a rationale for the drugs he was prescribing.
Date convicted: May 11, 2016 | License permanently revoked | |
| Desmarais, Gilles | psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona, Massachusetts, Nevada |
| Sex with patient.
In March 1995 the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine found Dr. Desmarais engaged in misconduct by beginning a sexual relationship with a patient. Desmarais, who was married at the time, advised his wife that he was going to leave her and marry his patient. His wife committed suicide and state documents state that Desmarais moved his patient into his home that same evening. As a result of the Massachusetts action, the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners took action against Dr. Desmarais, for behavior that "was not just unprofessional but unconscionable." Date convicted: November 30, 2007 | Surrendered Nevada license November 30, 2007. The Massachusetts Board revoked his right to renew his license in March 1995. He also surrendered his Arizona medical license in December 1995. | |
| DEVALLE, DAVID | psychologist | U.K. Wales |
| Dangerous driving (reversed his car into a cyclist, hitting his bike). Date convicted: December 10, 2001 | 3 months in jail, ordered to pay 550 pounds in costs and banned from driving for 1 year. | |
| DEVAUGHN, THOMAS | psychiatrist. | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: October 5, 1992 | 30 months in prison (suspended), 1 year probation and costs and restitution totaling more than $18,000 | |
| DEVRIES, DANIEL J. | psychiatrist. | U.S. Michigan |
| Clubbing his wife over the head with a hammer 9 times during a dispute. Date convicted: September 1992 | 6 to 10 years in prison | |
| DEVRIES, DEAN | counselor. | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sexually assaulting a mentally disabled woman. Date convicted: Circa 2000 | 1 year in jail and 10 years probation | |
| DEWITT, KEVIN | mental health administrator. | U.S. California |
| Using phony documents to land a high ranking county mental health job. Date convicted: March 30, 2000 | 120 days in jail, 3 years probation and fined $200 | |
| DeYoung, Robert | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Charged by licensing board with engaging in a sexual affair with the wife of a patient. Date convicted: July 14, 2005 | Surrendered license permanently. | |
| DIAMOND, BRUCE I. | professor and drug researcher. | U.S. Georgia |
| His part in diverting millions of dollars of research money, meant for the university he worked for, to companies owned by him and his partner, psychiatrist Richard Borison. Date convicted: December 1997 | 5 years in prison, 10 years probation and to pay $1.1 million in restitution | |
| DIAS, ALBERT | mental health executive. | U.S. Massachusetts |
| His part in defrauding 8 non-profit mental health care companies that provided services to de-institutionalized, mentally retarded individuals. Date convicted: January 20, 1998 | 9 months community confinement | |
| DIAS, P. KITSHEN | psychiatrist. | U.S. New York |
| Unlawfully selling prescriptions of a tranquilizer. Date convicted: October 5, 1992 | 6 months in jail, probation for 4 1/2 years and 500 hours of community service | |
| Dicke, John | psychologist | U.S. California |
| License was limited due to use of inappropriate methods of treatment but license was taken away when it became apparent that Dicke would not adhere to regulations or limitations on his methods. Date convicted: November 2003 | License revoked. | |
| DICKERSON, NATASHA DENISE | psychiatric hospital technician | U.S. South Carolina |
| Abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult resulting in death (accessory to placing an elderly patient in a scalding bath which resulted in severe burns; delayed in getting medical attention for the patient, who died 7 days later). Date convicted: November 7, 2001 | 20 years prison (suspended upon service of 45 days) and 3 years probation. | |
| Dicovsky, Claudio I. | Psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| On July 17, 2013, Dr. Dicovsky pled guilty to charges of accepting more than $224,000 in bribes from Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services(BLS) in New Jersey in exchange for his referral of blood specimens as part of a long-running scheme which its organizers have admitted involved millions of dollars in bribes and resulted in more than $100 million in payments to BLS from Medicare and various private insurance companies. He was one of 22 doctors who pled guilty in the operation. Date convicted: January 5, 2015 | Three years' probation which includes one year of house arrest with electronic monitoring. Also, fined $75,000 and assigned 1,500 hours of community service. He must also forfeit more than $222,000. | |
| Dicovsky, Claudio I. | Psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| On July 17, 2013, Dr. Dicovsky pled guilty to charges of accepting bribes in connection with referrals of laboratory testing services. An Administrative Complaint was filed with the medical board on March 11, 2014 based on the guilty plea. Date convicted: February 11, 2015 | License revoked. Ineligible to reapply for three years. Must pay a $10,000.00 civil penalty. | |
| Dicovsky, Claudio I. | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Pleaded guilty to bribery charges on Jan 5, 2015. Date convicted: May 21, 2016 | License surrendered | |
| Didenkowski, Nicholas | psychologist | Australia Ballarat, Victoria |
| Indecent assault and unlawful assault (touched a 17-year-old female patient on her chest and pelvic area during treatment). Date convicted: October 21, 2008 | 6 months' jail suspended for two years on the indecent assault charge; fined $1000 on the unlawful assault. | |
| DIDES, JURJI WADI | psychiatrist | U.S. North Dakota |
| Sexually exploiting a 16-year-old male patient. Date convicted: May 8, 1991 | 3 years in prison (suspended) and 3 years supervised probation | |
| Dilday, James "Kurt" | psychiatrist | U.S. Ohio |
| Overcharging for services not performed and over-prescription of dangerous and/or addictive drugs.
Date convicted: October 12, 2006 | License permanently revoked. | |
| Dill, Gregory | psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Defaulted on school loan or scholarship. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| DILLON, PETER JOHN | psychologist | Canada Vancouver |
| Sexual abuse of a 7-year-old girl. Date convicted: July 22, 1987 | 1 year in prison | |
| Dilsaver, Gregory C. | Psychologist | U.S. Idaho |
| Dr. Dilsaver breached his ethical duties to Client NF. On April 24, 2013, Client NF flew to Idaho for treatment at Dilsaver's facility. Dilsaver's specialized treatment group never materialized and NF was effectively left on his own. Dilsaver told NF's mother that he did not have time for NF. Dilsaver failed to provide NF with group treatment which had been promised and failed to provide reports to the Court (who had released NF to Dilsaver's care). Date convicted: April 20, 2016 | License revoked. Fined $8,000. | |
| Dilsaver, Gregory C. | Psychologist | U.S. Washington |
| License was revoked in Idaho due to unprofessional conduct. Date convicted: June 6, 2017 | License suspended for at least 5 years. | |
| DINKLE, ARTHUR | clinical social worker | U.S. New Jersey |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 4, 2003 | 2 years probation and ordered to pay $45,281 in restitution. | |
| Dipinto, Dennis | marriage & family counselor | U.S. Rhode Island |
| Engaged in sex with the wife of married couple he was counseling. He encouraged the wife to divorce and then he became engaged to the woman. Date convicted: September 2005 | License suspended for 5 years. | |
| Dippel, John A. | psychiatrist | U.S. Washington |
| Admitted to having sex with a female patient.
Date convicted: October 24, 2003 | License revoked. | |
| DITTON, MARY JANE | psychiatrist | Australia Brisbane |
| Medicare insurance fraud. Date convicted: 1997 | 2 1/2 years in jail and ordered to repay nearly $35,000 | |
| Dobbs, John | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| He engaged in sexual misconduct, exploited a former patient, failed to safeguard patient records, failed to timely report a malpractice settlement agreement, and failed to cooperate in the Board's investigation. Dobbs began treating a female patient in October of 2012 after she had separated from her husband and was grieving over the death of her father. Dobbs terminated the treatment in February 2013 and initiated a sexual relationship. After a month, the patient requested Dobbs to refrain from contacting her as the relationship caused her "profound confusion." Dobbs continued to pursue the personal and sexual relationship and it continued through July 30, 2014 when the patient ended it. He failed to timely report a $3,000 malpractice settlement agreement with the patient, and the agreement included provisions that prohibited the patient from cooperating with any Board investigation. He also failed to keep adequate records of his treatment of the patient. Date convicted: July 27, 2016 | License surrendered | |
| Dobrowolski, Stanley | psychotherapist | Canada Ontario |
| Professional misconduct with female university students. Date convicted: December 2004 | License suspended six months. | |
| DOBSON, RICHARD D. | substance abuse counselor | U.S. New Jersey |
| Repeatedly raping his stepdaughter and threatening her with guns and knives. Date convicted: March 20, 1998 | Nearly 25 years in jail | |
| Doe, John | psychiatric nurse | Bahrain N/A |
| Grand larceny (theft) - submitted thousands of false claims to the Medicaid and Medicare insurance programs for psychiatric services that were never rendered. Date convicted: October 2005 | $436,628.00 restitution and 3-year conditional discharge same as a suspended sentence, in which the defendant must comply with certain conditions or else they will have to serve the time). | |
| Doebler, Dorothy | mental health counselor and marriage & family therapist | U.S. Washington |
| Poisoned animals (fed a neighbor's dog hamburger laced with gopher poison). Date convicted: June 30, 2008 | 360 days jail with 330 days suspended, 12 months probation on deferred adjudication (meaning if she completes probation without violating any of its terms and conditions, the conviction will be removed from her record. | |
| DOLENZ, BERNARD JOSEPH | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Defrauding various insurance companies. Date convicted: December 18, 1998 | More than 7 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $1.68 million in restitution | |
| Domagala, Rebecca | counselor | U.S. Minnesota |
| Patient abuse conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| DONAGHY, THOMAS | psychiatric hospital owner | U.S. Ohio |
| Making illegal payments (called "kickbacks") to others for referring Medicare insurance-covered patients to his hospital for treatment. Date convicted: May, 2002 | 1 year in jail; $600,000 restitution and $100 fine. | |
| DONGARRA, MICHAEL | psychologist | U.S. Arizona |
| Defrauding nearly $100,000 from insurance companies and stealing religious artifacts from two California churches. Dongarra had a 1983 conviction for Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: May 1998 | 21 years in prison | |
| DORSEY, MARILYN | high school counselor | U.S. Georgia |
| Sexually molesting a student. Date convicted: October 1991 | 15 years in prison | |
| DOSHI, PRIYKANT S. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Illegally dispensing and selling prescription drugs. Date convicted: March 28, 1996 | 2 1/2 to 7 1/2 years in jail | |
| DOSSEY, DONALD EUGENE | psychotherapist | U.S. California |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: November 9, 1988 | 2 years probation and ordered to pay $1,500 toward the cost of his prosecution | |
| DOSWELL, RONALD J. | social worker | U.S. Maryland |
| Billed for therapy sessions that never took place. Date convicted: June 12, 1997 | 3 years in jail and to pay $563,193 restitution to Medicaid & Medicare insurance programs, which he defrauded | |
| DOYLE, PATRICK | associate psychology professor | U.S. Texas |
| Murder (killed his stepfather with a hammer). Date convicted: March 1, 2003 | 25 years prison. | |
| Dreyer, Joel Stanley | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and unlawful distribution and dispensing of oxycodone/Percocet. Date convicted: December 14, 2009 | 10 years prison. | |
| Duchesne, Shadi | psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| 10 counts of refusal or failure to make, keep or furnish any record, notification, order form, statement, invoice or information, as required under the Controlled Substances, Drug, Device and Cosmetics Act (Duchesne failed to make, keep or furnish the record of her dispensing of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance). Date convicted: March 12, 2009 | 5 years supervised probation, restitution and 50 hours community service. | |
| DUCRO, THOMAS | psychotherapist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Using a fake social worker's license to bill Medicare for therapy visits with nursing home residents. Date convicted: September 29, 1999 | 8 months home confinement, 2 years probation and ordered to pay $44,252 | |
| Duffy, William | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Engaged in a sexual relationship with a graduate student he was supervising and made sexually inappropriate comments to another. Date convicted: December 2004 | License suspended 1 year. | |
| DUFORT, WILLIAM (HANK) | residential childrens | U.S. Oregon |
| Sexually abusing 6 boys at the Albany Youth Care Center, a Farm Home affiliate, where he was the director. Date convicted: November 2, 1990 | 48 years in jail and $25,000 in fines | |
| DUHAMEL, YVAN | psychiatric nurse | Canada Quebec |
| Rape of a psychiatric patient with a mental age of 2 years. Date convicted: June 6, 2002 | 4 years prison. | |
| Duncan, Dave | psychiatrist | England |
| Sexual relationship with patient. Date convicted: November 2002 | License suspended for 12 months. | |
| Duncan, James Bennie Vincent | psychiatric nurse | England |
| Sleeping on the job; smelling of alcohol. Date convicted: December 11, 2002 | License revoked. | |
| Dundar, Oksana | psychiatrist | Russia |
| Taking bribes. Date convicted: June 14, 2010 | 3.5 conditional sentence. | |
| DUNN, FRANK | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Illegally distributing prescription drugs. Date convicted: October 27, 1992 | 16 years in prison and $10,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Dunn, Kerri | psychology professor | U.S. California |
| Filing a false police report and attempted insurance fraud (vandalized her own car in the parking lot of a college where she was speaking about racial tolerance and reported it as a hate crime). Date convicted: December 15, 2004 | One year prison and ordered to pay $19,500 restitution to the college. | |
| DUPUY III, SIDNEY J. | psychiatrist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Defrauding Medicaid and Medicare insurance programs. Date convicted: June 30, 1999 | 4 years probation, 1 year to be served in home confinement, ordered to repay $210, 000 to Medicaid/Medicare and agreed to pay $290,000 to settle civil claims | |
| Duran, Lawrence | community mental health center owner | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid fraud conviction Date convicted: December 9, 2011 | 50 years prison | |
| Durand, Pierre | psychiatrist | U.S. New Hampshire |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: December 1998 | Licensed revoked for 3 years. | |
| DURON, ROBERT MICHAEL | counselor | U.S. California |
| Sexual assault of a minor at a group home where he worked. Date convicted: March 23, 2000 | 120 days in jail (served on weekends) | |
| DWIGHT, BEVERLY | psychologist | Russia Moscow |
| Defrauding seven U.S. banks. She spent time in jail in both Moscow and New York while awaiting trial. Date convicted: July 18, 1996 | 3 years probation, $25,000 fine and to pay restitution of $830,000 | |
| Dwyer, Dan E. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Idaho |
| Pled guilty to felony, Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud, in a District Court in Idaho response to a charge alleging six counts of obtaining Ritalin, a controlled substance, by fraud, through a scheme in which a patient obtained the substance with a prescription issued by respondent, with the agreement that the patient would return the controlled substance to respondent. Occurred February 24, 1998, through April 26, 1998. The scheme, as carried out, also constituted insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 2, 1999 | Probation with judgment withheld for four (4) years. | |
| Dwyer, Dan E. | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| California revoked his license based on a 1999 Idaho Medical Board order that charged that Dwyer may be unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients; that he has self-prescribed controlled substances; and that he pled guilty to a felony, to wit, obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Dwyer was first licensed in California in 1982.
Date convicted: March 13, 2000 | License revoked. | |
| Dwyer, Dan E. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Idaho |
| In November of 1997, three months after being issued an Idaho medical license, Dwyer was charged with multiple criminal felonies consequent to diverting a controlled drug, i.e., Ritalin, for his own use. This criminal proceeding generated grave concern that Respondent was unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety thus jeopardizing pubic welfare resulting in restrictions being placed on his medical license in 1999. The license was suspended and surrendered in 2004. Dwyer went to multiple addiction treatment centers for his alcohol and drug dependencies. Effective 07/31/2013 his Idaho medical license was reinstated and placed on 10 years probation with one year monitored medical practice and various terms and conditions. In February of 2016 it was surrendered. Date convicted: February 3, 2016 | License Surrendered. | |
| Dyer, Stephen | hypnotherapist | UK Folkstone, England |
| Seven counts of sexual assault involving female patients. Date convicted: September 17, 2008 | 5 years prison, ordered to cease working as a hypnotherapist, psychotherapist or counselor and ordered to register as a sex offender. | |
| Eardley, Robert Gerald | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Criminal sexual conduct and sexual intercourse as a pretext of medical treatment. Eardley engaged in sexual relationship with (sexually assaulted) two hearing impaired female patients who were both victims of past sexual abuse. Date convicted: September 21, 2006 | Six months jail, five years probation, and much register as a sex offender for 15 years. | |
| EARLEY, TERESITA E | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: August 2, 1994 | 5 years probation and ordered to pay restitution of $400,000 | |
| EASTON, FREDDY | psychologist. | U.S. California |
| Brandishing a weapon during a family disturbance and resisting arrest. Date convicted: 1990 | 3 year unsupervised probation | |
| EDMONDS, DOROTHY A. | substance abuse clinic owner | U.S. Louisiana |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: October 7, 1999 | 15 years (suspended) prison term, 5 years probation and $345,000 in restitution, penalties and costs | |
| EDSON, JACK | psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sexually abusing three teenage patients. He was a former president of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association. Date convicted: Circa 1987 | 5 years in jail | |
| Edward , Bukowski | psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Sex with a client and assault. Date convicted: March 2000 | Indefinitely suspended. | |
| Egan, Paul James | Psychologist | U.S. New York |
| He pleaded guilty to Promoting a Suicide Attempt, a felony. In January 2012, Egan and his wife entering into a 'suicide pact.' An investigation found that Egan had stuffed clothing into a furnace ventilation duct and turned on a gas generator, allowing carbon monoxide to permeate his home. His wife perished four days afterward. Date convicted: October 15, 2015 | 5 years of felony probation | |
| Egan, Paul James | Psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Convicted of Promoting a Suicide Attempt, a felony. Date convicted: July 12, 2016 | License surrendered | |
| Egel, Lawrence | psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Convicted for four counts of misdemeanor battery (sexually harassed and groped a patient) as well as allegedly engaging in deliberate and repeated comments, gestures and physical contacts of a sexual nature with three female patients. Date convicted: May 2003 | License suspended indefinitely but no less than three years. | |
| EHRLICH, JOEL H. | psychologist | U.S. Colorado |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: March 1, 1993 | 30 days in jail, 2 years deferred sentence and $18,090 in reimbursement to the state | |
| EHRLICH, LEAH L. | mental health staff | U.S. Colorado |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance with her husband, psychologist Joel H. Ehrlich. Date convicted: March, 1993 | 2 years in prison (deferred) and placed on electronic home monitoring | |
| Eisert, Stephen | drug counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Indecency by contact with a male patient. Date convicted: September 2004 | License revoked. | |
| ELDREDGE, ALLEN | family therapist | U.S. California |
| 29 counts of forcible sex acts on a 14-year-old female patient and 1 count of conspiracy. Date convicted: March 22, 2002 | 90 years state prison (30 consecutive 3 year sentences); must serve 72 years before eligible for parole. | |
| Ellis, Brian | counseling services owner and operator | U.S. Missouri |
| Defrauded the Medicaid program and the Missouri Division of Family Services of more than $264,000.
Date convicted: April 4, 2005 | 60 days house arrest and five years' probation and must repay the Missouri Medicaid program $242,010. In September 2005, Ellis was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Ellis, Carri Anne | counselor | U.S. Missouri |
| Defrauded the Medicaid program and the Missouri Division of Family Services of more than $264,000. Date convicted: April 4, 2005 | 5 years in prison, must repay $242,010 to the Missouri Medicaid program and $22,312.78 to the Department of Family Services. | |
| ENKELMANN, RAINER | psychiatrist | Germany |
| Sexually abusing female patients over a period of years. Enkelmann had previously been jailed for 15 months on a similar charge. Date convicted: July, 1993 | 3 years, 6 months in jail | |
| ENZENSPERGER, ROBERT | developmentally disabled aide. | U.S. California |
| Sexually molesting male and female mentally retarded patients where he worked. Date convicted: November 29, 1993 | 1 year in jail and 3 years probation | |
| Eroshevich, Khristine | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Prescription fraud Date convicted: January 6, 2011 | One year summary probation and $170 fine (felony reduced to misdemeanor) | |
| Esser, Aristide | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Illegally distributing prescription drugs Date convicted: June 29, 2012 | Convicted | |
| Estroff , Todd Wilk | psychiatrist. | U.S. Florida, Georgia, New York |
| Defrauding several insurance programs of $365,711.
Date convicted: February 9, 1995 | 7 1/2 months in prison and 7 1/2 months house arrest followed by 3 years supervised release. On February 7, 1996, Estroff surrendered his New York medical license. | |
| Etter, Larry | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Sexual assault of a child Date convicted: March 6, 2012 | 10 years prison | |
| EVANS, GREGORY LYNN | former mental health technician | U.S. North Carolina |
| Sex acts with a 15-year-old patient. Date convicted: January 23, 2002 | 18 years, 9 months-to-23 years, 3 months prison. | |
| Evans, John C. | counselor | U.S. Georgia |
| Child molestation, aggravated child molestation, statutory rape, enticement of a child for immoral purpose, sexual assault of a person in custody. Date convicted: March 10, 2005 | 20 years prison with 12 years to serve and 8 years probation. | |
| Ewa, Joseph | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Offering a false instrument for filing (fraud). Date convicted: June 8, 2004 | Five years probation. On February 1, 2005,the state of New York suspended his license for two years with all but two months stayed and placed his license on probation for three years. On December 20, 2004, he was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| EWUZIE, EMMANUEL | community mental health center operator | U.S. Texas |
| Medicare insurance fraud. Date convicted: October 4, 2001 | 30 months prison. | |
| FALAH, ELI | psychologist. | Israel Tel Aviv |
| Sexually assaulting clients, including a minor. Date convicted: December 24, 1993 | 4 years in prison | |
| FALEK, ALEXIS/BROWN | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Medicare insurance fraud. Date convicted: November 1, 1996 | 6 months home detention and 1 year probation | |
| Fantone, Emannuel | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| On April 20th, 2015, he was arrested at work when he appeared to be "under the influence." The arresting officer searched his car and found methamphetamine for which he tested positive. He also tested positive for cocaine. Charged with possession of a controlled substance, Fantone pleaded not guilty. Date convicted: April 28, 2016 | His California license is on probation with various conditions. As of June 2, 2017, the criminal case is still open with a Settlement Hearing scheduled. | |
| Fantone, Emannuel | Psy | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Action taken as a result of the California Medical Board disciplinary actions.
Date convicted: July 20, 2016 | Permanent Voluntary Surrender. | |
| Farmer, Robert A. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: June 12, 1995 | License revoked. | |
| Farmilant, Steven R. | Psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Failure to file and/or pay Illinois state income taxes. Date convicted: January 6, 2017 | License Suspended (License was reinstated on March 3, 2017) | |
| Fattmann, Kenneth J. | Psychiatrist | United States Missouri |
| The United States government claimed in a civil suit that Fattman owed it money as a result of an agreement he made for his medical training at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ("USUHS") School of Medicine in 1983. He defaulted on an agreed obligation to serve in active duty as a medical officer in one of the uniformed services for a certain number of years and so incurred a monetary liability. Date convicted: October 5, 1995 | Judgement -- requires him to pay $508,853 | |
| Fattmann, Kenneth J. | Psychiatrist | United States Missouri |
| Failure to file a state tax return and/or pay state tax liabilities. Date convicted: September 19, 2016 | Suspension | |
| Fawcett, Luke | psychologist | Australia Western Australia |
| Double murder Date convicted: February 3, 2022 | Life in prison with 34-year minimum to serve | |
| Feaster, Dan G. | social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Disorderly conduct (inappropriate contact with five women while intoxicated) Date convicted: February 14, 2011 | Convicted | |
| Feder, Adam | psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| Manslaughter. Date convicted: December 22, 2009 | 6 years prison, 4 years probation. | |
| Feigon, Joel | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Sexual relationship with a married patient from May 1975 until she left therapy in 1976 and continuing until 1981. Date convicted: June 1996 | License revoked. | |
| FEIL, ELIZABETH | prison psychologist | U.S. Maryland |
| Helping two prison inmates, one of whom she had an affair with, escape from prison. Date convicted: March 15, 2000 | 2 years in jail (1 1/2 years suspended) and 5 years supervised probation | |
| Feldman, Steven B. | (unqualified) psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Offering a false instrument for filing (worked for four years in the judicial system based on false credentials). Date convicted: June 1, 2011 | Pleaded guilty; to be sentenced. | |
| Felker, Kenneth | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: September 2005 | Surrendered license. | |
| Felner, Robert | psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Nine federal counts, including mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, income tax evasion and conspiracy to impede the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Date convicted: January 8, 2010 | 63 months prison. | |
| Ferguson, Daniel S. | marriage & family therapist, counselor | U.S. California |
| Engaged in sex with a client. Date convicted: July 5, 2001 | Marriage & family therapist license revoked. On October 18, 2003, the state of Washington revoked Ferguson's counseling license. In October 2005, he was Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| FERRIN, MARGARET | educational psychologist | U.S. California |
| Illegally billing insurance companies for nonexistent treatments. Date convicted: February 8, 1999 | 3 1/2 years probation, 400 hours community service and $5,983 in restitution | |
| Festa, Vincent | school psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Sodomized teenage boys. Date convicted: July 6, 1995 | 5 years probation. | |
| Fider, Alex A. | psychiatrist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Reckless aggravated assault (relative to a "road rage" incident in which he fired a gun, striking another vehicle which contained children). Date convicted: March 10, 2008 | 3 years probation. | |
| Fidler, Walter | psychologist | U.S. Arizona |
| Unprofessional conduct. Date convicted: November 8, 2004 | License suspended 364 days. | |
| FIEDLER, KURT R. | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Defrauding the Medicaid insurance program. Date convicted: October 3, 1992 | 5 years in jail (suspended) and $110,000 in fines and restitution and 1000 hours of community service | |
| Figley, Craig | psychologist | U.S. Washington |
| Child molestation. Date convicted: March 24, 2010 | 14.5 years prison. | |
| FINAU, PUSA (AKA MATUA FINAU) | mental health worker | New Zealand Wellington |
| 2 counts of sexual violation and 4 counts of indecent assault (of an 11-year-old girl). Date convicted: January 19, 2001 | 4 1/2 years and 2 year sentences, to be served concurrently. | |
| Finch, Edwin Clark | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Convicted of a misdemeanor in the practice of psychology. The Pennsylvania Board of Psychology has been contacted for information on the exact reasons for the Finch's suspension.
On April 3, 2002, he was convicted of Medicare fraud. Date convicted: February 2004 | License suspended for 1 year (2004). 1 year probation; $9,600 restitution, $5,000 fine and re-paid $86,000 to U.S. government (2002) | |
| FINK, DAVID M. | psychologist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Health care claims fraud. Date convicted: August 13, 2002 | 3 years probation and ordered to pay a $3,000 fine. His New Jersey medical license was revoked June 30, 2003 and he was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in March 2005. | |
| Fink, Robert I. | Psychiatrist | United States Washington |
| Boundary violations: he allowed a couple that he'd been treating to move into his home and do work on his house. He had a sexual relationship with one of them. He was also cited for "inappropriate treatment and prescribing practices" with that couple and with a third patient. Date convicted: October 7, 2016 | Voluntary Surrender of his license. | |
| Finlay-Jones, Robert | psychiatrist | UK |
| Professional misconduct, including a four-month sexual relationship with a patient. Date convicted: 2001 | Struck off of the medical register (same as license being revoked). | |
| Finney, John | Psychologist | United States Oregon |
| Cited by the Oregon Board of Psychologist Examiners for "immoral or unprofessional conduct or gross negligence" and two other violation of Ethical Standards. Finney failed to take immediate and effective steps in responding to a threat by his client that the client might harm his wife and a suspected suitor. The Board also found that Finney had a personal "investment" in his client that reflected "a lack of objectivity and sound professional judgment indicative of a multiple relationship." Date convicted: June 9, 2016 | License surrendered; civil penalty of $I,OOO | |
| Finney, John | Psychologist | United States Oregon |
| Cited by the Oregon Board of Psychologist Examiners for "immoral or unprofessional conduct or gross negligence" and two other violation of Ethical Standards. Finney failed to take immediate and effective steps in responding to a threat by his client that the client might harm his wife and a suspected suitor. The Board also found that Finney had a personal "investment" in his client that reflected "a lack of objectivity and sound professional judgment indicative of a multiple relationship." Date convicted: June 9, 2016 | License surrendered; civil penalty of $I,OOO | |
| FIQUIA, NASIR | therapist | Canada Edmonton |
| Tricking a teenage female patient into sado-masochistic acts for four years. Date convicted: March 26, 1992 | 30 months in prison | |
| Fischer, Charles Henry | Psychiatrist | United States Texas |
| Convicted of 13 felony counts, including four counts of sexual assault of a child, six counts of indecency of a child by contact and three counts of indecency of a child by exposure. Fischer, 64 at the time, was accused of abuse by seven men, six of whom were his patients and a former neighbor who said he was 7 or 8 years old when Fischer molested him. Fischer didn't testify in the trial, but paid roughly $65,000 to two psychologists whose testimony raised the possibility the allegations against him were false and the result of the accusers being mentally ill. Most of the victims were teenagers when the alleged assaults occurred in the early 2000s. Fischer worked at Austin State Hospital before he was fired in 2011 over the allegations. In the sentencing phase, Austin police officers testified about an unrelated 2013 arrest on a public lewdness charge in 2013 where police saw him engaging in oral sex with another man in a public area. He was to be tried separately for that incident. Date convicted: November 17, 2016 | 40 years in prison by Travis County (TX) court jury | |
| Fischer, Charles Henry | Psychiatrist | United States Texas |
| The Texas Medical Board determined that Dr. Fischer's continuation in the practice of medicine constituted a "continuing threat to the public welfare." They found that Fischer had demonstrated a pattern of sexually abusing teenage boys in his care for inpatient psychiatric treatment over a period of nearly 20 years. On November 30, 2012, the Board reaffirmed the suspension in light of criminal proceedings following Fischers' June 14, 2012 indictment by a Travis County Grand Jury on charges of sexual assault of a child. The suspension was again reaffirmed by the Board on May 2, 2014 after they were informed of Fischer's arrest for public lewdness in 2013; it was agreed that the suspension would become permanent if Fischer was found guilty of his ongoing criminal proceedings. He was convicted of 13 charges on November 16, 2016. Date convicted: November 22, 2011 | SUSPENSION of medical license. | |
| Fischer, Diane Rae | Psychiatrist | United States Florida |
| In or about May, 2014, Respondent abandoned her medical practice and began practicing at a new location. She did not provide notice to her patients of her relocation and did not inform the Board of Medicine that she was terminating her practice and relocating. Patients who sought their medical records were unable to obtain them. Date convicted: August 16, 2016 | License SUSPENDED. Fine of $5,000. Assessed Costs of $9,680. | |
| Fish, Donald Ellsworth | psychologist | U.S. Colorado |
| Assault and sexual assault on an at-risk adult (Fish sexually assaulted developmentally disabled women he was treating). In August 2007, Fish--who was still serving the sentence on his January 2007 conviction--was charged with additional sex crimes involving other victims (a child and another woman). He pleaded guilty in August 2007 to sexual assault on a client by a psychotherapist, sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact. Date convicted: January 24, 2007 and | 1 year jail and six years sex offender intensive supervised probation (1/24/07) and 4 years jail and 15 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation (9/20/07). He must also register as a sex offender. | |
| Fish, David C. | psychiatrist | UK Warwickshire, England |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: November 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Fisher, Roger | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Provided forensic opinion in divorce cases against parents he had never met. Date convicted: December 9, 2002 | Voluntary surrender of license. | |
| Fleck, Stephen | psychologist and counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Violation of a harassment restraining order, carrying a concealed weapon and resisting and officer. Date convicted: January 2006 | Unknown. | |
| FLEMONS, DEBRA COATES | master social worker | U.S. Texas |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: October 2001 | 70 months prison and $2.7 million restitution. | |
| FLETCHER, JAMES E. | psychiatric business partner | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding Medicaid health insurance along with his partner, psychiatrist James McClendon. Date convicted: October 1, 1998 | 46 months in prison | |
| Flod, Ramona | psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Charged by the state medical licensing board of misrepresenting herself and committing unprofessional conduct. Date convicted: July 2003 | Voluntarily surrendered license. | |
| Flood, Barbara | social worker | U.S. Colorado |
| Medicaid-related conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Flores, Sigifredo | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Felony sexual assault and sexual contact against four patients, two of whom were children. Date convicted: November 8, 2007 | 27 years prison and fined $125,000. | |
| Flores, William Simeon | counselor | U.S. California |
| Criminal conviction related to Medicaid program Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| FOLEY, KATHLEEN | psychiatric aide | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Murdering her husband of nine years, so that she could be with her lover. Date convicted: October 2, 2000 | Life in prison | |
| Folsom, Thomas | psychiatrist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Criminal sexual conduct: sexually assaulted patient, calling it therapy. Date convicted: September 11, 2008 | 41 months prison. | |
| FONDREN, KYLA | group home worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Assaulting a mentally disabled woman and fracturing the woman's cheek and ankle. Date convicted: June 9, 1999 | 1 to 2 years in jail | |
| FORD, DALE | group home worker | U.S. Tennessee |
| Sexually abusing a mentally handicapped man. Date convicted: Circa December, 1999 | 4 years in prison and placed on the sex offender registry | |
| FORD, DONALD P. | psychiatric resident | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Third-degree murder and drug distribution (fed cocaine to a 4-month-old infant to keep him quiet). Date convicted: July 26, 2001 | 5-10 years for child's death and 1-2 years for drug distribution. | |
| FORFAR, JAMES D. | former drug counselor | U.S. Michigan |
| Pleaded no contest to a charge of attempted fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and guilty to a charge of possession of marijuana. He allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint. Date convicted: April 4, 2002 | Jailed 60 days (less 23 days for time spent in drug rehabilitation), 18 months probation, $310 in fines and ordered to register as a sex offender for 25 years. | |
| FORGEY, BURNELL G. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sexually molesting a 16-year-old male patient, together with convicted child molester James Crummel. Date convicted: July 23, 1999 | 5 years probation, and served more than 1 year in jail awaiting trial | |
| Formick, Robin L. | mental health counselor | U.S. Ohio |
| Disorderly conduct. Date convicted: September 22, 2008 | Ordered to surrender counseling license (other sentence details not known). | |
| FORNAH, GEORGE | mental health worker | U.S. Washington |
| Raping a 22-year-old woman while she was in restraints. Date convicted: Circa 1990 | just over 2 years in prison | |
| FORTE, WILLIAM | Navy psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Failing to record prescriptions written for a staff member. Date convicted: October 7, 1993 | Reprimanded and fined $5,000 | |
| FORTMAN, THOMAS J. | youth counselor | U.S. Ohio |
| Having sex with a teenage girl and taking nude photos of other teens. Date convicted: April, 1997 | 8 to 19 years prison | |
| Foulks, Claude | mental hospital director | U.S. California |
| Molested his foster son over an eight-year period. Date convicted: February 23, 2011 | 248 years prison. | |
| Fountain, Chip Hayward | psychiatrist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Statutory rape by an authority figure: was indicted by grand jury following an investigation into a sexual relationship
with an underage patient). Date convicted: March 3, 2009 | "Judicial diversion"(Fountain pleaded guilty and was placed on two years probation. If he complies with all conditions of probation, the charge will be dismissed from his I record). | |
| FOX, MICHAEL | psychiatric nurse | U.K. Dorset |
| Sex attacks on mentally-retarded women. Date convicted: February 1994 | 9 terms of life imprisonment | |
| Fraelich, Charles Bruce | child psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Traveling interstate to have sex with an eleven-year-old and using the Internet to attempt to coerce and entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
Date convicted: December 14, 2006 | Eleven years and three months prison and ten years supervised release. | |
| Fraga, Michael Anthony | Psychologist | United States California |
| Willful Communication of Confidential Information; Unprofessional Conduct-Gross Negligence. Violated ethical principles by meeting jointly with a wife and husband in a troubled marriage, and then improperly disclosed confidential information. He did not clarify the nature and purpose of his services to the couple and he did not remain neutral in his relationship with them to the point that he disclosed the confidential information of one party to the divorce attorney of the spouse. Date convicted: June 1, 2016 | Revoked. | |
| Fraga, Michael Anthony | Psychologist | United States California |
| Unlicensed Practice of Psychology; False or Misleading Statements Generally. Misleading the public to believe that he was still a licensed psychologist and advertising psychological services online after his license had been revoked on June 1, 2016. A second citation was issued on June 1, 2017 for unlicensed practice by misleading the public that he was a "certified neuropsychologist" and he continued to engage in psychology. Date convicted: December 8, 2016 | Fined $5,000 by the California Board of Psychology. $2,500 each time in two separate citations. | |
| FRANCIS, DAVID | drug counselor | U.K. Nottingham |
| Dealing the drug, heroin. Date convicted: March 1, 2000 | 7 years in jail | |
| FRANK, JAMES GEORGE | school counselor | U.S. Colorado |
| Allegations of sexually assaulting several teenage boys. Date convicted: December 1997 | Initially jailed during an investigation. He killed himself while awaiting trial | |
| FRANKEL, MAX | psychologist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Not paying $135,000 in court-ordered restitution for fraudulently over billing Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: September 8, 1993 | 2 1/3 to 7 years in jail | |
| Frankenburg, John B. (a.k.a. Blaine J.) | counselor | U.S. Ohio |
| Billed insurance companies for services during period when license was suspended. Date convicted: January 31, 2011 | 30 days in jail, five years probation and restitution of more than $53,000. | |
| FRANKS, DARREL D. | psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: February 22, 1993 | 6 months home incarceration and ordered to pay $41,500 in fines and restitution | |
| Franks, Darrell D. | psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Insurance fraud.
Date convicted: February 22, 1995 | 6 months home incarceration and ordered to pay $41,500 in fines and restitution. Franks subsequently lost his professional license and in April 2004, he was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| FRASCA, PETER | mental retardation facility worker | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Filming himself and other employees beating two retarded men. Date convicted: December 11, 1991 | 90 days in jail | |
| FRASER, RODERICK MORRIS | psychiatrist | U.K. London |
| Taking and distributing pornographic pictures of boys. In November 1995, he was given a 2-year conditional discharge (probation) for allowing a pedophile to take indecent pictures of a boy in his care. Date convicted: 1993 | Jailed | |
| FRASER, JR., PAUL B. | psychotherapist | U.S. New York |
| Possession of child pornography. Date convicted: March 26, 1999 | 5 years probation | |
| FRAZIER, JAMES B. | drug counseling clinic employee | U.S. Michigan |
| Part of a Medicaid insurance fraud scam at Elrose Health Services drug counseling clinic. Date convicted: July 2, 1998 | 2 years probation, 200 hours volunteer work and ordered to pay approximately $5,000 in fines, costs and restitution | |
| Freedlander, Dean Gary | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of endangering a child (he was originally charged with "lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor" and "sexual exploitation of an adult"). Date convicted: November 2002 | Five years probation during which he must close down his private practice, 45 days of weekend work, 400 hours community service and counseling. | |
| FREEMAN, DEAN ANDRE | California psychiatrist and clinical psychiatry instructor at University of California San Francisco. | U.S. California |
| Attacking a patient with a knife and an axe. Date convicted: July 2, 1999 | 5 years in prison | |
| FREEMAN, JOHN CASPER | psychologist | U.K. Somerset |
| Sex attacks on children. Freeman had more than 50 other convictions for offenses including burglary and shoplifting dating back 30 years. Date convicted: Circa 1996 | 4 years. After his release from prison Freeman was under supervision by detectives, but he vanished. He may have fled to Ireland | |
| FREEMAN, RICHARD | psychologist | Canada Vancouver |
| Sexual assault of 3 patients. Date convicted: August 18, 1997 | Conditional sentence of nearly 2 years | |
| Freet, Virgil A. | counselor | U.S. Alabama |
| Harrassing a 16-year-old client. Date convicted: September 10, 2010 | To be sentenced. | |
| FRENCH, UNIDENTIFIED PSYCHIATRIST | psychiatrist (unidentified) | France Chaux-de-Fonds |
| Sexually abusing two patients. Date convicted: Circa 1999 | 6 months in prison and a two year probation | |
| FRENCH, DAVID W | drug treatment clinic owner | U.S. Maryland |
| Billing Medicaid and Medicare for therapy services not provided. Date convicted: February 10, 1999 | 3 years in prison (2 years suspended and 1 year home detention), 5 years supervised probation, 100 hours community service and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution | |
| FREUND, BARNARD WILLIAM | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Writing more than 30 fraudulent prescriptions. Date convicted: February 18, 1997 | 3 years probation and 30 days home confinement with electronic monitoring | |
| FRIDLEY, DAWN APRIL | former drug counselor | U.S. Ohio |
| Sexual battery and gross sexual imposition involving two teenage male clients. Date convicted: July 12, 2002 | 3 years prison. | |
| Friedberg, Ahron | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance. Friedberg used "steerers," paying them in pills, to visit methadone clinics and direct heroin addicts to his office, where he sold them prescriptions. Date convicted: December 22, 2004 | 1,000 hours community service | |
| Friedlander, Charles | mental health therapist | U.S. Florida |
| Convicted March 27, 2009 of a federal charge of using a facility or means of interstate commerce, to knowingly and willfully attempt to persuade, induce, entice or coerce an individual who had not attained the age of 18 to engage in sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense. Friedlander traveled to meet a man he thought was a father who would let him beat and have sex with his two boys, ages 10 and 11. Date convicted: March 27, 2009 | Ten years federal prison, lifetime supervision and $25,000 fine. | |
| FRIEDMAN, HOWARD M | therapist | U.S. Ohio |
| Fondling a female patient. Date convicted: 1998 | 60 days in jail (suspended) and fined $200 | |
| FRIEDMAN, MICHAEL ALLEN | psychologist | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: August 12, 2002 | 2-year deferred prison sentence following a guilty plea (prison sentence deferred but conditions are imposed that, if not adhered to, could result in a prison term), ordered to pay $102,558 restitution (nearly 3 times the amount he fraudulently billed Medicaid) and $6,833 in fines and costs. | |
| FRIESEN, CAROL D. | counselor | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Fraudulently billing Medicaid insurance for psychotherapy sessions which were actually reading lessons. Date convicted: November 5, 1998 | 2 years in prison and ordered to repay more than $135,000 | |
| Frimpong, George | psychiatrist | Ghana Kumasi |
| Arson. Date convicted: August 26, 2005 | 2 million Ghana cedis (approximately $220 USD). | |
| Fry, Daniel | Psychologist | United States Washington |
|
Unprofessional Conduct. Doctor-patient relationship boundaries were violated. Fry made disclosures to two of his clients of a personal nature and engaged in personal contact with them that they considered seductive or sexual in nature. Both were undergoing marital/couples therapy. He egaged in social contacts with them and did not maintain clear boundaries. Each client's husband felt alienated from the "therapy" by the time and attention Fry was giving the women. His conduct "contributed to marital discord." Date convicted: September 27, 2016 | Surrendered his medical license. | |
| FRYE, PAMELA | therapist | U.S. Georgia |
| Fatally poisoning her mother in an attempt to collect a $500,000 life insurance policy. Date convicted: November 17, 1997 | 10 years in prison | |
| FUCHS, WILLIAM LEE | psychologist | U.S. North Carolina |
| 49 sex crimes involving children. Date convicted: August 7, 1997 | More than 21 years in prison | |
| Fuchu, Anna | unlicensed psychologist | United States Massachusetts |
| Held herself out as a psychologist and used the title "psychologist" while unlicensed by the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists and engaged in the unlicensed practice of psychology in the state of Massachusetts. As of November 3, 2010, Fuchu was found to have created a profile on Facebook in which she described her position at a counseling center as "Clinical Psychologist." As of January 30, 2011, the profile she created on the LinkedIn website described her employment as "Psychologist at the Psychology Center." On or about August 10, 2009, she signed a document related to her treatment of a patient using the title of psychologist. Date convicted: October 3, 2012 | Civil penalty of $1,000 and cease and desist using the title of psychologist. Fuchu agreed to not hold herself out to be a psychologist or to engage in the practice of psychology in Massachusetts until she is issued a valid Massachusetts psychologist license. | |
| GAGNER, COSSETTE | mental health nurse | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Having sex with a patient. Date convicted: April 2000 | 2 months in jail and eight years probation | |
| Gagnon, John | psychotherapist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Carrying a dangerous weapon. Date convicted: March 1, 2011 | 5 years probation. | |
| Gale, Ian | psychiatrist. | U.S. South Carolina |
| Housebreaking and larceny: stole approximately $750,000 in property during a string of house burglaries over several years. Date convicted: December 3, 1979 | 15 years in prison. | |
| GALLAGER, MEGAN HELENE | mental health center owner | U.S. Michigan |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: May 29, 1996 | 3 years probation, the last 90 days to be served in jail (suspended upon successful completion of probation), and ordered to pay over $12,000 in fines, costs and restitution | |
| Gallien, Wrenda | psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| On January 23, 2008, Dr. Gallien pleaded guilty to 13 counts of Prohibited Acts Relating to Controlled Substances and 9 counts of Wrongful Filling Prescriptions.
Gallien was indicted in November 2003 and again in March 2005 on a total of 50 felony and nine misdemeanor charges related to unlawful prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances.
In August 2004, the state of Kentucky summarily suspended Gallien's license to practice on charges of unlawful prescribing and fitness to practice.
Date convicted: January 23, 2008 | 1 year unsupervised pre-trial diversion. | |
| GALLINARO, LOUIS | mental health executive | U.S. Massachusetts |
| His part in Executive Management Assoc. which defrauded non-profit mental health care companies providing services to de-institutionalized mentally retarded individuals. Date convicted: January 8, 1998 | 6 months in prison/community confinement and 6 months home confinement | |
| GALLOWAY, MATTHEW P. | psychiatry professor | U.S. Michigan |
| Using a computer for the purpose of accosting and soliciting a minor (used an Internet chat room to exchange sexually explicit messages with a female he thought was a 15-year-old, but who was actually a police officer). Date convicted: April 11, 2001 | 2 years probation with stipulations that he undergo mental health counseling and be supervised around female minors. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender. | |
| Galper, Marvin F. | Psychologist | United States California |
| Gross Negligence, Repeated Negligent Acts in care and treatment, Violating Rules of Professional Conduct and Failure to Retain Records. In a period between 2012 and 2015, In numerous cases, Galpin failed to properly test and evaluate clients and then destroyed records, including test materials and notes. Most of the clients were involved in custody issues with children and were being examined for their fitness in parenting. Date convicted: August 29, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| Ganz, Joel | psychiatrist | U.S. DC |
| Obstruction of a criminal investigation of a health care offense. Ganz came under investigation in 2005 for possible fraudulent conduct in billing Medicaid (U.S. government health plan) for psychiatric consultation services. Sometime during the course of the investigation, Ganz created medical records "documenting" services provided on behalf of Medicaid recipients purporting to show that Ganz provided service to various residents of a group home. Ganz caused these false records to be provided to the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in an attempt to cause the investigation to be closed without charges being brought against him. Date convicted: January 7, 2009 | 2 years of probation, $10,000 fine and 100 hours of community service. | |
| GARCIA, NESTOR A. | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Defrauding Medicare and Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: April 8, 1998 | More than 6 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.65 million | |
| GARCIA, RENEE | former drug counselor | U.S. Alaska |
| Third-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance (selling cocaine to an undercover officer). Date convicted: January 8, 2002 | 4 years prison (3 years suspended) and 3 years probation. | |
| Gardiner, Ed | psychologist | U.S. Utah |
| Surrendered professional license. Date convicted: October 2004 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health fare programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| GARDNER, DAVID | marriage & family therapist | U.S. Utah |
| Drunk driving. Date convicted: February 2001 | 2 days in a jail work-diversion program and $1,400 fine. | |
| Gardner, Troy V. | mental health counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Patronizing a prostitute. Date convicted: April 4, 2007 | 90 days jail, suspended for two years (during which time he must stay out of trouble) and ordered not to counsel women. | |
| GARFINKLE, BARRY | psychiatrist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Committing research fraud. Date convicted: 1995 | 6 months in a halfway house, 6 months under house arrest and ordered to pay $210,000 in restitution and fines | |
| Garner, David M. | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Engaged in sexual conduct with a psychologist trainee. Date convicted: July 21, 2005 | License suspended for five months. | |
| GARRETT, JAMES | substance abuse clinic owner | U.S. New York |
| He and Al-Care Clinic co-owner, Douglas C. Kabat, fraudulently obtained from Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: April 1998 | a 1 year conditional discharge and ordered to repay $113,000 | |
| GASH, RICHARD | college psychology lecturer | U.K. London |
| Stabbed a student more than 40 times with a kitchen knife while high on drugs and alcohol. He had obtained his psychology degree while serving a term in prison. Date convicted: May 4, 2001 | Jailed for life. | |
| GASSY, JEAN ERIC | psychiatrist | Austrailia Sydney |
| Murder (murdered South Australia's mental health chief in revenge for having been deregistered as a psychiatrist in 1997). That conviction was overturned based on concerns about instructions given to the jury but a May 2009 retrial resulted in the same verdict. Date convicted: October 28, 2004 | 34 years prison with no chance of parole. | |
| GAYLE, IAN | psychiatrist | U.S. South Carolina |
| Carrying out a series of burglaries that netted about $300,000. Date convicted: December 3, 1979 | 15 years in prison | |
| Gaylor, Michael S. | psychiatrist | U.S. New Hampshire |
| "Sexual misconduct in activities ancillary to the practice of medicine." Date convicted: May 16, 1997 | License suspended for 1 year. | |
| Gelber, Allan H. | Psychologist | United States Arizona |
| Unprofessional Conduct. Gelber attested that he had a therapeutic relationship with the patient for approximately three years. Toward the end of the patient's treatment, he started having feelings of "deep love" for her and shared his feelings with her. His last professional contact with her was May 12, 2016 but the relationship became sexual and he continued to see her personally until October. On October 27, 2016, the patient told Dr. Gelber to cease all contact with her but he subsequently made additional efforts to communicate with the patient. Board members considered his actions were "egregious and out of control." Date convicted: March 30, 2016 | License surrendered. License had been suspended earlier, on November 28, 2016. | |
| GERARD, LISA P. | counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Having sex with a 15-year-old boy under her care. Date convicted: April 19, 1999 | 6 months in jail with work release privileges | |
| GERMAN, UNIDENTIFIED SOCIAL WORKER | social worker (name not released) | Germany Berlin |
| Sexually abusing a mentally handicapped 12-year-old boy. Date convicted: February 3, 1999 | Nearly 3 years in prison | |
| Gerner, Robert Hugh | Psychiatrist | United States California |
| Gross Negligence, Sexual Misconduct, Unprofessional Misconduct and Inadequate Records. Gerber engaged in a sexual relationship with patient during the time he was her psychiatrist. Gerber began treating a female patient in or around March 1996 through January 2008, prescribing psychiatric medications for her various "disorders." In 2004, they began a romantic relationship, which included sexual intercourse. Around February 1, 2008, the patient's husband left her. In August 2008, he moved into the patient's home and lived with her until August 2011. During this time-frame, he continued to prescribe medications for her. The medical record lacks precise details regarding when and why certain medications were prescribed and does not appear to accurately document all of the medications that Gerber provided her. Date convicted: July 21, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| Gerner, Robert Hugh | Psychiatrist | United States California |
| Sexual Misconduct, gross negligence and repeated negligent acts. Between May 22, 1986, and August 30, 1988, Gerner engaged in numerous occasions of sexual conduct with a female patient while he was treating her. During that period the patient was hospitalized on three separate occasions for overdosing on alcohol and medications prescribed and provided by Gerner. Date convicted: December 1, 1994 | 7 years probation with conditions effective Nov 10, 1994; 60 days of acutual SUSPENSION; must pay administrative costs of $7,500. License restored effective Nov 10, 2001. | |
| GERSHMAN, RONALD A. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Owed $273,000 in spousal and child support. Date convicted: August 6, 1997 | 4 years probation and ordered to pay $4,250 per month on spousal and child support. | |
| Gialanella, Eugene | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: February 6, 2004 | Excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Giannattasio, Vincent | psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin, New York |
| Sexual intercourse/relationships with three patients. Date convicted: February 28, 1995 | Surrendered Wisconsin license. New York revoked his license January 19, 1996. | |
| Gibb, Fraser | psychiatrist | Scotland UK |
| Possession of the drug "Ecstasy." Date convicted: July 1, 2006 | Fined £400. | |
| Gibbons, Debra Denise | master social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance. Date convicted: June 20, 2006 | 7 months in jail. | |
| GIBBS, DAVID EARL | mental health aide | U.S. Texas |
| Raping and killing a woman, killing her female roommate, and sentenced to an additional 20 years while on death row, for killing another condemned murderer. Date convicted: Circa 1985 | Death | |
| Giberti, Richard | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Accused of sex with teen client. Date convicted: January 2005 | License suspended. | |
| GIBSON JR., BUFORD | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal state insurance fraud. Date convicted: 1995 | 5 years probation with 2 years to be served in a halfway house, up to 500 hours community service and ordered to pay $500,000 in restitution | |
| GIFFORD, LOREN ARDEN | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Defrauding health-care providers out of $1.2 million. Gifford had previously been convicted in 1982 on similar charges and served 6 years in prison. Date convicted: September 19, 1996 | 10 years in prison | |
| GILBERT, MICHAEL | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Attempting to frame a man for drug possession. Date convicted: Circa April 30, 1991 | 364 days in jail followed by 18 months of house arrest and 500 hours of community service | |
| Gilchrist, Rhonn | clinical social worker | U.S. New York |
| Health care fraud totaling $102,000. (Gilchrist admitted that from 2002 through 2007, he routinely double billed insurance companies and submitted fraudulent claim forms seeking payments for treatment he did not provide.) Date convicted: February 20, 2008 | Full restitution of $102,000 and criminal forfeiture of $90,000 in cash and condo purchased with defrauded funds. | |
| Gillberg, Christopher | psychiatrist | Sweden Gothenberg |
| Misuse of office. Gillberg failed to comply with a verdict to disclose his research into DAMP (Swedish acronym for "ADD"). Gillberg's published results were challenged by someone who then filed a civil action to gain access to the research. This was granted, but Gillberg refused and had the research destroyed. Date convicted: June 2005 | Fine and probation. | |
| GILLESPIE, MARJORIE | psychotherapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: December 7, 1993 | 90 days in jail on a work-release program, 3 years probation and ordered to pay nearly $27,000 restitution | |
| GILLIS, MICHAEL PATRICK | family counseling center executive | U.S. New York |
| Fraudulently billing the state Medicaid insurance program and lying about his educational credentials in court. Date convicted: June 1991 | 1 year in jail | |
| Gillman, Thomas E. | psychologist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Immoral, dishonorable, unprofessional or unethical conduct. Date convicted: August 7, 2007 | Voluntarily relinquished license. | |
| GILMORE, STEPHEN ANDREW | clinical psychologist | New Zealand Waitemata District |
| inducing a seven-year-old to perform an indecent act. Date convicted: March 8, 2004 | 9 months prison and ordered to pay reparation of $10,000 to the victim. | |
| Gilyazova, Larisa | psychiatrist | Russia |
| Taking a bribe. Date convicted: June 10, 2010 | 1 year conditional sentence. | |
| Giolas, Dale John | Psychiatrist | United States Illinois |
| "Boundary violations with a patient of his practice." Prior to this most recent suspension, Giolas was fined in June of 2016 for "boundary violation with a pharmaceutical representative in the course of his work" and was suspended for the same reason from July 13, 2016 for 1 month. On July 28, 2016, he was temporarily suspended for 1 day for "engaging in the pattern of boundary violation with a patient of his psychiatric practice." The most recent action, his December 2, 2016 suspension, occurred while in was aleady on probation subsequent to his July 13th suspension. Date convicted: December 2, 2016 | License was suspended indefinitely (minimum of two years). His controlled substance license was also suspended for the same term. | |
| GIRIMONTE, STEVE | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Stealing $25,000 in donations to a ranch for troubled children. Date convicted: October 1997 | 8 months in jail | |
| GLADSTONE, SCOTT | psychiatrist | U.S. Nevada |
| Fraudulently billing Medicaid patients for more time than he spent with them and for procedures he did not perform. Date convicted: March 1992 | Pleaded guilty and agreed to pay the state $300,000 and ordered to perform 500 hours of community service work | |
| Gleason, Peter | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona |
| Misbranding (Gleason was paid by a pharmaceutical company to promote their drug to physicians for uses not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration--a violation of federal law). Date convicted: August 8, 2008 | Sentence pending. | |
| Glisson, Brenton | psychiatrist | U.S. South Carolina |
| Engaged in sex with patients. Date convicted: June 7, 2006 | License revoked. On September 14, 2007, the U.S. Dept. of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration revoked Glisson's Certification of Registration (license to prescribe controlled substances). | |
| Glover, James Roger | Psychiatrist | United States California |
| Unprofessional Conduct. Beginning in late 2008, Glover continued prescribing drugs including Depakote, Wellbutrin, Ambien and Ativan to a patient who had a history of drug abuse. The patient, who had also received treatment and drugs from other practitioners, died in March 2012 from overdose. Glover who had a history of disciplinary actions from the California Medical Board for improper prescribing, was cited for numerous instances of wrongdoing in his prescribing and treatment of the patient. Date convicted: September 15, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| Gluskie, Clarence | psychiatrist | Australia |
| Engaged in "a particularly distasteful exploitation" of his patient's vulnerability (sex with patient). Date convicted: May 7, 2001 | Struck off of medical register (comparable to license revocation). | |
| GODWIN, RAYMOND J. | psychiatric hospital aide | U.S. New Jersey |
| Sexually assaulting a female patient. Date convicted: January 16, 1998 | 10 years in prison | |
| GOEWEY, DONALD E. | counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sexual assault involving 2 juvenile residents of a group home. Date convicted: June 19, 1997 | 15 years in prison | |
| Gold, Richard | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Sexual encounters and relationships with several patients, dating back to the 1960s. Date convicted: July 27, 1994 | License revoked. | |
| GOLDBERG, ELAINE MARCIA | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Disturbing the peace by threatening neighbors, blowing an air horn and pounding on walls. Date convicted: June 1992 | 3 years probation | |
| Goldberg, Alan M. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Sexual relationship with a patient. Date convicted: January 8, 1998 | License revoked. | |
| Goldberg, Harold L. | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Sexual relationship with patient. Date convicted: Dec 1989 | License revoked. | |
| Goldenson, Mary T. | Psychologist | United States California |
| Convicted of Misdemeanor drunk driving (DUI) after having crashed into a tree in the front yard of a residence on Jan 5, 2012 where the police found her unresponsive, behind the wheel of the vehicle with the its engine running. There was evidence she had drank whiskey and taken the antidepressant drug citalopram. It was found that she also had a prior DUI conviction in 2006. Date convicted: April 23, 2012 | 5 years probation. Fine and fees of $1,728. | |
| Goldenson, Mary T. | Psychologist | California |
| Unprofessional Conduct and other. The Surrender was based on her conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol in 2012 and failing to report it to the Board within 30 days. It was also alleged that she used alcohol to an extent dangerous to herself or the public. Additionally, she had failed to report disciplinary action taken by the Board of Chiropractic Examiners against a chiropractor license she held. Their investigation found she had also been convicted of a DUI charge in 2006. Date convicted: August 24, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| Golding, Robert | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Attacked and threatened to kill his landlady. Date convicted: May 15, 2010 | Jailed 3 years. | |
| GOLDMAN, NORMAN | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| His part in Balanced Living Counseling Services which defrauded Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: February 11, 1999 | 5 years probation, 4,000 hours community service and ordered to pay $54,364 in restitution | |
| Goldstein, Howard | psychiatrist | U.S. Missouri |
| Made a false statement to the FBI in connection with a Medicare fraud investigation. In an April 2010 interview with the FBI in which he was questioned about problems with his Medicare billing, Goldstein minimized and mis-characterized concerns and problems. Date convicted: January 5, 2011 | 5 months prison, ordered to pay a $30,000 fine and agreed to forfeit $100,000. | |
| Goodheart, Daniel P. | clinical social worker | U.S. Florida |
| Conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud (while employed at a Florida prison, Goodheart used a state Department of Corrections database to get the names and social security numbers of inmates and filed false tax returns for which he and co-conspirators received rebate checks totaling more than $900,000. Date convicted: June 13, 2008 | 5 years prison and responsible with co-conspirators for repaying $902,487.87. | |
| GOPALANI, HANIF AHMEDSHAFFI | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Harassment and unlawful use of the telephone (relative to charges of stalking an assistant attorney general). Date convicted: August 21, 2001 | 90 days jail (suspended), 5 years supervised probation (was in custody from 3/20/01 to 8/22/01). | |
| GORDON, ALICE | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding the state Medicaid insurance program of more than $1 million. Date convicted: November 24, 1998 | 21 months in prison | |
| GORDON, JULIAN MATTHEW | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Sexually molesting a boy. Date convicted: December 11, 1997 | 6 to 15 years in prison | |
| Gordon, Colin | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Impaired objectivity, dual relationships. Date convicted: February 2003 | License suspended indefinitely. | |
| Gordon, Julian M. | Psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Gordon was convicted by a jury for sexual misconduct with a minor patient. In 1996, he repeatedly molested a 13-year-old patient and eventually raped him. He served 13 years in prison and was required to register as a sex offender for life. After serving his sentence, in his petition to get his license reinstated, he defended his actions, in part, by claiming that he'd been depressed and angry at the time of his crimes. Date convicted: March 11, 1999 | License was revoked. It was reinstated on August 4, 2011. | |
| Gordon, Julian M. | Psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Negligence, incompetence, lack of good moral character, involvement in a dual relationship with a patient or former patient and soliciting a sexual relationship with a former patient. On May 11, 2014, police were called to Gordon's home after a former patient stabbed Gordon following an altercation in which the former patient claims Gordon attempted to touch him sexually. Date convicted: October 17, 2016 | License suspended. | |
| GORSSE, CARLOS | Psychologist | UK England |
| Assault causing actual bodily harm (viciously assaulted his lover, punching and kicking her in the head and ribs and choking her). Date convicted: September 10, 2004 | 7 months jail. | |
| Gotkind, Lawrence | psychiatrist | Canada Toronto, Ontario |
| Touching and making sexual comments toward three female patients. Date convicted: July 19, 2005 | License suspended for 4 months. | |
| Gottlieb, Lewis | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid and Medicare insurance program fraud. (He billed the programs for motorized wheelchairs that were unnecessary and received $200 kickbacks from medical supply companies for each wheelchair he prescribed.) Date convicted: December 5, 2006 | 6 1/2 years in prison and $20.6 million restitution. | |
| Gottlieb, Louis | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid and Medicare insurance fraud. Date convicted: December 5, 2006 | 6 1/2 years prison without parole and ordered to pay $20.6 million in restitution and to forfeit to the United States an additional $19 million constituting the proceeds from his fraud. | |
| GOTTUSO, JOHN | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Demonstrating a sex act with a 15-year-old girl in front of a class. Date convicted: April 27, 1998 | 30 days house arrest and 5 years probation | |
| Gratzer, Thomas | psychiatrist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Criminal Sexual Conduct, First Degree; Penetration with a Person under age 13 Date convicted: August 10, 2023 | 12 years prison | |
| GRAY, ROBERT ALLEN | therapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Sexually abusing a female patient. Date convicted: April 1991 | 5 years probation, 80 hours of community service and prohibited from private practice | |
| GRAY, ROBERT BRUCE | psychiatric patient broker | U.S. Florida |
| Taking over $221,000 in illegal payments for sending patients to 3 local psychiatric facilities. Date convicted: August 16, 1999 | 3 years probation, 6 months house arrest and ordered to pay restitution | |
| Gray, Jeffrey Thomas | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Unlawfully issuing a prescription drug and possession of a controlled substance. Date convicted: August 16, 2005 | 3 years probation and 45 days community service. The state of Colorado suspended his medical license in March 2006. | |
| Gray, Jeffrey Thomas | psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| Drug-related criminal conviction. Date convicted: March 2006 | License suspended. | |
| GREEN, DENNIS | high school counselor | U.S. Idaho |
| Disturbing the peace during a fight with a student. Date convicted: May 20, 1997 | 2 years probation and fined $500 | |
| GREENBAUM, IRWIN L. | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Health care fraud (billed insurance companies for individual psychotherapy when the actual service provided was a group weight loss program). Date convicted: June 28, 2002 | 30 days prison, 3 years supervised release and ordered to pay $14,551 in restitution. | |
| Greenbaum, Irwin | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: August 19, 2004 | Summary suspension of license. | |
| Griffin, Heath | Mental health worker | U.S. Montana |
| Griffin admitted to having sexual contact with at least two juvenile female patients. Date convicted: May, 2003 | 4 years intensive supervision (includes 180 days electronically monitored house arrest) followed by 26 years probation. | |
| Griffiths, Howard | psychiatric nurse | UK South Wales |
| Mistreating elderly patients. Date convicted: July 19, 2010 | Convicted. | |
| GRIGORIEV, ALEXANDER | psychologist | Russia Kirgizia |
| Organizing large numbers of young people into a mystical sex cult. Date convicted: October 15, 1986 | 9 years in jail | |
| GRILLO, ADERONKE | residential counselor | U.S. Maryland |
| Physically assaulting a mentally disabled man under her care. Date convicted: April 27, 1998 | 18 months in jail (with all but 90 days suspended) and 2 years supervised probation | |
| Grodman, Joseph E. | Psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Failure to file and/or pay Illinois state income taxes. Date convicted: January 6, 2017 | License Suspended | |
| Gross, William F. | psychologist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Unknown. Date convicted: August 2004 | License suspended for three years. | |
| GROSSMAN, FREDERICK | psychologist | U.S. Kansas |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 15, 1996 | 5 years probation, 832 hours of community service and ordered to pay $40,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Grossman, Warren | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Sexual activity with patient. Date convicted: July 2004 | License revoked. In September 2005, Grossman was excluded from participation in federally funded health care program (such as Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Grosso, Gino | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance Date convicted: January 5, 2011 | 3 to 10 years prison | |
| GUELKER, MICHAEL | unlicensed psychologist | U.S. Idaho |
| Forgery and practicing professional counseling without a license. (While Guelker does possess a masters degree in psychology, the state of Idaho prohibits the use of any title or description incorporating the word "psychologist" or the provision of psychological services without a license). Date convicted: March 19, 2001 | 180 days county jail and 5 years probation. | |
| GUESS, GILLIAN | counselor | U.K. London |
| Having an affair with a man while she sat as a juror on his murder trial. Date convicted: August 24, 1998 | 18 months in jail | |
| Gujadhur, Lekhraj | Psychiatrist | France |
| Manslaughter. He was charged with failing to follow up his patient known for his dangerousness who had escaped from a hospital and committed murder. Date convicted: December 14, 2016 | 18 months - suspended sentence. | |
| GULLEY, EUGENE | mental health employee | U.S. New Jersey |
| Raping and beating a 64-year-old woman coworker. Date convicted: June 7, 1991 | 10 years in prison | |
| Gumer, Alan | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Gumer pleaded guilty for his role in a $200 million scheme to defraud Medicaid by billing the program for psychotherapy that was unnecessary. Gumer signed bogus psychiatric evaluations for thousands of patients (falsely evaluating them as suffering from depression, schizophrenia or bipolar conditions).
Date convicted: June 30, 2011 | To be sentenced January 12, 2012. | |
| Hacking, Mark | Psychiatric Orderly | U.S. Utah |
| Murdered his wife as she slept. She had earlier confronted him over his lie about being enrolled in medical school in North Carolina, where the couple was relocating. Hacking had in fact engaged in deception, pretending to study medicine when he had in fact dropped out of college. Date convicted: 6-Jun-05 | 6 years to life in prison. | |
| HAGER, JEROME PETER | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal insurance fraud. Date convicted: December 1992 | 45 days in jail and 5 years probation | |
| Hager, Jerome Peter | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sexual misconduct consisting of hugging, kissing and sexual intercourse with one patient and fondling the breast of another. Date convicted: December 19, 1992 | License surrendered. | |
| Hageseth III, Christian | psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| Practicing medicine without a license. Hageseth, practicing in Colorado on a restricted license that limited him to renewing prescriptions but not writing new ones, electronically signed a prescription for a California college student for fluoxetine (generic Prozac) through an online pharmacy. Though not an issue in the prosecution, the student later committed suicide. Date convicted: April 18, 2009 | 9 months jail, 3 years supervised probation and $4,249.49 restitution to the Medical Board of California. Hageseth's Colorado medical license was revoked in November 1999 for engaging in a sexual relationship with a patient (who subsequently divorced her husband and married Hageseth). | |
| HALL, EDWIN P | psychologist. | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance of over $500,000. Date convicted: August 1, 1998 | 10 years in prison (8 suspended), fined $10,000 and ordered to pay restitution of $209,000 | |
| Hall, Geoffrey | psychologist | Australia Melbourne, Victoria |
| Sex with three female patients. Date convicted: May 2003 | Struck off medical register (license revoked). | |
| Halo, Hugo H. | psychiatrist | U.S. Rhode Island |
| According to the Rhode Island Department of Health's consent order, Dr. Halo was found guilty of unprofessional conduct based on having been suspended for two years from the Rhode Island Psychiatric Society, which found him guilty of unethical conduct based on a complaint against him for boundary violations which occurred 25 years earlier. The sections of the physician's code of medical ethics which Halo is cited to have violated include those that deal with exploiting a patient for the psychiatrist's own gratification and engaging in sex with current or former patients.
Date convicted: March 11, 1998 | Suspended for two years, stayed and restricted from treating female patients without another health professional present. | |
| Hamilton, Diane K. | social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Fraternizing with a Department of Corrections inmate. Date convicted: April 2003 | Surrender of license ordered by board. | |
| Hamilton, David | social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Third-degree sexual assault Date convicted: April 13, 2012 | Guilty | |
| Hamilton-Bennett, Maisha | psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Theft and benefits fraud (defrauded the Illinois Department of Public Aid of at least $435,000 by billing for services never provided or provided by unlicensed personnel). Date convicted: January 25, 2005 | Six months jail, four years probation, 600 hours community service and ordered to pay $400,000 restitution. | |
| HAMPARIAN, STEVE | psychiatric patient broker | U.S. Florida |
| Taking fees in exchange for sending patients to Florida psychiatric hospitals. Date convicted: November 5, 1999 | 1 year and 1 day in jail and fined $25,000 | |
| HANCOCK, DORIS | mental health employee | U.S. Arizona |
| Health insurance fraud, see William Hancock. Date convicted: May 9, 1994 | 3 years probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution | |
| HANCOCK:, WILLIAM | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Health insurance fraud, see Doris Hancock. Date convicted: May 9, 1994 | 2 1/2 years prison, ordered to pay 1.2 million in restitution and fined $25,000 | |
| Handlin, Diane | Psychologist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Violation of patient confidentiality. Handlin disclosed personal information about her client to a third party. Date convicted: March 7, 2016 | Probation for 1 year, $3000 penalty. | |
| Handwerk, Julie | Psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| She violated the terms and conditions of her probation. Breached required patient-physician boundaries with a patient of her practice. Date convicted: April 28, 2016 | Suspended for a minimum of 12 months. | |
| HANSEN, FRED | drug counselor | U.S. Utah |
| Shooting and killing his wife and stepdaughter. Date convicted: January 1996 | Life in prison | |
| HANSON, JOEL W | psychiatrist | U.S. Utah |
| Posing as a photographer and secretly videotaping models as they undressed. Date convicted: June 26, 2000 | 30 days in jail | |
| Harding, David | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Arrested on a charge of criminal sexual conduct.
0 Date convicted: April 2003 | License was summarily suspended on April 14, 2003 and was revoked on August 26, 2005. | |
| Hardrict, Ronald | psychiatrist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: Feb 19, 2004 | Excluded from U.S. federally-funded health programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| HARDY, DAVID | school psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Sexually molesting a 9-year-old boy and possessing child pornography. Date convicted: March 1997 | 2 1/2 to 7 years in jail | |
| Hargrave, Allison | psychiatrist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. Date convicted: March 25, 2011 | 30 years prison and $279,454 restitution | |
| HARIKA, JOPINDAR | psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Defrauded Medicare/Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: May 1997 | 4 years probation and ordered to repay $84,609 | |
| Harlan, Brent S | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| In May of 2014, Harlan was involved in a single vehicle collision in Santa Rosa County, Florida. Law enforcement officers investigated the incident and arrested him for driving while under the influence of alcohol (DUI) and for Property Damage. Date convicted: August 18, 2014 | Driving Probation. Fined $1,513.90 | |
| Harlan, Brent S | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Unprofessional Conduct. Dangerous Use of Alcohol and DUI Conviction; Discipline by another state (U. S. Air Force). The Air Force suspended his clinical privileges and issued other disciplinary actions after Harlan, in May of 2014, reported for work intoxicated (at US Air Force in Florida) and a few days later was arrested by police for drunk driving after being involved in a single-car accident. Date convicted: September 21, 2016 | Surrendered his California medical license. | |
| HARPER, IAN | psychiatric nurse | Scotland Glasgow |
| Attempted murder and malicious fire-raising after he twice set fire to the house where he and his landlady lived. Date convicted: February 18, 2000 | Discretionary life in prison | |
| HARRELL-HOUSE, DELORES | counseling center employee | U.S. Georgia |
| Fraudulently billing Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: April 1999 | 10 years in prison, fined $10,000 and ordered to repay $1,132,507 (together with her husband, Robert House) | |
| HARRINGTON, MARLENE GOLUB | psychotherapy clinic operator. | U.S. New Jersey |
| Billing insurers for psychotherapy sessions that never took place. Date convicted: October 9, 1997 | 3 years in state prison | |
| HARRIS, NORMAN DALE | psychotherapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Aggravated sexual assault of a patient. Date convicted: December 12, 1997 | 4 years in jail (deferred) | |
| HARRIS, ROBERT | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl at the facility where he worked. Date convicted: April 1998 | Sentende: 5 to 10 years in prison | |
| Harris , James R. | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Filed false postal insurance claims (relative to antique vases allegedly broken while being shipped by the U.S. Postal Service). Date convicted: February 23, 2004 | 3 years probation with first six months to include home confinement. On June 5, 2005, Harris' license was suspended for 15 months. | |
| Harris, Brian Benjamin | Psychiatrist | United Kingdom Wales |
| Sexually assaulting a mental health support worker. Date convicted: April 20, 2017 | Guilty, unknown sentence | |
| Harris-Boscaino, Lynda | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Felony grand larceny Date convicted: 2011 | Convicted | |
| Harshman, William | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| First-degree home invasion and assault with intent to do great bodily harm (entered a patient's home and stabbed both the patient and a teenage friend of the patient.) Date convicted: October 23, 2008 | Three years prison. | |
| Hartland, Peter | psychiatric nurse | England |
| Actual bodily harm (stabbed ex-lover in the stomach when he declined reconciliation). Date convicted: October 11, 2006 | 6 months jail, suspended one year | |
| Hartogs, Renatus | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: April 1991 | License revoked. | |
| HARTWELL, JOYCE | counselor | U.S. New York |
| Contempt of court after refusing to take care of problems arising from more than $30,000 in unpaid utility bills at 3 buildings that she ran. Date convicted: June 1995 | 30 days in jail | |
| HARTZ, LYNN RICHARDSON | counselor | U.S. South Carolina |
| False billings to insurance companies. Date convicted: January 4, 1995 | 21 months in prison, 3 years supervised release and ordered to pay $737 in restitution | |
| Hastings, Jennifer | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Felony charges of second-degree rape and criminal sex act and misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree sexual abuse, all involving a 14-year-old student. Date convicted: February 6, 2009 | 3 years prison and 5 years post-release supervision. | |
| HASWELL, EVERSLEY "DON" | psychologist | U.S. Colorado |
| Health care fraud and conspiracy to defraud the government. Date convicted: October 17, 2001 | 21 months prison and $524,877 in restitution. | |
| HATCH, DAVID D | therapist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sexual exploitation of a patient. Date convicted: 1997 | 1 year in prison and 10 years probation | |
| Hauser, Richard Lee | Psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| On October 19, 2016, he pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud. He devised and participated in a scheme to obtain money from the State of Iowa Medicaid Program and Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa by means of materially false and fraudulent representations. Hauser would "up code," submitting claims that misrepresented the service Hauser provided to certain patients as a more expensive service so as to increase the amount of reimbursement. He received his sentence on February 28, 2017. Date convicted: February 28, 2017 | Two months in prison (to be served at the same time), three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $200 to the Crime Victims' Fund and $30,879 in restitution | |
| Hauser, Richard Lee | Psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| On several occasions from November 1989 through June 1990, the Respondent consumed alcohol in such an amount that it may have impaired his ability to safely and skillfully practice medicine and surgery as a resident physician. Date convicted: September 17, 1990 | License suspended for 30 days followed by probation for 5 years. | |
| Hauser, Richard Lee | Psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| In 1994, he admitted to the Iowa Medical Board that he had extensive substance abuse problems that went back to 1978. Relapses and continued problems resulted in his surrendering his Wisconsin Medical license in 1986. In 1993 he had more alcohol and drug related incidents causing him to be arrested multiple times. Date convicted: June 15, 1994 | Iowa license was placed on probation for 10 years with restrictions on alcohol and drug use. | |
| Haverly, Jackson L. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Washington |
| Unprofessional conduct; failed to properly safeguard prescriptions. Haverly treated a patient from approximately February - July of 2015 and left prescriptions taped to the inside of the patient's unlocked mailbox. Date convicted: June 30, 2016 | License was suspended. | |
| Hayes, William E. | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Lewd and lascivious conduct with a child. Date convicted: January 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Hayes, William E. | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Lewd and lascivious conduct on a child and indecent exposure. On November 3, 2000 he was convicted for same crime. Date convicted: August 28, 2002 | Convicted | |
| HAYLOCK, DAVID | psychiatric nurse trainee | U.K. Derby |
| Growing marijuana plants. Date convicted: August 26, 2000 | 80 hours community service | |
| Hayter, George M. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sexual intercourse and sexual contact with two patients. Date convicted: September 3, 1993 | License placed on probation for four years. | |
| HEALY, JOHN | psychiatric nurse | U.K. Edinburgh |
| Assaulting his wife with a knife when she wouldn't take him back. Date convicted: June 1, 2000 | 3 years in jail | |
| Hefele, Thomas | psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Unknown. Date convicted: February 2002 | License suspended. | |
| Helgeson, Dannie | psychiatric aide | U.S. Michigan |
| Criminal sexual conduct involving a patient Date convicted: June 26, 2012 | 2 to 15 years prison | |
| Heltzel, D. Terence | psychologist | United States Ohio |
| Heltzel entered into a non-professional relationship with a therapy client after the termination of the professional relationship. Date convicted: April 23, 2013 | License surrendered | |
| HENDERSON, JOHN Q. | psychologist | New Zealand Dunedin |
| Sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy he was treating for sexually deviant behavior. Date convicted: December 11, 1992 | 2 years in jail | |
| HENKE, MITZI L. | mental illness center employee | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Striking a patient. Date convicted: August 24, 1998 | 2 years in prison (deferred) | |
| Henty, David Wilson | psychologist | Austrailia Tasmania |
| Five counts of indecent assault on four schoolboys aged between 11 and 14. Henty indecently assaulted the boys over a 29-year period from 1970 to 1999. Date convicted: October 19, 2005 | Six months jail. | |
| HEPOLA, EUGENE | retired psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Attempted rape (intended to have sex with a 12-year-old girl who was actually an undercover FBI agent he met on the Internet). Date convicted: April 23, 2002 | 4 years prison. | |
| Herlofsen, PÃ¥l H. | psychiatrist | Norway |
| Falsified medical reports for criminals so they could apply for postponed conviction or lesser conviction or avoid going to jail. Date convicted: December 2007 | 2.5 years prison, fined 100,000 NOK (U.S. $18,250) and 25,000 NOK (U.S. $4,500) court expenses. He was also banned from practicing for 3 years. | |
| HERMSEN, ANDRE | center for intellectually handicapped employee. | New Zealand Christchurch |
| Indecent assault on several teenage boys at the center where he was employed. Date convicted: July 15, 2000 | 33 months in jail | |
| Hernandez, Adolfo P. | psychiatrist | psychiatrist U.S. |
| Unlawfully dispensing a controlled substance not for a legitimate medical purpose (wrote thousands of prescriptions for painkilling drugs such as oxycodone for $125 each without an exam, medical records or treatment notes). Date convicted: November 13, 2008 | Six years prison. | |
| HERRERA, ANIBAL | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: November 2, 1992 | Conditional discharge (probation), fined $750 and ordered to pay $22,000 in restitution | |
| Herrera, Arnold | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Defrauded the U.S. Medicaid program of $350,000. Date convicted: February 6, 2007 | Five months jail and full restitution to California Dept. of Health Services and United States' Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services. | |
| HERSHMAN, ALAN | counselor | U.S. Ohio |
| Sexual battery of a female student. Date convicted: May 26, 1999 | 30 days in jail, 3 months house arrest, 100 hours community service and fined $500 | |
| Herwatt, Kathleen | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| Gross Negligence, Failure to Report Child Endangerment, Unauthorized Disclosure of Confidential Information and Repeated Negligent Acts. She was cited for actions with three patients during a period from 2010-2012. Herwatt failed to file a suspected child abuse report after finding that her patient was operating his car after he'd had approximately six alcoholic beverages with his child as a passenger. She also divulged confidential patient information to persons other than to those who were authorized to receive it.
Date convicted: September 15, 2016 | Surrender. | |
| Hesson, Rodney | psychologist | U.S. Mississippi |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: April 13, 2012 | 3 years house arrest, 2 years probation and $29,559 restitution | |
| Hesson, Rodney | Psychologist | U.S. Louisiana |
| He and his mother were each convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to make false statements related to health care matters. They caused their companies to bill Medicare for hours of psychological testing services that nursing home residents did not need or in some cases did not receive. As a result, Medicare paid more than $13.5 million on the fraudulent claims. Date convicted: January 24, 2017 | Convicted (sentencing scheduled for May 4, 2017) | |
| HESTER, ROBERT P. | psychiatric aide | U.S. New York |
| Raping two 14-year-old patients. Date convicted: June 25, 1998 | 4 months in jail and 5 years probation | |
| HEUER, DARWIN | counselor | U.S. South Dakota |
| Molesting boys. Date convicted: December 16, 1999 | 57 years in prison | |
| HEYWOOD, SETH | youth counselor | U.S. Nebraska |
| First-degree sexual assault on a child (had sex with two female residents of the facility where he worked) Date convicted: September 5, 2001 | 3-to-4 years prison. | |
| HICKS, INDGRID D. | psychologist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Fraudulently billing Medicaid for treatments not provided. Date convicted: July 17, 2000 | 6 years in prison, 5 years probation, 100 hours community service and ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution | |
| Higgins, Thomas | therapist | U.S. Michigan |
| 11 counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a mental health professional and 1 count assault with intent to commit sexual penetration (the three victims were traumatic brain injury patients, ages 29 to 48, all of whom disclosed past sexual abuse during counseling sessions with Higgins). Date convicted: March 10, 2008 | 2 to 10 years prison. | |
| Higgins, Colleen | counselor | U.S. Georgia |
| Bilked clients of more than $250,000 in personal "loans." Date convicted: September 13, 2011 | 4 years prison | |
| HIGHTOWER, JON ELLIOT | high school counselor | U.S. California |
| Having sex with a teenage student at the high school where he worked as a counselor and coach. Date convicted: February 27, 1998 | 6 months in jail | |
| HILL, JEAN-CLAUDE PIERRE | psychiatric resident | U.S. Virginia |
| A shooting spree in which he killed one man and injured 2 others. Date convicted: April 28, 1992 | Life in prison | |
| Hill, Nicholas | psychiatrist | U.K. Lincolnshire |
| Downloading child pornography from the internet, and making an indecent film of two young girls in a park. Date convicted: October 11, 2000 | 3 years probation on condition that he receive treatment and be placed on a sex offender register for 5 years. On May 12, 2005, Hill was convicted again on similar charges: 12 counts of making indecent images of children and 4 counts of possessing indecent images of children. Officers who raided Hill's home found over 11,000 indecent images of children on his computer. He was sentenced to two years in jail. Hill's license was revoked in September 2005. | |
| Hill, David | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Abused an 85-year-old dementia patient. Date convicted: May 27, 2010 | 6 months jail. | |
| Hillenbrand, Richard | social worker | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| License suspended in another state. Date convicted: November 2004 | License suspended indefinitely. | |
| Hilsen, Jesse | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| "Deadbeat dad" pleaded guilty to a federal charge for failing to pay child support and alimony for ten years. Date convicted: 31-Oct-05 | Must pay $162,000 in unpaid alimony and child support to his former wife. He spent approximately 15 months in custody while under prosecution. | |
| HINTON, TIFFANY LATINA | counselor | U.S. California |
| Unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor (involving a 16-year-old boy who was under her care). Date convicted: July 24, 2001 | 3 years jail, suspended; 180 days jail and 5 years probation. | |
| HIRSCH, MICHAEL ALAN | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Attempting to distribute lewd material to a minor (arrested in Internet sex sting after arranging an encounter with a presumed 13-year-old girl who was actually a law enforcement officer). Date convicted: April 25, 2001 | 120 days jail (30 days suspended) and 3 years formal probation. | |
| Hirsch, Susan | social worker | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid-related conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| HOCKING, DANIEL | therapist | U.S. Iowa |
| Giving a female patient a sleeping pill without her knowledge and undressing her while she was asleep. Date convicted: March 18, 2000 | 5 years in prison | |
| HOFFMAN, DAVID A. | child psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Sexually abusing a young girl for 2 years, beginning at age 8. Hoffman was previously jailed in 1986 for sexually abusing children at a facility where he worked. Date convicted: June 15, 1994 | 2 years in jail | |
| HOFFMAN, HOWARD B. | social worker | U.S. Virginia |
| Twice selling marijuana to a police informer. Date convicted: September 29, 1999 | 6 months in jail | |
| Hofmeister, Frances G. | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| The Ohio Board of Psychology asserted that Hofmeister "maintained a professional therapeutic relationship with an adult male client from August 1999 to April 2000 whose presenting problems and ongoing psychological and behavioral difficulties were outside Mrs. Hofmeister's area of expertise" and that "Hofmeister failed to recognized that her client...posed a potential threat of physical or mental injury, of a nature that reasonably indicates abuse or neglect of a child under 18 years of age." Hofmeister did not admit or deny the charges but surrendered her license. Date convicted: 2003 | License permanently revoked. | |
| Hogg, Vince | anger management counselor | Scotland |
| Assaulted his domestic partner. Date convicted: October 18, 2008 | 12 months probation. | |
| Holbrook, William Chadwick | social worker | U.S. Utah |
| Accused by licensing board of having engaged in unprofessional conduct with respect to three patients. Date convicted: May 4, 2005 | Voluntarily surrendered license. In October 2005, Holbrook was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| HOLDSWORTH, DARREN | psychiatrist | UK Scotland |
| Indecent assault of a very vulnerable teenage girl (struck victim with a coathanger and engaged in sodomy) who thereafter overdosed. Date convicted: November 21, 2002 | Jailed for 3 years. | |
| Holt, Eric | former psychologist | U.S. Maine |
| Possession of a firearm by a person previously involuntarily committed to a mental institution. (Holt had been in jail for violating a protective order issued by his wife. During incarceration, he was committed to a mental hospital. Upon release in early May 2004, he was arrested for possession of a firearm). Date convicted: November 2005 | 19 months in federal prison less 15 months time already served. | |
| Homer, Adams | counselor and social worker | U.S. Washington |
| Sex with patients. Date convicted: July 2004 | License revoked. Adams was excluded from participation in federally funded health care plans (Medicaid, etc.) in August 2005. | |
| HOOGENBOOM, CAROL | psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Defrauding Medicare insurance. Date convicted: November 6, 1998 | 70 months in prison, 3 year's supervised release and ordered to pay $480,617 in restitution | |
| HOOPER, GERALD L. | mental health hospital director | U.S. Louisiana |
| Receiving child pornography over the Internet. Date convicted: December 16, 1999 | Federal prison for 2 1/2 years, 3 years supervised release and fined $1,000 | |
| Hooper, James F. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Alabama |
| Improper Prescribing. Complaints were received that he was prescribing massive amounts of pain medication to patients without any medical verification. Police arrested Hooper and charged him with five counts of the unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and five counts of trafficking a controlled substance -- opium. Date convicted: July 7, 2016 | Surrendered his license. | |
| Hope, Giraud | mental health business owner | U.S. North Carolina |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: October 20, 2011 | 15 months federal prison and $1,948,451.31 restitution | |
| Hopkins, Matthew | psychiatrist | U.S. New Hampshire |
| Obtained a controlled drug by fraud or deceit. Date convicted: May 10, 2004 | $8,800 in fines and penalties. | |
| HORACE, JOHN | mental health employee | U.S. New York |
| Fondling a woman and another 6 months for posing as a sex therapist. Date convicted: March 1996 | 6 months in jail | |
| HOROWITZ, ALAN J. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Plead guilty to first degree sodomy of a 9-year-old boy, satisfying 40 other charges that alleged he sodomized three boys and sexually abused a girl. Horowitz was convicted of sexually molesting a 12-year-old boy in 1983 at which time he was given a 5 year suspended prison sentence. Date convicted: July 27, 1992 | 10 to 20 years in prison | |
| HOUCK, MARK | mental health counselor | U.S. New Jersey |
| Sexual assault of a 17-year old female patient. Date convicted: July 30, 2004 | Four years prison. | |
| Houlihan, David J. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Houlihan failed to provide appropriate medical care to at least 22 patients between 2005 and 2014, and he engaged in professional misconduct involving eight reported incidents of abuse of authority occurring between 2008 and 2013. Invesigators found that Houlihan treated pharmacy and other staff adversely when they raised concerns regarding his prescriptive practices. He was consequently fired from his postition of Chief of Staff at the VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wisconsin. Before his termination, one of his patients died of mixed-drug toxicity. Houlihan was nicknamed "candy man" by some patients for allegedly handing out excess narcotics. Date convicted: January 18, 2017 | Permanent Surrender of his license. | |
| HOUSE, ROBERT | counseling services operator | U.S. Georgia |
| Fraudulently billing Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: April 1999 | 10 years in prison, fined $10,000 and ordered to repay $1,132,507 (together with his wife, Delores Harrell-House) | |
| HOUSTON, GEORGE SAM MICHAEL | psychotherapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Sexual assaults on female patients. Date convicted: August 1992 | 8 years in prison | |
| HOWARD, RICHARD | social worker | U.S. Kansas |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 26, 1996 | 6 months in prison and 3 years supervised release | |
| HOWARD-COATES, SHIRLEY | group home operator | U.S. Michigan |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 28, 1998 | 4 months in jail with work release, 2 years probation and ordered to pay $78,000 restitution | |
| HOWARTH, WILLIAM | alcohol abuse counselor | U.S. Alaska |
| Bludgeoning a woman to death while he was drunk. Date convicted: January 10, 1996 | 99 years in prison | |
| Howe, Edith | Psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Gross misconduct in the practice of psychology, gross incompetence, gross negligence. On January 25, 2013, Howe wrote a letter on behalf of her client which the client used during the course of her divorce proceedings. In the letter, Howe frequently refereed to her client's husband as "abusive" based upon statements made by her client during therapy sessions without ever having conducted a psychological assessment of the her client's husband. Date convicted: May 8, 2015 | Reprimand. | |
| Howe, Edith | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| Unprofessional conduct based on a Massachusetts Psychology Board action where Howe made unsubstantiated statements in a letter used by her client in a divorce proceeding.
Date convicted: August 11, 2016 | Surrendered his California license. | |
| HOWELL, JAIME R. | mental health aide | U.S. Virginia |
| Sexual battery of 2 patients. Date convicted: March 28, 1991 | 2 years in prison | |
| HOWELL, SAMUEL BROCK | psychologist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Interstate travel for the purpose of engaging in sex with a minor and destruction of evidence of the crime. Date convicted: August 16, 2001 | 21 months prison and 3 years probation. | |
| Howland, Christopher | psychologist | U.S. Washington |
| Unprofessional conduct: Inappropriately touched a female patient, hugged the patient and commented to the patient about her breasts. Date convicted: December 31, 2004 | License revoked and ordered to reimburse the patient for all fees received for counseling. | |
| HUARD, LOUIS | psychiatrist | France Nanterre |
| Gave authorization to leave three drug-addicted prisoners naked in a room with the windows open in winter, with the temperature minus 10 Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) - well below freezing - resulting in hypothermia of which they nearly died. Date convicted: September 19, 2002 | 12 months jail with 8 months suspended. | |
| HUAT, PAUL ONG BOON | family court counselor | Singapore |
| Illegally receiving $200 from a woman he counseled. Date convicted: October 1999 | 1 month in jail | |
| Hubsher, Marshall | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: April 24, 1987 | 4 months jail | |
| Hubsher, Marshall Jeffrey | Psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| Failure to notify the Department of an adverse action by another state. Marshall Hubsher has a history of Criminal convictions and medical board Disciplinary Actions taken on his license in other states. A 1988 SUSPENSION of his NY license was based on a 1982 federal criminal conviction for possessing approximately 2,000 Methaqualone tablets, a 1983 disciplinary action for issuing a prescription for a controlled substance with a false date, and a 1987 state criminal conviction for Medicaid fraud. His New York license was REVOKED in 1995 for fraudulent practice and practicing with a suspended license. He was denied restoration in 2000 but it was restored in 2006. He surrendered his New York license in 2012 for charges of fraudulent practice, false report, failure to maintain records, moral unfitness, negligence and incompetence on more than one occasion, gross negligence, willful patient harassment, abuse or intimidation, and exercising undue influence on a patient. On July 11, 2013, based on his history, he was denied a license by the Maine Board to practice in that state. Date convicted: September 8, 2015 | License revoked in Michigan. Fined $10,000. | |
| Hubsher, Marshall Jeffrey | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Convicted of rape and sexually abusing a woman he was treating for depression in 2012 and was later rearrested, while in prison, for burglary and jury tampering connected with that trial. Separately, Hubsher has been indicted on felony charges of conspiring with a licensed psychiatrist to sell pill prescriptions for Xanax and Adderall for cash and three counts of unauthorized practice of profession. Although his license was surrendered in 2012, Hubsher was still seeing patients while posing as a psychiatrist. Date convicted: March 21, 2016 | To serve between 2 and 3 years in prison. | |
| HUDSON, JR., CHARLES F. | family counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: October 25, 1991 | 90 days in federal prison | |
| Huggins, Julee K. | Psychologist | U.S. New Mexico |
| Between Jan. 2011 and Feb 2014, she executed a scheme to fraudulently obtain money for three health care benefit programs including Medicare and two private plans. Huggins submitted claims for counseling services that were never performed. Huggins defrauded them an aggregate of $157,839.94. Entered a guilty plea on Nov. 3, 2015, to felony healthcare fraud. Date convicted: May 10, 2016 | Sentenced by federal court to 5 years of probation and to pay $157,839.94 in restitution. Her New Mexico Psychologist license is SUSPENDED. | |
| Hughes, Patrick | child psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Inappropriate sexual contact with patient. Date convicted: May 2004 | License suspended. | |
| Huingahau McFarlane-Nathan, Garry | psychologist | New Zealand |
| Excess breath alcohol. This was Mr. Huingahau McFarlane-Nathan's third drunk driving offense. Date convicted: January 2008 | Disqualified from driving for 12 months and ordered to do 250 hours community service. | |
| HULBERT, DEBORAH ANN | clinical social worker | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: December 2000 | 7 years prison, 65 months suspended, and 15 years probation. | |
| HUNTER, JAMES | social worker | U.S. Nebraska |
| Sexually abusing two young boys he had been counseling. Date convicted: March 22, 2000 | 4 years in prison | |
| HURLEY, WALTER | ex-mental health nurse | U.K. Surrey |
| Theft, deception and conspiracy for stealing more than 1 million pounds from the government health insurance. Date convicted: April 2000 | 33 months in jail | |
| HUTHSTEINER, GEORGE | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Billing a state insurance program for therapy which consisted of having sex with the woman while her boyfriend watched. He was previously convicted in 1978 for illegally prescribing drugs and spent 6 days in jail. Date convicted: January 22, 1982 | 6 months in jail and fined $9,760 | |
| HUTTO, DAVID L. | psychiatric patient broker | U.S. Florida |
| Soliciting bribes and kickbacks for finding clients to send to psychiatric facilities whose treatment could be charged to Medicaid. Date convicted: November 1998 | 5 years probation and ordered to pay $5.7 million in restitution | |
| Huyck, Susan | licensed clinical social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: March 2004 | License suspended for one year. | |
| INFINGER, ROBERT W. | mental health executive | U.S. Arkansas |
| Embezzlement. Date convicted: December 1, 1999 | 2 years probation and a $1,000 fine | |
| INGLESTON, RUTH | prison counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Sexual activity with an 18-year old inmate. Date convicted: November 10, 1999 | 25 1/2 months in prison | |
| INGRAM, GRAHAM | psychiatrist | U.K. Oxford |
| Getting drunk and exposing himself while streaking at a party. Date convicted: 1999 | Ordered to pay 150 pounds to charity | |
| INGRAM III, WILLIAM VERNON | middle school counselor | U.S. North Carolina |
| Statutory rape and 9 counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor, for his involvement with a 14-year-old female student. Date convicted: August 1996 | 6 to 8 years in prison, 6 months intensive probation, supervised probation, community service and ordered to pay $3,600 in restitution to the victim and 3 consecutive 16 to 20 months sentences (suspended) | |
| IRVING, ISLA | registered mental nurse | U.K. Wales |
| Ill treatment and willful neglect of eight mentally ill patients. Date convicted: July 2001 | 4 months in jail. | |
| Isaac, Paul | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Raped and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl. Date convicted: March 3, 2010 | Jailed 11 years. | |
| Israel, Matthew | psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Criminal behavior. Israel destroyed evidence in defiance of state's order to preserve it. Israel was the founder and director of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a facility for troubled children. JRC is the only facility that used a method of "aversion therapy" utilizing a shock device worn by the student and triggered by JRC counselors. JRC counselors delivered repeated shocks to two students (29 to one and 77 to the other) in a 2007 incident which was later found to have been prompted by a prank caller posing as a supervisor. Israel destroyed surveillance video of the incident. Date convicted: May 26, 2011 | Israel was indicted on the criminal charge and was offered pre-trial probation for five years and permanent resignation of his position at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts. | |
| Ivan, Anca Mirela | Psychologist | U.S. Oregon |
| Violated Ethical Standards by having submitted a false licensing application to the Board. She did not disclose all facts concerning a drunk driving (DUI) and reckless driving conviction in 2013.
Date convicted: January 16, 2017 | Reprimand and $1,000 fine. | |
| Ivanov, Valery | psychiatrist | Russia |
| Offerred to get a soldier released from military service for 45,000 rubles (approximately U.S. $1,600). Date convicted: February 10, 2010 | 2 year conditional sentence. | |
| Iyer, Shivkumar Lakshminarayan | Psychiatrist | U.S. West Virginia |
| Sexual misconduct, irregularities in prescribing, being in an intoxicated or drugged state while at work. His license was suspended in July 2002 for two years with the charges of "exercising influence with a patient/physician relationship for purposes of engaging a patient in sexual activity." The suspension was followed by 5 years probation with conditions. His license was restored in July 2009. In 2013, the Board began receiving reports of irregular prescribing and other misconduct. In June 2014, Iver was found intoxicated in the parking lot of his workplace. Date convicted: January 11, 2016 | License was revoked. | |
| Iyer, Shivkumar Lakshminarayan | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Based on a 2015 Summary Suspension order in West Virginia. Date convicted: February 9, 2016 | Indefinitely suspended. | |
| JACKSON, DOMINIC | psychiatrist | U.K. Slough |
| Sexually assaulting a teenage girl and sending her pornography. Date convicted: Circa 1999 | 18 months in jail of which he served 4 weeks | |
| JACKSON, JOHN DAVID | counselor | Canada Toronto |
| Sexually assaulting a handicapped woman under his care. Date convicted: April 20, 1994 | Nearly 2 years in prison | |
| JACKSON, LINCOLN ANDREW | psychiatric nurse | New Zealand Wellington |
| Sexual assault of a patient. Date convicted: March 1997 | 2 years in jail | |
| JACKSON, MARK M. | mental health executive | U.S. Kansas |
| Paying bribes to a U.S. postal worker to supply patients for the psychiatric hospital where he worked. Date convicted: December 12, 1994 | 34 months in prison and ordered to pay $7,892 in fines and costs | |
| JACOBSON, CLIFFORD R. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: January 2002 | 6 months home confinement, 5 years probation, $786,585 restitution, $50,000 fine and 250 hours volunteer community service annually for five years. | |
| Jacobson, Clifford Robert | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| He committed professional misconduct by practicing medicine with negligence. He failed to document an adequate medical history and appropriate medical indications for controlled substances for multiple patients. Date convicted: February 27, 2017 | License Surrendered | |
| Jacques, Arnold | psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Medicaid-Medicare fraud. Date convicted: November 29, 2010 | 3 years prison. | |
| Jagne, Bongiwe | psychologist | South Africa |
| 5 counts of fraud in obtaining a loan. Date convicted: May 25, 2010 | 5 years jail. | |
| JAIN, SWARAN KUMAR | psychologist | U.S. Kansas |
| Receiving illegal payments (called kickbacks) in exchange for referring his patients to North Hills Hospital. Date convicted: July 5, 1995 | 6 months home detention, 5 years probation and fined $10,000 | |
| JAMES, ROBERT E. | mental health executive | U.S. New York |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: June 12, 1996 | 4 to 12 years in prison, fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $15,000 restitution | |
| JANKS, ANN PHYLLIS | educational psychologist | South Africa Johannesburg |
| Conspiring to murder a US district attorney. Date convicted: Circa late 2002 | 1 year in jail and a fine of 2.2 million South African Rands (approx. US $250,000). | |
| JARAMILLO, JAMES D.C. | psychiatrist | U.S. New Mexico |
| Defrauding government health insurance programs. Date convicted: November 25, 1996 | 8 months in prison and ordered to pay $23, 973 in penalties and restitution | |
| Jarmon, Robert | psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Engaged in sexual contact, including intercourse, with a psychiatric patient. Date convicted: December 15, 2003 | License revoked. | |
| Jarvis, Gretchen | county mental health administrator | U.S. Vermont |
| Embezzlement and financial exploitation (embezzled $34,492.80 from the county mental health services agency where she worked, inappropriately wrote checks from patients' accounts and took money from other patients' accounts). Date convicted: January 11, 2007 | 5 to 10 1/2 years prison, all suspended except for 9 days to serve. She was placed on probatation and will make full restitution of $34,492.80. | |
| JEFFREY, COSMO WILLIAM | social worker | New Zealand Wellington |
| His part in an international drug conspiracy dealing street drugs. Date convicted: November 24, 2000 | 6 years in jail | |
| JENKINS, HOWARD LEE | counselor | U.S. Kansas |
| Sexual battery of a female patient. Date convicted: December 5, 1997 | 1 year in jail | |
| Jewell, Thomas P. | marriage & family therapist intern | U.S. California |
| Production of child pornography Date convicted: February 29, 2012 | 29 years prison | |
| Johnmeyer, Joshua | counselor | U.S. Missouri |
| Medicaid fraud, Obstruction and Stealing by Deceit Date convicted: November 4, 2011 | 5 years probation and 7 days "shock" incarceration and $3,654 fine | |
| JOHNSON, ANTHONY | caretaker for mentally disabled | U.S. Maryland |
| Taking the funds of the mentally retarded patients, who he was in charge of, for personal use. Date convicted: May 7, 1997 | 2 years probation and ordered to pay $2,854 restitution | |
| JOHNSON, MICHAEL | youth counselor | U.S. Alaska |
| Perjury He lied to the court about meeting a former girlfriend, who had accused him of rape during a custody battle for their children. Date convicted: September 28, 2000 | 250 hours of community service within a 2 year probation period | |
| JOHNSON, VAN | psychiatrist | U.S. Indiana |
| Shooting and killing a man who came to his door to collect money owed to his children for delivering newspapers to Johnson. Date convicted: July 15, 1996 | 40 years in jail | |
| Johnson, Edwin Lee | psychiatrist | U.S. Minnesota-North Dakota |
| Criminal sexual conduct (numerous instances of sexual contact with a woman he was counseling between April 2003 and June 2004). Date convicted: August 3, 2006 | One year county jail. Johnson entered in an agreement with the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice in March 2005 to cease practicing; in 2006 the North Dakota Board of Medical Examiners permanently suspended his license. | |
| Johnson, James L. | mental health counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Assault in the fourth degree with sexual motivation and domestic violence. (Johnson touched a child's breast. At the time, the child was living in Johnson's household, he was responsible for the child's well-being and was in a position of authority over the child.) Date convicted: April 21, 2009 | Unknown | |
| Johnson, Kellion | mental health facility manager | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid program-related conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Johnson, Beatrice Anne | Psychiatrist | U.S. Vermont |
| Failing to maintain medical records which adequately and timely documented patient encounters. Date convicted: August 6, 2014 | Reprimand and order for remedial training. | |
| Johnson, Beatrice Anne | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Based on charges in the 2014 Vermont discipline of failing to maintain medical records. Date convicted: February 18, 2016 | Voluntary Surrender. | |
| JOHNSON, JR., RUDOLPH THOMAS | psychiatric aide | U.S. Virginia |
| Sexually assaulted two drugged psychiatric patients. Date convicted: July 10, 2002 | 10 years prison | |
| Johnston, Sandra K. | Psychologist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| While Johnston was employed as a staff psychologist at a correctional institution, she had an ongoing romantic relationship with the patient. Date convicted: August 25, 2016 | License was suspended 1 year. | |
| JOLLEY, GLENN W. | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Taking indecent liberties with a female patient (fondled a patient's breast and other parts of her body during a counseling session). Date convicted: January 2002 | 18 months prison followed by 3 years community custody and registration as a convicted sex offender. One of the provisions on release is that he does not engage in counseling. | |
| JONES, CHARLES EDFORD | mental health employee | U.S. Tennessee |
| Sexually assaulting a female patient. Date convicted: October 13, 1999 | 15 months in jail | |
| JONES, EDWARD FRANCIS | psychiatric nurse | Canada Calgary |
| Stealing $4,800 from an elderly patient. Date convicted: January 25, 1994 | 20 months in jail | |
| JONES, TOBIN | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Murdering his wife. Date convicted: October 23, 1998 | 53 years in jail | |
| Jones, Ken | counselor | U.S. Oregon |
| Sexual abuse and domestic assault on his wife. Date convicted: March 4, 2005 | 45 days in jail, 36 months' probation, 100 hours community service, must register as sex offender and pay $1,674 in fines and $340 in restitution. Jones also voluntarily surrendered license In March 2005 while incarcerated on the criminal charges. | |
| Jordan, Guy | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: July 29, 2022 | Six months house arrest and five years probation | |
| JUAREZ, JESUS REYNA | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Providing prescription painkillers to an undercover officer in exchange for money and marijuana. Date convicted: June 13, 1994 | 3 years probation and 350 hours community service | |
| Juchmes, Paul Wayne | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Child endangerment. This conviction was the result of a plea which Juchmes entered in response to charges which included possession of child pornography. Date convicted: July 13, 2004 | 112 days in jail and 2 years probation. He surrendered his license to practice to the State of California on September 12, 2006. | |
| Jurand, Joseph A. | Psychiatrist | U.S. West Virginia |
| Sexual misconduct toward a minor under the age of sixteen. The indictment stated he had inappropriate sexual contact with a 15 year old girl in April of 2012. He was convicted of Third Degree Sexual Abuse on September 30, 2013. Dr. Jurand admitted that he engaged in an illegal and inappropriate relationship of a sexual nature with the victim. Date convicted: January 6, 2014 | 5 years probation; 500 hours of community service; registered for life as Sex Offender. | |
| Jurand, Joseph A. | Psychiatrist | U.S. West Virginia |
| As a result of criminal conviction of sexual misconduct. Date convicted: June 30, 2014 | WV medical license was put on Probation. | |
| Jurand, Joseph A. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Based on conviction of criminal sexual misconduct charges in West Virginia. Date convicted: September 11, 2016 | License revoked in Maryland. | |
| Jurand, Joseph A. | Psychiatrist | U.S. West Virginia |
| In August of 2016, he was found to be operating a private practice clinic in violation of the terms and conditions of his probation. Date convicted: September 12, 2016 | Suspension activated, On April 4, 2017, his license was placed on Probation with restrictions until June 30, 2020. | |
| Juwah, Alexander | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Offering a false instrument for filing: Juwah falsely reported on his driver's license renewal form that he had never had nor been treated for a medical condition that caused unconsciousness when in fact he had a seizure disorder. On the morning of November 4, 2006 he blacked out behind the wheel, causing a multi-car accident resulting in three fatalities and injuries to seven others. Date convicted: 2008 | 1 year conditional discharge (suspended sentence with conditions) and 150 hours community service. | |
| KABAT, DOUGLAS C | treatment center owner | U.S. New York |
| He and his partner, James Garret, stole from Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: April, 1998 | 2 year conditional discharge, 500 hours community service and ordered to repay $113,000 | |
| KALB, TODD C | mental health employee | U.S. California |
| His company, Todco, Inc., provided collection services for American Psychometric Consultants, Inc., which defrauded insurance companies through fraudulent billing for psychological testing. Date convicted: April, 1998 | 10 months in jail | |
| KAMKA, GORDON C. | substance abuse counselor | U.S. Virginia |
| Domestic assault and destruction of property during a fight with a woman. who shared his house Date convicted: July 22, 1996 | 60 days in jail and 3 years probation | |
| Kamugisha, Chris | psychiatrist | UK |
| Dishonestly claimed more than £16,000 in benefits over two-and-a-half years. Date convicted: November 2004 | License suspended 4 months. | |
| Kamyuka, Frederick | psychiatrist | UK |
| Prescription fraud Date convicted: May 27, 2010 | 100 hours unpaid work (community order) | |
| Kaplowitz, Barry | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Kaplowitz participated in a $5.5 million Medicare fraud scheme involving fraudulent billings by a psychiatric hospital in Hollywood, Florida. He was convicted of making false statements related to health care matters in February 2015, following a six-week jury trial. Kaplowitz served as the medical director at the facility from 2008 to 2011 during which time he signed false and fraudulent medical records in order to make it appear that the facility's patients qualified for and received intensive outpatient services, even though they did not. Kaplowitz signed patient files for over 400 patients falsely certifying that he had treated them when he hadn't. He used the records to submit over 2,800 false claims to Medicare. Date convicted: April 30, 2015 | 5 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.9 million in restitution. | |
| Kaplowitz, Barry | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Based on his 2015 Medicare Fraud conviction. Date convicted: September 30, 2015 | Excluded from participating in Medicare or Medicaid for a minumum of 20 years. | |
| Kaplowitz, Barry | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Based on his 2015 Medicare Fraud conviction. Date convicted: June 15, 2016 | License revoked by Florida medical board. | |
| Karadzic, Radovan | Psychiatrist | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Convicted of genocide and other charges. A Yugoslav war crimes tribunal found him guilty of orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people dead. The U.N. court found Karadzic criminally responsible for genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered. He was also held criminally responsible for murder, attacking civilians and terror for overseeing the deadly 44-month siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, during the war. Date convicted: March 4, 2016 | 40 years in prison. | |
| KARAKOUDAS, ANDREW G | mental health employee | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Beat two retarded men in their care and videotaped the beating. Date convicted: December 11, 1991 | 90 days in jail along with another employee | |
| Karalis, George | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Workers Compensation insurance fraud Date convicted: February 10, 2022 | 120 days prison and $1.4 million restitution | |
| KARMELEK, EUGENE | mental health executive | U.S. Massachusetts |
| His role in Executive Management Associates, which defrauded 8 non-profit mental health care companies which provided services to de-institutionalized, mentally retarded individuals. Date convicted: January 15, 1998 | 3 months community confinement and ordered to pay his share of $3,526,966 restitution | |
| Karnam, Nirmala | psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Reckless endangerment and traffic violations (caused a traffic accident that killed an 18-year-old). Date convicted: August 28, 2008 | 4 years probation, loss of driver's license, 300 hours of community service and was ordered by judge to pay $10,000 into a scholarship fund named in honor of victim. | |
| Karpf, Richard | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Criminal possession of a weapon. Karpf was initially under investigation for charges of conspiracy to commit murder, after he was reported to police by patient whom he had tried to persuade to obtain a handgun for him to use to commit a murder. Date convicted: May 27, 2004 | 3 months jail (time he had already served), 5 years probation and the surrender of his medical license. Karpf surrendered both his New York and California medical licenses August 1, 2005. He was no longer allowed to practice in the state of Florida as of September 2, 2005. | |
| KARUNDASA, BALAPITIYA | psychiatrist | U.K. Brecon |
| Indecently assaulting two elderly men in their homes. Date convicted: Circa 2000 | Jailed for an unknown length of time | |
| Katowitz, Jeffrey | marriage and family therapist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Convicted of a felony or a crime of moral turpitude and departed from or failed to conform to the standards of acceptable and prevailing marriage and family therapy practice. Date convicted: February 25, 2010 | License suspended; suspension stayed in favor of probation. | |
| Katz, Ronald | psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Medicaid fraud and practicing without a license. Date convicted: April 14, 2004 | License revoked. In November 2005, Katz was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Kaufman, Arlan | residential Treatment Center Owner | U.S. Kansas |
| 30 criminal counts including health care fraud, Medicare fraud, forced labor and holding clients in involuntary servitude. Date convicted: January 23, 2006 | 30 years prison | |
| Kaufman, Linda | residential Treatment Center Owner | U.S. Kansas |
| 30 criminal counts including health care fraud, Medicare fraud, forced labor and holding clients in involuntary servitude. Date convicted: January 23, 2006 | 7 years prison | |
| Kaza, Mohan Viswa | Psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| On April 9, 2013, Respondent was convicted of Operating While Impaired by Liquor. On November 6, 2014, Respondent was convicted of Operating - While Intoxicated - 3rd Offense, a felony. On four occasions in 2016, Respondent's urine drug screens tested positive for alcohol and failed to comply with a disciplinary monitoring agreement imposed by the Michigan medical board. Date convicted: January 18, 2017 | Suspended for a minimum of three months to be followed by 2 years probation. | |
| KECK, HELENA FRANCES | youth counselor intern | U.S. Oregon |
| Contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor and official misconduct (had sexual relationship with a 16-year-old facility resident). Date convicted: November 14, 2002 | 1 year prison less time served of 160 days, 60 months probation, $565 fines and court costs, no contact with minors and must enroll in a sex offender program. | |
| KEELAN, EDWARD M. | psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Illegally prescribing drugs to addicts in exchange for money. Date convicted: December 16, 1988 | 5 years in prison, 5 years probation and fined $25,000 | |
| Kellaway, Stephen | psychologist | UK |
| Benefit fraud and identity fraud (faked his own death and claimed housing subsidy despite having a property portfolio of considerable worth). Date convicted: February 29, 2012 | 32 months prison | |
| Kelley, Severance B. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| Unprofessional Conduct -- From approximately May through November 2015, he prescribed psychiatric drugs to two patients with dosages that were either too high or increased too rapidly. Prescribing practices were not within generally accepted standards of medical practice.
Date convicted: September 8, 2016 | Relinquished license. Agreed to retire. | |
| KELLY, JAMES | psychiatric nurse | Ireland Cork |
| Sexually abusing young boys at a school for disadvantaged children where he worked in the 1950 and 60s. Date convicted: November 24, 1999 | 36 years | |
| Kelly, Susan | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Felony conviction relating to controlled substances. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Kelly, Robert | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Murdered his daughter with a baseball bat Date convicted: July 11, 2012 | 23-30 years prison | |
| Kelly, Pamlyn | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| Between 2010 and 2014, Kelly committed billing fraud by receiving payment for services not actually provided, communicated confidential patient information to other patients, failed to properly keep progress notes for patients, entered into impermissible multiple relationships with patients and failed to provide adequate forensic reports. Date convicted: Ocober 14, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| Kelly-Byrne, Diana | psychologist | Australia Melbourne, Victoria |
| Failed to manage conflicts of interest and engaged in a personal relationship that transgressed professional boundaries; Kelly-Byrne engaged in a secret "affair of the heart" with a man while treating his former wife for depression over their failed marriage. Date convicted: March 4, 2004 | License suspended for nine months. | |
| KELTY, STEVEN | counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl Date convicted: August 8, 2002 | Up to 21 years in jail; 5 years probation; ordered to undergo a drug & alcohol evaluation and complete a program for sex offenders. | |
| KENDALL, GARY HACKLER | youth counselor | U.S. West Virginia |
| Receiving child pornography on his home computer. Date convicted: March 12, 2001 | 5 years in federal prison. | |
| Kermath, Nancy | psychiatrist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Unethical and unprofessional conduct involving drugs. Date convicted: November 2004 | License indefinitely suspended. | |
| Kern, Stephen Wayne | mental health facility director | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: July 21, 2003 | 5 year deferred prison sentence; $1,500 fine, $48,275 restitution, $3,908 investigative costs and $500 to a victim's compensation fund. In October 2005, Kern was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Kern, Sidney Darnell | counselor, counseling center operator | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| KESSLER, KEVIN LAMONT | psychiatric nurse | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault (sexual assaults of two patients). Date convicted: April 9, 2001 | Concurrent sentences of 5-to-10 years and 2 1/2-to-5 years | |
| KESTENBAUM, RICHARD | psychologist | U.S. Maine |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: May 28, 1992 | 27 months of a 6 year jail sentence (balance suspended), 4 years probation and ordered to pay $42,892.00 in restitution | |
| KETTERLING, THOMAS | school psychologist | U.S. Nebraska |
| Violating child pornography laws. Date convicted: June 1, 1996 | Probation, fined $3,000 and barred from working with children | |
| Keys, Donald L. | social worker and professional counselor | U.S. Minnesota, Wisconsin |
| Possession and production of child pornography. Date convicted: December 6, 2004 | 15 years federal prison, 5 years supervised release. | |
| Khan, Mohammed A. R. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| In 2012, charged with writing more than 3,100 prescriptions for more than 145,000 pills including Adderall, Ritalin and Xanax for patients without medical necessity, Khan pleaded guilty to unlawful administration of a controlled substance by a physician, insurance fraud and conspiracy. People on the street referred to Khan as "The Candyman" because of how easy it was to get a prescription from him. The Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General called Khan the most successful drug dealer in Berks County. Date convicted: December 11, 2015 | 2-4 years in state prison, to be followed by 8 years of probation. | |
| Khan, Mohammed A. R. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Medical Board discipline was based on his December 11, 2012 criminal conviction for unlawful prescribing. Date convicted: June 2, 2016 | License is suspended for at least 10 years. | |
| Khatri, Jameel | psychiatrist | U.S., Canada Nebraska |
| Possession of child pornography. Date convicted: September 2005 | License revoked. | |
| Khitab, Allan Umar | psychiatrist | Canada Ontario |
| Disgraceful, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct. This is the charge that Khitab pleaded guilty to in exchange for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario withdrawing four other charges including sexual abuse and sexual impropriety. Khitab had been accused of sexually preying on young male patients. In an agreed statement of facts with the College, Khitab admitted that he "engaged in boundary violations of a sexual nature" against five patients. Date convicted: October 19, 2001 | License permanently revoked. | |
| KIDRON, RICARDO | psychiatrist | Israel |
| Raping 3 patients, one of whom he impregnated. Date convicted: Circa 1992 | 8 years in prison | |
| Kieffer-Andrews, Marilyn J. | psychologist | U.S. Arizona |
| Unprofessional conduct. Date convicted: August 2005 | License placed on inactive status; not allowed to renew or seek reinstatement. | |
| King, Dennis M. | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| "...unprofessional or dishonorable conduct...likely to defraud, deceive or injure the public because of violations of a previous Board Order, and use of alcohol or drugs in a...manner that could endanger a patient's life." Date convicted: August 2003 | License revoked. | |
| King, Kathleen | Psychologist | U.S. Missouri |
| She had an improper sexual relationship with a patient from July to September 2013 after she ended his treatment in June 2012. Date convicted: March 21, 2016 | License was surrendered. | |
| KLINE, MILTON V | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Perjury for lying in court about his credentials. Date convicted: February 10, 1982 | Fined $5,000 | |
| Kljusev, Ljudmil | Psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Prescribing Adderall and Xanax, among other drugs, to people who did not medically require them. Allowed prescriptions to be written by his assistant while he was away. Evidence was found showing that he was illegally selling prescriptions for cash. On Nov. 30, 2016, Kljusev pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled narcotics and one count of health care fraud. Date convicted: March 22, 2016 | 26 months jail, followed by three years of supervised release. Ordered to pay a $17,500 fine and $31,081 restitution. Forfeited his offices and nearly $300,000 in cash and account holdings. | |
| Kljusev, Ljudmil | Psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Coincident with his November 2016 convictions for illegal drug distribution and healthcare fraud. Date convicted: February 28, 2017 | Voluntary Agreement Not To Renew Or Reinstate License. | |
| KLOPP, HENRY LEE | psychiatric aide | U.S. Oregon |
| Sexually assaulting a mentally retarded patient. Date convicted: May 8, 2000 | More than 8 years in prison | |
| KLUS, LEROY | counselor | U.S. New Mexico |
| A variety of sexual offenses involving children. Date convicted: June 14, 1999 | 13 1/2 years in prison | |
| Knaus, Ronald | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Possession of marijuana Date convicted: October 7, 2010 | Unknown | |
| KNIGHT, STUART | prison psychometrist | Canada Brantford, Ontario |
| Multiple counts of sexual assault and breach of trust (coerced a dozen inmates to engage in sexual activity, telling them that in exchange, he would use his influence to secure them early parole or placement in a temporary absence program). Date convicted: February 26, 2002 | 2 years less one day prison with 11 months credited for time served. | |
| Knowles, Margaret | Psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| She supplied herself with amphetamines by writing prescriptions in other doctors' names and pleaded guilty in March to attempting obtain a drug by fraud. Date convicted: May 9, 2017 | 16 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release | |
| KOBASHIGAWA, TED | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal insurance fraud and illegally prescribing drugs. Date convicted: October 10, 1997 | 120 days in county jail, 4 years probation and ordered to pay $1,000 in restitution | |
| KOBRIN, KENNARD | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Illegally prescribing a tranquilizer to an active substance abuser and ordering medically unnecesary psychological tests for two other patients. Date convicted: May 30, 2003 | Two 18-month and one 9-month prison sentences, suspended, ordered to pay $11,000 in fines and barred from prescribing medicine for two years. | |
| Kobrin, Kennard | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Convicted of Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: November 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Kocher, Joyce Marie | Psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Suspended for failure to file and/or pay Illinois state income taxes.
Date convicted: April 16, 2016 | License suspended. Suspension has since been lifted. | |
| KOENIG, RICHARD | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 26, 1991 | 6 months in jail, 3 1/2 years probation and fined $25,000 | |
| Koffman, Allyson | psychotherapist | Canada |
| Personal relationship with patient. Date convicted: August 2003 | 3-month suspension. | |
| KOMPUS, LARRY L | psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| Delivery of a controlled substance and criminal sexual conduct with a male patient Date convicted: January 1, 1979 | 1 to 7 years in prison | |
| KOTUA, LEON TE WERA | mental health employee | New Zealand Nelson |
| Wounding with intent to injure (undertook a "vigilante mission," beating a man alleged to have indecently assaulted a woman). Date convicted: July 6, 2001 | 18 months prison. | |
| KRIVACSKA, JAMES | school psychologist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Sexually abusing 2 mentally retarded teenage boys under his care. Date convicted: March 12, 1999 | 26 years in jail | |
| KRONE, JACKI | counseling center director | U.S. Florida |
| Being part of a tax evasion scheme. Date convicted: January 7, 1999 | 3 years probation and ordered to pay $32,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Kruger, Jaco | psychologist | South Africa |
| Murder, assault and attempted murder. Date convicted: November 3, 2006 | 10 years in prison. | |
| Kruger, Jaco | psychologist | South Africa |
| Culpable homicide, attempted murder and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm (shot and killed his brother-in-law and assaulted and wounded his own wife). Date convicted: November 3, 2006 | 10 years prison for homicide, 5 years prison for attempted murder and 2 years prison for assault, to run concurrently. | |
| KRUSZECKI, LEONARD | former county psychologist | U.S. California |
| Embezzlement (pretended to work for the county from home while actually holding a similar job in a neighboring county). Date convicted: October 25, 2001 | 60 days jail, 3 years supervised probation, $200 fine and $5,619 restitution. | |
| Kuehl, Susan | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Questions of Kuehl's mental health and behavior. She was criminally charged with breaking into hospital offices and stealing confidential personnel files. Date convicted: August 2003 | License suspended. Kuehl surrendered her license October 13, 2004. She was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in August 2005. | |
| Kuemmerle, Nathan | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Distribution of a controlled substance. Date convicted: May 18, 2011 | 3 years probation. | |
| Kusior, Lorraine | counselor | U.S. Missouri |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: August 8, 2011 | 5 years probation and $29,036 restitution | |
| KWIATKOWSKI, MARIE | psychologist | Belgium Brussels |
| Dousing the British Prime Minister with ink. Date convicted: March 29, 1992 | 6 months in prison | |
| KWONG, LEUNG | psychiatric orderly | China |
| Sexually assaulting a mentally handicapped female patient. Date convicted: February 23, 1993 | 18 months in jail | |
| Kyle, George | counselor | U.S. Kentucky |
| Promotion of prostitution. Date convicted: June 16, 2010 | Pleaded guilty; sentenced pending. | |
| LaBounty, Karen | Psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| In 2010, LaBounty breached professional boundaries with a client she was treating at St. Paul Hospital. She also reported memory problems which called into question her ability to practice with reasonable skill and safety. Date convicted: February 18, 2016 | License was revoked. | |
| Lackings, Sandra Rose | social workder | U.S. Florida |
| Exploitation of and theft from the elderly Date convicted: June 30, 2010 | Unknown | |
| Lafuente Casco, Maria Alejandra | psychologist | Mexico |
| Murder: After giving her husband sleep drugs, she dismembered him with an electric saw and scattered his remains around Mexico City. Date convicted: Sept. 18, 2022 | 46 years in prison | |
| LAI, THOMAS YUEN CHEN | counselor | U.S. California |
| Stealing $2.8 million from the federal government through false medical reimbursement claims. Date convicted: April 16, 1999 | 4 years in prison, ordered to pay nearly $3 million in fines and restitution | |
| Lake, Robert Roland | counselor | U.S. Utah |
| Addiction to controlled substances which, if left untreated, could affect his ability to safely practice. In July 2002 Lake falsified his application for licensure regarding prior arrests and convictions.
Date convicted: September 24, 2004 | Voluntarily surrendered his license. In March 2005, Lake was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| LAMB, GERALDINE A | hypnotherapist | U.S. Missouri |
| Health insurance fraud and practicing psychology without a license. Date convicted: July, 1998 | 30 months in prison | |
| LAMBERT, DENNY RAY | psychiatrist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Illegally distributing prescription drugs. Date convicted: March, 2000 | 57 months in prison | |
| Land, Paula | psychologist | U.S. New Mexico |
| Sexual relationship with patient. Date convicted: March 2003 | License revoked. | |
| Langford, Donald | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Felony Aggravated Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (was charged three times in a four-year period). Date convicted: July 2008 | Unknown. | |
| LANGSHAW, ALAN | counselor | U.K. Widnes |
| 28 sexual assaults against children. Date convicted: November 25, 1994 | 10 years in jail | |
| LAPID, GIDON | psychiatrist | Israel Tel Aviv |
| Forging documents to exempt soldiers from duty in exchange for money. Date convicted: October 31, 2000 | 18 months prison, 18 months suspended sentence and fined | |
| LAPOINTE, PIERRE | psychiatrist | Canada Quebec |
| Sexually assaulting one of his patients. Date convicted: June 2, 1999 | 18 months in prison | |
| Lassiter, Paulette Denise | Psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| She engaged in romantic and inappropriate relationships with former and current patients. A March 2016 evaluation determined that she was not fit to practice clinical psychiatry. Date convicted: October 19, 2016 | License was indefinitely suspended. | |
| Laufer, German | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Criminal facilitation (relative to insurance claims fraud). Date convicted: July 16, 2009 | One year conditional sentence. | |
| Laughlin, Lee | counselor | U.S. Vermont |
| Relapse into substance abuse and termination from employment due to unsatisfactory work performance.
Date convicted: August 25, 2004 | State license suspended indefinitely. In June 2005, Laughlin was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| LAWDER, KAREN A | social worker | U.S. New Jersey |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 4, 1999 | 3 years in state prison and ordered to pay $11,440 in fines and restitution | |
| LAWRENCE, TERI T. | mental health executive | U.S. Louisiana |
| Charging Medicaid insurance for counseling services not provided. Date convicted: January 29, 1997 | 5 years probation, 300 hours community service and ordered to pay $485,962 repayment to Medicaid insurance | |
| LAWRENCE, THOMAS | psychotherapist | U.S. Missouri |
| Defrauding Medicaid health insurance. Date convicted: August 6, 1997 | 30 days in jail, 5 years suspended prison sentence, 5 years probation and ordered to pay $51,727.00 in costs and restitution | |
| Layne, Christopher | Psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Unprofessional conduct based on negative reports and complaints that the psychology board received in 2013 related to his treatment of patients, mostly having to do with "competency deficiencies" in his patient evaluations and his inappropriate interactions with his patients. Date convicted: January 29, 2015 | Permitted to practice until license expiration on September 30, 2016. Agreed to permanently retire. | |
| LEADER, WILLIAM | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Fourteen misdemeanor counts of prescribing controlled substances to an addict or habitual user. One died as a result of intake of drugs that were prescribed to him by Dr. Leader. Date convicted: February 5, 2001 | 5 years in jail. | |
| LEANORD, JOHN J | psychiatric nurse | U.S. Georgia |
| Repeatedly sodomizing a 15-year-old patient. Date convicted: August 16, 1996 | 10 years in prison | |
| Leber, Ronald W. | Unlicensed mental health counselor | U.S. Oregon |
| Third-degree sexual abuse. (Leber made a female patient touch his penis on their first and only counseling session.) Date convicted: Februrary 5, 2008 | 30 days jail, 3 years probation and must register as a sex offender for life. | |
| Ledbetter, Randall | counselor | U.S. Illinois |
| Felony conviction related to controlled substances. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Leddy, Matthew | psychologist | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: April 21, 2010 | 30 days jail and $228,747 restitution. | |
| Ledner, Brooke | Psychologist | Australia New South Wales |
| She counselled a patient with an alcohol problem and then had a sexual relationship with him which lasted for several months and included alcohol use. She intimated that she had occasions of driving while intoxicated and made references suggesting she was using alcohol as a coping mechanism. She admitted to unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct. Date convicted: June 15, 1994 | License Suspended -- banned from providing health services for a year. | |
| Lee , Chartock | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Practicing while impaired by alcohol. Date convicted: April 2005 | License surrendered. | |
| LEE, BRIAN KEITH | counselor | Canada Toronto |
| Stealing $735,000 from his former place of work Date convicted: February, 1997 | 20 months in prison | |
| Lee, John | psychiatrist | USA California |
| Making criminal threats and assault by means of forces likely to produce great bodily injury.
Date convicted: May 2, 2017 | Three years’ probation with conditions which included a 52-week anger management course or 52 weeks of psychiatric counseling NOTE: Dr. Lee was legally known as Dirk De Brito when he was charged and convicted. He changed his name circa 2021. | |
| Leech-Porter, Jack Colin George | psychiatrist | Canada British Columbia |
| Hugged and kissed a patient. Date convicted: May 31, 2004 | License suspended one month. | |
| Leedom, Liane | psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Conspiracy to commit misuse of the title 'doctor' and two counts of reckless endangerment: While employed as the medical director of a methadone clinic, Leedom allowed her then-husband (who was not a physician) to engage in the unlicensed practice of medicine, during which he treated numerous facility patients and sexually assaulted female patients. Date convicted: 2004 | 2 years of probation. On May 17, 2005, the Connecticut Medical Examining Board reprimanded Leedom and restricted her license to non-clinical practice. On October 19, 2010, the Board reinstated her license with permanent restrictions and placed it probation for three years with numerous terms and conditions. Conditions of her reinstatement include, among other things: permanent restriction from serving or being employed in any position as a director, manager or practitioner in charge or any medical facility or treatment center; permanent restriction such that she many only practice in an office setting that includes other physicians. She is also required to provide a copy of the reinstatement consent order to her employer, partners and/or associates at any hospital, clinic, partnership and/or association at which she is employed or with which she is affiliated or has privileges at. | |
| LEHRMAN, NATHANIEL | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Stealing more than $1.3 million from the state Medicaid insurance program. Date convicted: December 12, 1991 | 1 to 3 years in jail | |
| LEMKE, MARK | drug abuse counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Drug-related offenses, including terrorizing his girlfriend with a loaded gun during a cocaine-induced rage. Date convicted: April 13, 1999 | 3 1/2 years in prison (stayed), 6 months in county jail and 4 years probation | |
| Lenhart, Richard Scott | Psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Inappropriate sexual relationships and fraudulently billing. Lenhart was arrested in 2014 for using his services to sexually assault two female patients. Lenhart prescribed "touching therapy" for the women. Lenhart was also charged with two counts of theft by deception and two counts of insurance fraud for submitting insurance claims for his treatment. He was described by the board as "a threat to current and future patients, and... not capable of practicing." Date convicted: February 4, 2016 | 3-6 years in state prison; ordered to pay more than $71,000 in restitution; labeled as a "sexual predator." | |
| Lenhart, Richard Scott | Psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| He sexually assault two female patients and created damaging and unhealthy dependencies in them. Date convicted: April 26, 2013 | License revoked. Ordered to pay $18,433 as cost of investigations and a civil penalty of $50,000. | |
| LENT, LAWRENCE | counselor | U.S. Missouri |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: July 28, 1999 | 5 years probation and ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution to the state of Missouri | |
| LEODONES, JEFFREY | psychiatric nurse | U.S. California |
| Sexually assaulting a female patient. Date convicted: August 16, 2000 | 6 years in prison | |
| Leon Morton, Green | psychiatrist | U.S. Delaware |
| Patient alleged that Green told her he loved her, made sexual comments to her and fondled her. Date convicted: June 8, 2004 | License was initially suspended pending a hearing but was ultimately revoked. | |
| LEPRINCE, CHARLES E | school psychologist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Making sexual advances to a student. Date convicted: March 2, 1990 | 3 years probation | |
| LeRoux, Jeffrey | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: December 2004 | License surrendered. In October 2005, LeRoux was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Lesnik, Susan | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Gross negligence (engaged in multiple relations with patient). Date convicted: December 2004 | License surrendered, deemed revocation. | |
| LESTER, JOHN BUCKLES | child psychiatrist | U.S. Kansas |
| Sexually molesting two sexually abused teenage boys at Community Psychiatric Clinic's College Meadows Hospital, where he worked. Date convicted: June 5, 1997 | 41 months in prison after losing an appeal on his 1994 conviction | |
| Levine, Laurence E. | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| 5-count conviction on illegal possession of a controlled substance. Date convicted: March 12, 1999 | 3 months in jail. Levine had his medical license revoked in December 2002. | |
| Lewek, William T. | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Convicted on Feb 20, 2015 for tampering with physical evidence. A 32-year-old man died in October 2013 at Lewek's house. Lewek dragged the body outside and buried it in his backyard, keeping it hidden for nearly three months while police, family and friends looked for it. The county Medical Examiner's Office was never able to ascertain what killed Straton. Lewek claimed the death was from a drug overdose. Lewek was also accused of possessing crack cocaine and for driving while his ability was impaired. Date convicted: May 1, 2015 | 4 years in prison for the tampering; 3 years probation for the driving charge. | |
| Lewek, William T. | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Professional misconduct, based on his February 20, 2016 felony guilty plea in the body-burying tampering case and the misdemeanor driving charge. Lewek had temporarily surrendered his medical license on May 14, 2014. Date convicted: December 13, 2016 | License revoked by medical board in New York. | |
| LEWIS, ANDREW H | social worker | U.S. California |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 15, 1998 | 120 days in jail, 3 years probation and ordered to pay $56,000 in restitution | |
| LEWIS, JOHN W | psychiatric technician | U.S. Tennessee |
| Sexual battery of a patient. Date convicted: July 18, 1997 | 4 years probation | |
| LEWIS, RICKIE | psychology employee | U.S. Georgia |
| Conspiracy to defraud Medicaid insurance of over $500,000 along with psychologist Edwin P. Hall. Date convicted: August 1, 1998 | 10 years in jail (8 suspended), fined $10,000 and ordered to pay restitution of $209,000 | |
| Liang, Raymond Ambrose | psychiatrist | Canada Vancouver |
| Income tax evasion. Date convicted: November 25, 2010 | Fined $85,464. | |
| LICHTENSTEIN, DON | psychologist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Having sex with a patient Date convicted: Circa 1991 | 3 years in prison (suspended), 5 years probation, ordered to perform 300 hours of community service work and ordered to therapy | |
| LICHTMAN, CARL | psychologist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Defrauding health insurance programs out of more than $3 million. Date convicted: May 1, 1997 | 5 1/2 years in prison | |
| LIDDELL, PAUL | counselor and social worker | New Zealand Auckland |
| Sexual offenses against at least 7 boys. Date convicted: 1994 | 10 years in prison | |
| LIEBER, ROBERT | therapist | U.S. Hawaii |
| Sexual assault of a 16-year-old male client. Date convicted: January 23, 2001 | 9 months jail and 5 years probation. | |
| Lievanos, Augustus | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| He used alcohol in a manner or to an extent as to be dangerous to himself, another person, or the public; and he was convicted of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions or duties of a psychologist. Specifically, he was arrested for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol with a blood alcohol content of 0.234% on March 1, 2015. In August 2015, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors related to this incident. Date convicted: January 17, 2017 | License Surrendered | |
| LINDSETH, PAUL A | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Paying 2 men to lie to police about a former patient in retaliation for her accusation against him for professional misconduct. Date convicted: May 19, 1995 | 200 hours of community service | |
| LISLE, JAMES | therapist | U.S. California |
| Sexual assault of a female patient, who subsequently became pregnant. Date convicted: Circa 1994 | 1 year in jail | |
| LIU, PUNG S | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Defrauding several health insurance programs. Date convicted: February 1, 1991 | 2 consecutive 5 year jail terms, and ordered to pay $822,703 in fines and restitution | |
| Loche, Susan Louise | Psychiatrist | Canada Ontario |
| She pleaded no contest to allegations of professional misconduct and agreed to voluntarily surrender her license. She hired one patient as a private nurse and took advantage of others by having them pick up her eye medication and groceries. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario called her behavior �self-serving, selfish, disgraceful and unprofessional." Date convicted: April 13, 2017 | License Surrendered | |
| Loftin, Sandra | psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| Driving while ability impaired Date convicted: May 23, 2011 | Unknown | |
| LOFTON, BARBARA | mental health executive | U.S. Alabama |
| Defrauding Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs and falsifying her credentials. Date convicted: August 30, 1999 | 4 years in prison and ordered to pay $312,000 in costs and restitution | |
| LOHN, BARBARA C | psychiatrist in training | U.S. New Hampshire |
| Illegal use of a computer to gain access to an acquaintance's medical records without permission. Date convicted: April 30, 1999 | Fined $1,000 | |
| Longenecker, Daniel | psychotherapist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Sexual abuse of patient. Date convicted: February 2004 | Nursing license suspended. | |
| LONGMUIR, DEREK | psychiatric nurse | Scotland Edinburgh |
| Downloading child pornography from the Internet. Date convicted: March 24, 2000 | 300 hours community service | |
| Loomis, Scott | mental health practitioner | U.S. Nebraska |
| Alcohol dependence, driving while drunk and dishonorable conduct. Date convicted: December 2003 | License revoked. | |
| LORING, W. BRUCE | alcohol and substance abuse clinic owner | U.S. New York |
| His role in Recovery Counseling Associates substance abuse clinic, which defrauded Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: December 1, 1997 | 6 months in jail and ordered to pay restitution | |
| LOTHRINGER, HARVEY | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Killing a female patient during an illegal abortion. After Lothringer served his sentence he went on to become a prison psychiatrist. Date convicted: May, 1994 | 2 to 8 years in jail | |
| LOWINGER, PAUL | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sex with patients, insurance fraud, and prescribing drugs illegally. Date convicted: 1992 | 8 months in jail and ordered to pay $15,000 in fines | |
| Lowinger, Paul | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Felony grand theft, filing false claims, issuing controlled substances without a medical purpose and sex with patients. Date convicted: July 1994 | Surrendered license; deemed a revocation. | |
| Lowright, Margaret | counseling service owner and director | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: March 28, 2005 | 2 years probation, $2,000 fines and $29,502 restitution. Lowright was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in August 2005. | |
| Luban, Arthur | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Felony fraud conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Lucchetti, Frank | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Illegally dispensed or prescribed prescription drugs to two patients. Lucchetti gave samples of antidepressants and sedatives to a patient in 2000 and altered a doctor's prescription for another patient in 2002 by changing the prescription to a greater quantity of different antidepressant. The patients brought this to the attention of their physicians, who reported Lucchetti to the Board of Psychology.
, Date convicted: May 14, 2004 | License revoked and ordered to pay $48,541.45 for the California Psychology Board's costs in investigating and prosecuting the case. On March 16, 2005, the Board issued an order setting aside the revocation and order to pay costs. | |
| LUCCI, JERRY M | drug rehab executive | U.S. New York |
| Defrauding Medicaid health insurance at Aurora Concepts, Inc. drug rehab center in Queens, NY. Date convicted: May 23, 2000 | 5 years probation | |
| LUCCI, SANDRA | drug rehab executive | U.S. New York |
| Defrauding Medicaid health insurance at Aurora Concepts, Inc. drug rehab center in Queens, NY. Date convicted: May 23, 2000 | 5 years probation | |
| LUDWIGSEN, CLARENCE W | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Molesting a 10-year-old girl. Date convicted: January 6, 1995 | 6 years prison and 24 years probation | |
| LUNZER, RICHARD G | psychiatrist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Sexually molesting a high school boy. Date convicted: June 1, 1996 | 3 years probation with conditions | |
| Luther, Brenda | psychiatric nurse | U.S. Michigan |
| Misdemeanor criminal sexual conduct (sexually assaulted a mentally ill patient). Date convicted: July 19, 2005 | 12 to 24 months prison. | |
| LYNN, LAWRENCE A, III | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Performing homosexual acts in a restroom. Date convicted: 1992 | 1 year in jail | |
| Lyons, Lawrence G. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Fraudulently billed the California State Medicaid program in excess of $2 million (i.e., "billed for 24,635 hours of time-sensitive psychological services when, in fact, there were only 9,216 hours available during that 384 day period," etc.) Date convicted: December 7, 2004 | 2 years prison Restitution of more than $1.7 million. | |
| Lyons, James N. | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| The Iowa Medical Board put Lyons' license on probation in 1978 due to Lyons' alcoholism. The Board revoked it in 1981 and reinstated it in 1983. In 1984, Lyons violated the conditions of the reinstatement by consuming alcohol. Date convicted: May 11, 1984 | Surrendered license (deemed revocation). | |
| Maccabee, Neta | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| "...habitual user of controlled substances" and "failed to provide appropriate care and treatment to a patient in that she committed boundary violations with...the patient," according to documents issued by the New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct. Date convicted: May 31, 2005 | License suspended for 12 months. In September 2005, Maccabee was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| MACDOUGAL, PATRICK | reform-school counselor | Canada Bridgewater |
| Sexually abusing boys in his care. Date convicted: March 29, 1993 | 6 years in prison | |
| Machos, Thomas | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| Unprofessional conduct; ineligibility, due to registration as a sex offender. Based on court convictions in 2015 and 2016 for multiple counts of indecent exposure, public masturbation, vandalism of neighbor's car & threatening to kill neighbor, whereby he was sentenced to jail time, restitution and requirement to register as a sex offender. Date convicted: September 9, 2016 | License was revoked. Ordered to pay $26.242 to reimburse the Board for its costs. | |
| MADEN, GORDON | psychiatrist. | U.K. Lancashire |
| Sex attacks on his teenage patients. Date convicted: February 12, 1993 | 3 years in jail | |
| MAGNUSON, KRISTINA | social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| First- and second-degree sexual assault of a child (accused of having sex with the father of her children, whom she baby-sat, beginning when he was 9, as well as with three other teens she met while working at a group home). Date convicted: January 14, 2002 | 40 years prison, 40 years probation, sex offender treatment and no contact with children younger than 18. | |
| Mahl, Michael | Psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| Relapsed with alcohol and methamphetamine use, which violated the conditions and restrictions put on his license as a result of his discipline history for chemical dependency. His discipline history also includes practice restrictions for sexual molestation of young boys, dating back to 1998. Date convicted: August 5, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| MAIETTA, FRANK | psychologist. | U.S. New Jersey |
| Sexually molesting young girls. Date convicted: July 16, 1999 | 4 years in a facility for sex offenders | |
| Maish, James | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| 8-year sexual affair with patient. Date convicted: December 2004 | License suspended indefinitely. License was reinstated March 18, 2008. In September 2005, Maish was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| MAKOWSKI, JOHN | counselor. | Canada Vancouver |
| Trying to obtain sex from a teenage prostitute. Date convicted: July 9, 1997 | 1 month in jail | |
| Mangum, Paul D. | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Medicaid fraud of $550,000. Date convicted: January 28, 2010 | 2 years prison. | |
| Manley, Steven | psychologist | UK |
| Engaged in sex with a patient. Date convicted: October 19, 2005 | Struck off medical register for life (same as permanent revocation). | |
| Marcano, Carlos Albert | psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| One count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct (felony) and one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct (misdemeanor) involving a young relative. Date convicted: August 12, 2008 | Minimum period 8 years and 1 year, respectively, to be served concurrently with credit for 13 days already served. | |
| Marek, Alina | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Driving while intoxicated. Date convicted: June 30, 2008 | Unknown | |
| MARKS, STEPHEN T. | counselor w/doctorate in psychology | U.S. California |
| unlawful sexual intercource (had sex with a 17-year-old girl he met while advising in a school domestic violence education program). Date convicted: November 14, 2003 | 4 months county jail, 5 years probation and 100 hours community service. | |
| Marsh, Julie | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Consumed alcohol, Xanax and marijuana and then drove her vehicle. She was charged with DUI, which was reduced to endangerment and criminal damage. Date convicted: Circa 2008 | 30 days incarceration, conditional work release and 3 years unsupervised probation and restitution. | |
| MARTIN, KAREN | substance abuse center employee. | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 1999 | 3 years probation | |
| MARTIN, CHRISTOPHER | counselor | U.S. Iowa |
| First degree murder (convicted of beating his 3-year-old son to death). Date convicted: September 18, 2002 | Life in prison without a chance of parole. | |
| Martin, Ian Anthony | Psychiatrist | Australia, Tasmania |
| Attempting to prevent a former patient from pursuing a complaint against him. (Martin engaged in a three-year sexual relationship with a former patient. When she complained to the Medical Complaints Tribunal, he attempted to dissuade her by hiring another ex-patient to intimidate her.) Date convicted: February 21, 2008 | 18 months prison (must serve at least ten months before being considered for parole). Martin's license was revoked August 29, 2005. | |
| Martin, Bennie | counselor | U.S. New Jersey |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: August 19, 2004 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care program (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| MARTINEZ, ARTHUR M. | therapist. | U.S. California |
| Unlawful sexual intercourse and oral copulation with a patient. Date convicted: October 24, 1990 | 1 year in jail (suspended), 250 hours of community service and fined $1,000 | |
| MARTINEZ, MELCHOR | psychotherapist. | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Medicaid insurance fraud and tampering with public records. Date convicted: January 12, 2000 | 5 to 23 months in jail, 37 months probation and ordered to pay $250,000 in fines and restitution | |
| MARTINEZ, ROBERT | mental health employee. | U.S. Kansas |
| Paying bribes to get psychiatric patients sent to the psychiatric hospital where he worked. Date convicted: December 12, 1994 | 30 months in prison, 2 years supervised release and ordered to pay $6,892 in fines and costs | |
| Martinez, Eliezer | mental health counseling center owner | U.S. New Jersey |
| Defrauded the Medicaid insurance program for $137,900 for counseling services that were never delivered. Date convicted: January 21, 2005 | Five years state prison and ordered to pay $275,900 in fines and $137,900 restitution. | |
| MATHESON, GEORGE | psychologist. | Canada Toronto |
| Sexually abusing two women. Date convicted: March 12, 1997 | 2 years in jail | |
| Matthews, Mark Alan | counselor | U.S. Michigan |
| Possession of child sexually abusive material. Date convicted: April 18, 2006 | 5 years probation, ordered to register as a sex offender and ordered to pay $2,280 in court costs and fees. | |
| MATTSON, ROGER A. | psychiatrist. | U.S. Minnesota |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: 1992 | 1 year in jail, 10 years probation and ordered to pay $63,749 in restitution | |
| Mavroidis, Michael L. | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Illegally prescribing drugs (tranquilizers, narcotic painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs) to active substance abusers. Date convicted: October 24, 2007 | 1 year prison and $10,000 fine followed by 10 years probation during which he may not practice medicine anywhere. | |
| MAY, GREGORY | psychologist. | U.S. Washington |
| Defrauding health insurance programs. Date convicted: April 23, 1996 | 6 months in jail and fined $5,000 | |
| MAYBERRY, M. VICTORIA | mental health executive. | U.S. Michigan |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: March 18, 1998 | 36 months probation and ordered to pay restitution, fines and costs of $86,600 | |
| MAYER, JAN A. | psychiatrist. | U.S. Tennessee |
| Billing several government and private insurance agencies for services not personally provided. Date convicted: November 17, 2000 | 36 months in prison, 3 years supervised probation and ordered to pay $398,833 in restitution | |
| Mayer, David | clinical social worker | U.S. Illinois |
| Conducting traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of illicit sex. (Mayer, a member of an organization that seeks to legalize sex between men and boys, was arrested in an FBI sting for planning to travel to Mexico to molest boys. FBI evidence gathered during their investigation included a recording of Mayer boasting of the numerous times he had traveled to third-world countries to engage in sex with boys.) Date convicted: August 11, 2006 | 37 months prison and 12 years supervision and ordered to register as a sex offender. | |
| MAYNARD, PATRICIA | psychiatrist. | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance and tax evasion. Date convicted: September 9, 1998 | 5 years in jail, 10 years probation and ordered to pay $193,432 in restitution | |
| Mazcuri, Riaz | Psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud. Sentencing is scheduled for October 10, 2017. Mazcuri and others engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting approximately $158 million in false and fraudulent claims through Riverside General Hospital. Date convicted: May 23, 2017 | Convicted (sentencing scheduled for October 10, 2017) | |
| Mbonu, Godfrey | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Second-degree grand larceny (Medicaid fraud, $214,000). Date convicted: April 28, 2010 | 1 year prison and $214,000 restitution to the Medicaid program. | |
| Mc Quade, Hugh T. | Psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| The psychology board cited two cases of sexual misconduct. He later faced criminal charges for 14 felony charges for allegedly convincing a patient to perform sex acts during therapy. Other patients, including women who were ordered to see him by area courts, said they were forced to perform sex acts during treatment. One women being treated by Mc Quade for drug addiction said he provided her with cocaine in exchange for sexual favors. Mc Quade pled guilty to sexually assaulting four patients. Date convicted: February 5, 2016 | A year in jail, and his medical license was revoked. | |
| McAley, Susan | counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Unlawful acquisition of controlled substance. On October 27, 2010 she was convicted of theft of prescription pad.
Date convicted: August 16, 2010 | 24 months probation | |
| MCBRIDE, BREAVESS | prison counselor | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Sexual abuse of female prisoners. Date convicted: July 25, 2000 | 12 years and 2 months in jail and 3 years supervised release | |
| McBride, Heidi | counselor | U.S. Idaho |
| Conspiring to defraud the government (McBride was originally indicted by a federal grand jury on 25 counts of Medicaid fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the government). Date convicted: October 18, 2004 | Six months house arrest; five years probation and ordered to pay restitution of $128,655.34. In March 2005, McBride was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| MCBURNIE, SCOTT | mental health crisis assessment team manager | Australia Melbourne |
| 59 charges of obtaining property by deception (used more than $35,000 of government funds meant for psychiatric patients to benefit himself and others). Date convicted: March 21, 2003 | 18 months jail, suspended for two years and ordered to pay restitution of $18,760. | |
| McCall, David | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Driving while intoxicated. Date convicted: 2009 | Six months prison. | |
| McCarter, Jeffrey Scott | mental health technician | U.S. Alabama |
| Raped a 15-year-old patient Date convicted: September 21, 2011 | 30 years prison | |
| MCCLELLAND, SCOTT R. | psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Sex with several women (two married) and one of whom was a patient. Date convicted: September 13, 2000 | 6 months in jail and dismissed from the Navy | |
| MCCLENDON, JAMES E. | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding the state Medicaid insurance program. Date convicted: November 24, 1998 | 6 1/2 years in prison and ordered to repay $6.7 million restitution | |
| McCormick, Laura Jane | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| Dishonest acts, and a 2014 conviction for three counts of welfare fraud and perjury after she underreported her monthly income in an application for California's state Children's Health Insurance Program coverage and falsified the letter purportedly executed by her employer as proof of income. Date convicted: June 3, 2016 | The criminal conviction resulted in 60 days jail time, probation, community service, and $26,407 in restitution and fees. Her Medical License was surrendered. | |
| MCCOY, GARY | counseling center employee | U.S. Georgia |
| Mail fraud and false claims to Medicaid. Date convicted: July 1998 | 18 months in jail followed by supervised release. McCoy and his co-operator were ordered to pay $949, 679 in restitution and forfeit cash and assets of approximately $450,000 | |
| MCCREA, TERRI L. | counselor | U.S. South Carolina |
| Health care fraud (billed the Medicaid insurance program for counseling sessions that never occurred and in some cases for services totalling more than 24 hours in a day). Date convicted: December 6, 2001 | 4 months in community corrections facility, 4 months house arrest and 3 years supervised release. | |
| MCCRYSTAL, FRANK | psychiatrist | Canada Kitchener |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: March 20, 1989 | 1 year in jail and ordered to pay $75,000 in fines and $100,000 in restitution | |
| MCDONALD, PAUL F. | retired counselor | U.S. New Jersey |
| Violating probation on his conviction for providing drugs, alcohol and sexually explicit materials to 3 teenage boys. McDonald failed to report to his probation officer for 5 months. Date convicted: May 5, 2000 | 330 days in county jail | |
| McDonald, Matthew Lee | Psychologist | United States Pennsylvania |
| Second-degree misdemeanor count of simple assault arising out of evidence that he touched a 10-year-old girl's buttocks with his hand. Date convicted: July 29, 2014 | To serve one to twenty-three months in the Erie County Prison. | |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES J. | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. He was convicted of similar offenses in 1990 for which he served a 60 day jail sentence and 5 years probation. Date convicted: May 1994 | 1 year in a county workhouse and fined $23,000 | |
| McDonough, Catherine J. | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Submitted false or deceptive license re-application to the Board. Date convicted: 11/18/2003 | License surrendered. | |
| MCFALL, SHAWN | nurse | U.S. Ohio |
| Raping a mentally disabled woman. Date convicted: September 14, 2000 | 2 life sentences and an additional 15 years in prison | |
| McGahee, Bernard | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Voluntarily surrendered license. Date convicted: February 14, 2005 | McGahee advised the Board of his intention to surrender his license but no reason was given. McGahee was disciplined by the Board in 1996 for engaging in "therapeutic massage" and/or "deep relaxation procedures" with two patients, in violation of professional boundaries. He also used hypnosis on both patients without adequate consent and engaged in dual relationships with one of the patients. In September 2005, McGahee was excluded from participation in federally funded health programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| MCGHEE, HAROLD L. | counselor | U.S. Tennessee |
| Defrauding the state's health insurance program for the poor. Date convicted: September 1995 | 14 months in federal prison, fined $600 and ordered to pay over $3,600 in restitution | |
| McGlynn, Charles | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Came under investigation state medical board for possible mental or physical problems that might have interfered with his work. Date convicted: April 2003 | Surrendered license. | |
| MCGRATH, MARY A. | substance abuse clinic owner | U.S. New York |
| Her part in stealing more than $76,000 from Medicaid health insurance. Date convicted: November 21, 1997 | 1 to 3 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution | |
| MCGRIFF, DAVID | counselor for drunk drivers | U.S. Miami |
| Drunk diving. Date convicted: February 4, 1998 | 20 days in jail, 1 year probation, 50 hours of community service and ordered to pay a $500 fine | |
| MCGUIGAN, KEVIN | psychiatrist | U.K. London |
| Physically and sexually assaulting his pregnant wife. Date convicted: August 1, 2000 | 15 months in jail | |
| McIntyre, Robert Karl | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Three counts of criminal sexual conduct involving teenage girls. Investigators stated that McIntyre, 58, had sexual contact with a teenage girl he was counseling. Despite the fact that the girl was old enough to consent [age of consent in Michigan is 16], state law prohibits sexual contact between doctors and patients. Date convicted: January 14, 2011 | Five years probation. On May 4, 2011, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Bureau of Health Professions revoked McIntyre's license. | |
| McKee, Susan Jane | psychiatric nurse | Ireland |
| Stole from patient's bank account. Date convicted: November 2002 | Banned from practicing. | |
| MCKELLER, DONALD | psychiatric nurse trainee | U.K. Ipswich |
| Drunk driving. Date convicted: December 1, 2000 | 6 months in jail and banned from driving for 5 years | |
| McKenna, Peter | psychiatrist | U.S. Vermont |
| Sexually abused a patient during treatment sessions. Date convicted: July 26, 2005 | 60 days work camp, $1,000 donation to center for adolescent girls (by plaintiff's request) and return of all patient's fees ($6,000). | |
| McKenna, Peter | psychiatrist | U.S. Vermont |
| Sexual abuse of a patient. Date convicted: June 2005 | License suspended indefinitely. | |
| McKeon, Patricia | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Accepted a fee to conduct an evaluation and report but never provided the report despite repeated requests. Date convicted: Jan 2005 | Fined $2,500 and placed on five years probation. | |
| McLaughlin, Ivan James | social services worker | U.S. California |
| Molesting a young boy. The Department of Social Services had assigned McLaughlin to help the boy and his parents, who are blind. Date convicted: March 17, 1995 | 7 years in prison | |
| McLean-Manning, Colin | psychiatric nurse | United Kingdom |
| Indecent assaults of 12 patients. Date convicted: September 2004 | Struck off the nursing registry (license revoked). | |
| McLelland, Martin | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Falsified medical certificates in order to continue collecting sick pay. Date convicted: March 5, 2010 | Jailed four months. | |
| McLeod, Janet | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Sex with 16-year-old patient Date convicted: July 11, 2012 | Convicted | |
| McPhail, Charles | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Sexual misconduct. Date convicted: March 2003 | 2 year suspension and $39,000 restitution. | |
| McPherson, Kenneth | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Sexual exploitation of a minor Date convicted: March 2, 2022 | Five years prison | |
| McPike, Ronald Preston | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Harrassment of a public official (he paid a parking ticket using feces-encrusted dollar bills). Date convicted: December 8, 2004 | $324 in fines and court costs. In June 13, 2005, the state of Iowa suspended McPike's professional indefinitely. | |
| MEADE, TARRA LYNNE | social worker | U.S. Florida |
| Having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Date convicted: October 20, 1999 | 2 years house arrest and 5 years probation | |
| Meadow, Herbert Morton | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Convicted on November 5, 2015 for Attempted Enterprise Corruption and for Health Care Fraud. He was among nine doctors and 14 other defendants who recruited New York City's low-income and homeless population to corrupt medical clinics with the offer of free sneakers in an effort to scam Medicare and Medicaid out of $6.9 million. Meadow charged inflated fees for abbreviated patient visits and referred patients for unnecessary medical tests and treatment. Date convicted: July 27, 2016 | Sentenced to a conditional discharge (conditions, but no imprisonment) of 3 years on each of the two convictions, and a surcharge of $300. | |
| Meadow, Herbert Morton | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Based on November 5, 2015 felony convictions for healthcare and Medicaid fraud.
Date convicted: November 20, 2016 | License was surrendered. | |
| Meagher, Joseph | psychiatrist | Canada British Columbia |
| Sexual misconduct. Date convicted: 1997 | License revoked. | |
| Mehlman, Susan Carol | psychologist | U.S. Maryland |
| Medicaid insurance fraud (repeatedly submitted claims for up to thirteen 45-50 minute treatment sessions though the facility where she worked was only open six hours a day). Date convicted: March 23, 2007 | 5 years prison, all suspended but 6 months, to be served on home detention and 2 years probation. She also paid $96,750 in restitution & penalties to Medicaid. | |
| Melcher, Stephen | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Commission of a lewd and lascivious act upon a child Date convicted: May 25, 2012 | 1 year jail, must register as a sex offender | |
| Menaster, Michael John | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Weapons possession (including carrying a loaded .40 caliber semi-automatic weapon in his pants pocket. Other weapons, including a loaded AK-47 rifle, as well as numerous packages of psychotropic drugs, including the antidepressants Prozac and Zoloft, were found in his possession). Date convicted: 1999 | 5 years probation. | |
| Mendelson, Robert | psychologist | U.S. West Virginia |
| Sexual misconduct. Date convicted: April 15, 1991 | License suspended for 2 years. | |
| Mendez-Villamil, Fernando | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security fraud schemes. On May 11, 2016, Villamil pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health and wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., and more. The scheme caused U.S. government organizations to suffer a combined loss of more than $62.8 million. Villamil made fraudulent diagnoses of "debilitating psychiatric conditions" so that beneficiaries could obtain benefits. He also provided false diagnoses in exchange for bribes and kickback payments. Date convicted: July 25, 2016 | 12 years in prison and more than $50 million in restitution. | |
| Mendez-Villamil, Fernando | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| May 11, 2016 health care fraud and wire fraud criminal convictions. Date convicted: February 22, 2017 | License was surrendered. | |
| MENEZ, CESAR | psychiatrist | U.S. Missouri |
| Fraudulent health insurance billing. Date convicted: June 18, 1990 | 2 years probation and ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution | |
| MERCER, JIM | psychologist | U.S. California |
| The sexual assault of 2 boys including a foster son. Date convicted: January 13, 1994 | 5 years in jail | |
| Mercer, Gwendolyn | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Used her Florida DEA Registration to prescribe medication to resident in Florida while residing in Georgia.
Date convicted: February 16, 2016 | Voluntary Relinquishment (Surrendered). | |
| MEREDITH, ELISA B. | substance abuse clinic owner | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud scheme at Recovery Counseling Associates. Date convicted: December 1, 1997 | 6 months in jail and ordered to pay her part of more than $76,000 in restitution | |
| Metzger, Carl D. | psychiatrist | U.S. Maine |
| Repeatedly violated a patient's confidentiality, ignored the patient's desire to end treatment and failed to accomplish any meaningful goals over a decade, while fostering unhealthy dependence on the patient and patient's mother. Date convicted: December 2004 | License revoked. In October 2005, Metzger was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Meyer, Amy B. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs and criminal possession of a controlled substance. Date convicted: June 17, 2009 | Convicted; sentence pending. | |
| Mies, Peter | child psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Possessing a sexual performance by a child (downloaded child pornography at the preschool where he worked). Date convicted: November 28, 2005 | 10 years probation, must surrender license and also register as a sex offender. | |
| Mikolajczyk, Stacy A. | counselor | U.S. Connecticut |
| Sexual relationship with a 15-year-old resident of the facility where she worked. Date convicted: October 28, 2005 | 6 months jail. | |
| MILLER, DAVID W. | psychiatric nurse | U.S. New York |
| Attempted first-degree sodomy of a patient at Rochester Psychiatric Center, where he worked. Date convicted: September 2000 | Jailed while awaiting final sentencing | |
| MILLER, JAMES D. | psychologist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| First-degree sexual assault of a child and sexual exploitation by a therapist (sexually molested two patients, one of whom was a 4-year-old). Date convicted: July 3, 2002 | 3 years prison (original July 2000 sentence upheld by the Wisconsin 2nd District Court of Appeals). | |
| MILLER, LARRY FLOYD | retired mental hospital administrator | U.S. Alabama |
| Receiving child pornography. Date convicted: August 9, 2002 | 27 months prison | |
| MILLIGAN, FRANK J. | mental health employee | U.S. Oregon |
| Sexual assault of a young boy. As of September 20, 2000 he was up on charges in a separate case for sexual abuse, kidnapping and attempted murder of another young boy. Date convicted: August 2000 | 75 months in prison | |
| Milligan, Ian | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Download child pronography Date convicted: April 4, 2012 | 2 years probation, sex offender registry | |
| MILLSOPP, ANTHONY | counselor | U.K. Coventry |
| Indecently assaulting a female patient. Date convicted: September 23, 1999 | 9 months in jail for and ordered to register as a sex offender after his release. | |
| MIMLESS, LORIN H. | psychiatrist | U.S. Rhode Island |
| Defrauding Medicaid insurance. Date convicted: July 18, 1997 | 1 year in jail, 5 years probation and ordered to pay $165,000 in restitution | |
| Miran, Michael | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Offering a false instrument for filing (Medicaid-Medicare fraud of $250,000). Date convicted: July 29, 2010 | 3 years probation and restitution of $250,000. | |
| Mishina, Valentina | psychiatric institute director | CIS Moscow, Russia |
| Used official position to commit fraud (through deception, she and a colleague acquired possession of two psychiatric patients' apartments, which they then sold for approximately US $30,000 each). Date convicted: May 8, 2008 | 10 years prison. | |
| MITCHELL, JOHN G. | counselor | U.S. California |
| Raping a 16-year-old girl, who was his ward. Date convicted: February 28, 1991 | Nearly 7 years in prison | |
| MITCHELL, JOHN C. | counselor | U.S. Alabama |
| Sexual exploitation of children and possessing and receiving child pornography (used teenage residents of the group home where he worked to make pornography). Date convicted: October 23, 2002 | 17 years in prison. | |
| Mitchell, Walter A. | psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: February 2004 | License surrendered. | |
| Mitrione, Robert | psychiatrist & psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Mail fraud and filing false claims to the state Department of Public Aid and other health care plans.
Date convicted: October 31, 2002 | 23 months federal prison. In September 2003, Mitrione was excluded from participation in federally-funded health programs (Medicaid, etc.) In July 2005, his licenses were suspended indefinitely. | |
| MIZE, JOHN W. | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Making more than $4,600 worth of telephone calls to phone sex lines, while at work. Date convicted: July 1, 1994 | 18 months in jail ( suspended except for 60 days in jail), 3 years probation and fined $1,000 | |
| Mizes, James S. | Psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Harassment and disorderly conduct, from an incident where he had a stun gun and tried to give a woman an engagement ring and a wedding band along with movies. Date convicted: February 29, 2016 | 15 months' probation, fines and court costs. | |
| Mizes, James S. | Psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| The Board considered evidence and determined that Mizes' continued practice would constitute an immediate danger to the public. Criminal charges in Pennsylvania and inappropriate behavior on Facebook were factors in the decision.
Date convicted: March 11, 2016 | Suspended and allowed to expire. | |
| Mohabbat, Mohammad Omar | Psychiatrist | U.S. Alabama |
| Mohammad Omar Mohabbat was charged with second-degree sexual abuse and harassment in 2013. Prosecutors dismissed the sexual abuse charge and accepted a guilty plea to the harassment charge. Date convicted: October 5, 2015 | One year of unsupervised probation. | |
| Mohabbat, Mohammad Omar | Psychiatrist | U.S. Alabama |
| Sexual Misconduct; being unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety. Date convicted: June 6, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| Monacelli, John R. | mental health counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Abuse and neglect of patients and residents (Monacelli admitted to having 'a relationship' with a woman while counseling her. The original complaint against him alleged he had two clients recount childhood sexual abuse in great detail and said re-enacting the sexual acts would help them overcome drug addictions. It was also alleged that he forced both clients to perform sex acts and threatened them to keep them quiet. Date convicted: November 18, 2009 | Two years probation. | |
| MONSEY, BARBARA K. | psychologist and psychology testing center owner | U.S. California |
| Her part in a group that defrauded insurance companies and employers out of millions of dollars through billing for bogus psychological reports. Date convicted: March 2, 1998 | 27 months in jail and ordered to pay a fine of $100,000 | |
| MONSEY, JEROME M. | psychology testing center manager | U.S. California |
| His role in American Psychometric Consultants, along with his psychologist wife, Barbara K. Monsey, which defrauded insurance companies and employers out of millions of dollars through billing for bogus psychological reports. Date convicted: October 14, 1998 | 27 months in jail and fined $25,000 | |
| MOORE, RENEE JOY | Counselor | U.S. Virginia |
| Moore, a 42-year-old counselor, was convicted of having sex with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor (a teenage male client). Date convicted: October 2, 2002 | Two 12-month and one 6-month prison sentence and $10,000 in fines. | |
| Moore, Tracie Louise | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Driving under the influence of alcohol (this was a second offense; Moore was convicted of similar charges in February 2004 and sentenced to 5 days in jail). Date convicted: October 20, 2004 | 60 days jail | |
| Moore, Peter | psychiatrist | Canada Toronto, Ontario |
| Sexual improprieties with two male patients. Date convicted: July 2003 | License revoked; prohibited from reapplying. | |
| Moore, Shelly J. | Psychologist | U.S. Kansas |
| In February 2017, Shelly Moore, a former school psychologist, was found guilty of felony counts of possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) with intent to distribute, conspiracy to distribute and no drug tax stamp and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia for a marijuana pipe in the car. Date convicted: April 25, 2017 | Three years of Community Corrections-supervised probation and ordered to pay $1,273 in fees and costs, perform 40 hours of community service and be evaluated for drug and alcohol addiction | |
| MORALES, EMMAR D. (AKA EMMAR D. MORALES ZAMBRANA) | unlicensed psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Medicaid and other health care insurance fraud, forgery and practicing psychology without a license. Date convicted: May 7, 2002 | 1 year house arrest, 5 years probation, restitution of $50,000 and 200 hours community service. | |
| MORALES, CRISTINO | mental health clinic executive director | U.S. New Jersey |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 1, 2004 | 3 years state prison and ordered to pay $10,000 restitution to the Medicaid insurance program. | |
| Morgan, John Ann | Mental health counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Perjury. (Morgan presented false testimony on matters relating to a fraud investigation of her place of employment and its owner.) Date convicted: February 1, 2008 | 1 year deferred adjudication, $2000 fine and 100 hours community service. | |
| Morgan, Charles D. | psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Two counts of sexual exploitation by a therapist. Date convicted: March 19, 2009 | 6 years probation, 9 months county jail and 200 hours community service. | |
| Morgan, Roger | psychologist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Made materially false statements to the FBI in their investigation of a politician who was taking bribes. Date convicted: June 21, 2010 | $5,000 fine | |
| Morganstern, Ira | psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Date convicted: September 9, 2008 | Sentence pending | |
| Morguelan, Fred Neal | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| His license had been on 5-years' probation for irregularities in his billing practice and for his claiming to have administered a certain testing protocol to a patient when he hadn't.
Date convicted: November 21, 2016 | Licensed was surrendered. | |
| MORIARTY, DANIEL | psychology professor | U.S. California |
| Making death threats against his ex-wife. Date convicted: May 9, 1997 | 1 year in jail with credit for time served, and 3 years probation | |
| Morrant, James Christopher Anscombe | psychiatrist | Canada Vancouver, BC |
| Infamous conduct (sexual intercourse with female patient). Date convicted: 1998 | License suspended for 18 months. Morrant's license was reinstated in 2006 but he was fined $1,000 and reprimanded in April 2008 for breaching the conditions of his reinstatement, which included limiting his psychotherapy practice to short-term interventional therapy and a maximum of 12 sessions per patient. He also violated the condition that he see patients only when other staff are present in the clinic, and that he not initiate contact with former patients out of the office. | |
| Morrell, Julian | child psychiatrist | England London |
| Meeting a child following sexual grooming and two counts of sexual activity with a child. 42-year-old Morrell posed as a 17-year-old boy in an Internet chat room for pre-teens, exchanging many messages with a 14-year-old girl whom he subsequently met and had sex with on two occasions. Date convicted: April 1, 2005 | Four years prison. Morrell was suspended from practice for one year on April 6, 2004 for serious professional misconduct for having been found to have accessed child pornography on his home computer. | |
| MORRIS, GEOFFREY | social worker | U.K. London |
| A series of sexual assaults on 7 boys aged 8 to 15. Date convicted: May 27, 1999 | 12 years in jail | |
| Morris, Adrian | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Distributing controlled substances outside of professional practice for no legitimate medical purpose Date convicted: March 7, 2022 | Thirty-seven months prison | |
| MORRISON, MARK | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| 13 counts of sexual abuse of patients. Date convicted: March 1997 | 2 years in jail | |
| Morrison, James K. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Conspiring with a patient to collect fraudulent disability payments from the postal service (collected $13,000 in fees for non-existent appointments with a patient). Date convicted: october 5, 2004 | One year probation and $39,000 fines and penalties. | |
| Morrison, Allan | counselor | U.S. Montana |
| Sexually assaulted a 12-year-old male patient and engaging in promotion of prostitution of a 13-year-old boy (not a patient). Date convicted: February 28, 2007 | 10 years prison for the sexual assault plus a 5-year suspended sentence on the promotion of prostitution charge. | |
| Morrison, Kerry | counselor | U.S. Maryland |
| Felony theft Date convicted: July 2, 2010 | 2 years community supervision | |
| Motum, Roderick Doyle | psychiatrist | Australia Sydney |
| Malicious wounding contrary firing a firearm in a manner likely to injure a person. Motum shot and injured a young male prostitute during an argument and threatened a witness to the crime. Date convicted: August 2000 | At least 18 months periodic detention. | |
| MOYNIHAN, SIMON | drug counselor | U.K. Hull |
| Dealing marijuana. Date convicted: July 12, 1994 | 2 1/2 years in jail | |
| Mucha, Lynn (aka Lynn Linda Scott) | psychologist | U.S. Indiana |
| 1) Operating a vehicle while intoxicated and 2) Operating a vehicle while intoxicated in a manner that endangers a person. Date convicted: 1) November 17, 2006 | 1) 365 days jail with all but 10 days suspended; court costs of $360.50 and suspension of drivers license for 90 days and 2) 1 year prison, suspended, 1 year supervised probation; court costs and fees of $460.50 and drivers license suspended for 90 days. | |
| Mueller, Rita | psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Disorderly conduct (unhappy with the way a teacher had treated her daughter, she engaged on a two-year letter-writing "terror" campaign which included sending one person a box of feces). Date convicted: September 18, 2009 | 2 1/2 years prison. | |
| MUGLISTON, LEE | psychiatric nurse trainee | UK Cardiff, Wales |
| Wounding with intent and cruelty to a child (threw a four-year-old boy into a door and threatened a six-year-old with a knife). Date convicted: January, 2002 | Jailed 2 years. | |
| Muhammad, Malik | psychologist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: February 1, 2022 | 52 months prison | |
| Muir, Keith M. | psychiatrist | British Columbia, Australia, New York, New Jersey |
| Failed to inform the Queensland (Australia) Medical Board that he'd had his medical licenses revoked in New Jersey (November 1993) and New York 9January 1995) based (according to documents issued by the New York State Board for Profession Medical Conduct) on evidence that he'd "maintained sexual relationships with two patients while he continued the therapeutic treatment relationship" while practicing in New Jersey and that he "utterly failed to maintain appropriate records for both patients." Date convicted: June 2005 | License suspended for 6 months. | |
| Mukhin, Dmitry | psychiatrist | CIS Moscow, Russia |
| Had his neighbors illegally committed to a psychiatric hospital by use of false documents. Date convicted: August 15, 2007 | 2 years probation. | |
| MUKWENDI, PAUL | psychiatric nurse trainee | UK Birmingham, England |
| Possessing an imitation firearm with intent (terrorized two fellow motorists with a gun-shaped cigarette lighter). Date convicted: May 6, 2002 | 12 months jail. | |
| Mullenix, Marjorie | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Sexual assault of a child (a 16-year-old female she counseled). Date convicted: July 31, 2003 | 6 years deferred adjudication, 6 years probation and must register for life as a sex offender. ("Deferred adjudication" is a plea bargain agreement that if the probation period is completed without any violations, the conviction is dismissed.) | |
| Muller, David John | Psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| Muller was charged with having prescribed numerous controlled substances opioids, hypnotics and benzodiazepines for a psychiatric patient without appropriate initial or on-going evaluations. Date convicted: October 13, 2016 | Permanent relinquishment of license. | |
| Munson, Michelle L. | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Professional license suspended or revoked. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| MUNSTERMAN, STEPHANIE | mental health case manager | U.S. Kansas |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: October 5, 2000 | 7 months probation and ordered to pay $6,125 in restitution | |
| MURPHY, JOHN ROBERT | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Billing Medi-Cal insurance for patient visits he never made. Date convicted: July 12, 1991 | 220 days in jail, 5 years probation and ordered to pay back $11,607 | |
| MURPHY, PATRICK | psychiatric nurse | UK Ireland |
| Sexual assaults on children & using a child for sexual exploitation (videotaped his sexual assaults); possession of child pornography. Date convicted: November 19, 2002 | Jailed for 6 years. | |
| Myers, Jean | mental health technician | U.S. California |
| Loss of state license. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Nagareddy, Narendra | Psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| He was indicted by a grand jury in May of 2016 for three counts of felony murder and 59 counts of unauthorized distribution of a controlled substance, which allegedly resulted in his clients' deaths. He could face additional murder charges as 36 of his patients have died after he prescribed them controlled substances. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.
Date convicted: February 5, 2016 | License is Suspended until resolution of pending criminal charges. | |
| Nagesh, B.P. | psychologist | India Hyderabad |
| Sexual harassment (sex chatting via text with female students) Date convicted: September 3, 2022 | 16 days in jail | |
| NANCY, MILLER | Psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Cocaine trafficking. Date convicted: June 18, 2001 | 1 year in prison | |
| Natale, Michael | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Failure to complete required continuing education. Date convicted: January 2003 | License surrendered. | |
| Negron, Judith | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Massive Medicare fraud scheme Date convicted: Auguest 23, 2010 | Convicted | |
| NELSON, OMAIMA | rape crisis counselor | U.K. London |
| Beating her husband to death and then eating him. Date convicted: March 15, 1993 | Life in jail | |
| NELSON, DONALD EDWARD | drug counselor | U.S. California |
| Child molestation (molested a relative repeatedly over a 3 year period). Date convicted: May 8, 2001 | 110 years prison. | |
| Nelson, Marty W. | psychologist | U.S. Colorado |
| Careless driving causing injury (ran over a colleague in the parking lot of the correctional facility where he worked, resulting in the amputation of the man's leg below the knee). Date convicted: June 25, 2008 | 9 months jail. | |
| Nelson, Lindsay | counselor | U.S. Idaho |
| Nelson took two clients to a rap concert and billed Medicaid for counseling services for them. Date convicted: October 8, 2010 | 30 days jail. | |
| Neubauer, Christopher Carl | psychiatric hospital nurse | U.S. Oregon |
| Sexual abuse of a patient. Date convicted: Circa 2004 | 90 days jail and 5 years probation. | |
| Newmark, Thomas Steffan | Psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Newmark prescribed highly addictive narcotics to his patients without legitimate medical purpose. Date convicted: October 26, 2016 | Permanent revocation. | |
| Newstadt, Raymond | counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Felony health care fraud conviction. Date convicted: March 2005 | Criminal sentence unknown. Newstadt was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in March 2005. | |
| NEWTON, CHARLES | psychiatric orderly | U.S. Ohio |
| Sexual harassment of several employees. Date convicted: June 19, 1995 | 3 days in jail | |
| Newton, Ed | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| State license suspended or revoked. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) | |
| NGUYEN, DUC QUI | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: September 11, 1996 | 3 years probation, perform 400 hours of community service and ordered to pay $350,000 in restitution | |
| Nguyen, James An | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Medicaid insurance fraud totalling more than $1.7 million. Date convicted: June 23, 2005 | 18 months on home detention and must pay $305,000 in restitution. | |
| Nicol, Anne Francis | psychiatrist | U.S. Rhode Island |
| Irresponsible prescribing practices (two patients died of overdoses). Date convicted: November 2004 | License surrendered. | |
| NICOLOFF, ROBBIN GAIL | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Health care fraud and money laundering (submitted false claims to the Texas Medicaid insurance program). Date convicted: May 22, 2002 | 33 months federal prison and ordered to repay $586,316 to the Texas Medicaid program. | |
| NIEMAN, CARL VERNON | therapist | U.S. Texas |
| Having sex with a female patient. Date convicted: June 19, 2000 | 5 years in jail (deferred) | |
| NIKOLOV, GEORGE | therapist | U.K. London |
| Automobile fraud after he fled the country. His current whereabouts are unknown. Date convicted: March 2000 | 1 year in jail | |
| NILSON, SANDRA | psychiatrist | Canada Ottawa |
| Criminally harassing the licensing board of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ottawa. Date convicted: 9/18/2000 | 3 years probation, with credit for 6 months jail time | |
| Nino, Andres | unlicensed psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Nino admitted to never having been issued a license to practice psychology in Massachusetts but that he counseled patients at Arbour Counseling Center, in Lawrence, MA from 1992 to approximately 2011.
He further provided the Board a copy of his resume that stated that he worked at Arbour as a “staff psychologist” from 1992 to 2011 and that he had also described himself as a “clinical psychologist" on two different websites. He was also ordered to pay a $1,000 civil penalty. Date convicted: June 4, 2013 | Nino entered into a consent agreement with the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists to cease and desist using the title “psychologist” and holding himself out as being a psychologist until such time as he is licensed by the Board. | |
| NISSMAN, HARVEY L. | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: October 1993 | 3 years probation, 6 months house arrest, 750 hours of community service and fined $10,000 | |
| Noble, Randy V. | Psychologist | U.S. Missouri |
| Failure to file state tax returns or to pay state tax liabilities.
Date convicted: September 21, 2016 | Suspended. Reinstated January 24, 2017. | |
| Nordine, Gaylord | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Sentence: sexual exploitation of a patient Date convicted: June 16, 2005 | Two years probation | |
| NOVAK, DAVID | social worker | U.S. Utah |
| Sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl. Date convicted: February 16, 2000 | 1 year in jail of which he served 40 days, and 3 years probation | |
| Novgorodov, Evgeny | psychiatrist | Russia |
| Taking a bribe, forgery. Date convicted: February 2, 2010 | 3 and 1/2 year conditional sentence. | |
| NUCKOLS, CARDWELL | substance abuse treatment author-lecturer | U.S. Ohio |
| Accepting illegal payments (called "kickbacks") for referring 120 Medicare insurance-covered patients to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. Date convicted: March, 2002 | 4 months home confinement with electronic monitoring, 2 years probation and $70,000 restitution. | |
| Nunn, Michael | psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Healthcare fraud and money laundering Date convicted: April 25, 2011 | Fine and restitution of $997,215 | |
| O, Patrick | psychologist | U.S. Washington |
| Molested teenagers. Date convicted: January 15, 2004 | Relinquished license. | |
| O'Meara, Richard | licensed professional counselor | U.S. Maryland |
| Charged with engaging in a sexual and dual relationship with a married female client and failed to disclose on a state license application that he was convicted of a violent felony in 1989.
Date convicted: July 6, 2012 | Surrendered license. | |
| Obushi, Mitsuru | psychiatric nurse | Japan |
| Did not let a patient out of an isolation room during a fire; patient died. Date convicted: June 9, 2008 | 10 years prison. | |
| Ojuko, Absayo | counselor | U.S. Maryland |
| Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: March 12, 2007 | 3 years probation and repay $8,400 to the state Medicaid program. | |
| Oliver, Diane | psychotherapist | U.S. Iowa |
| Sexual exploitation by a therapist (engaged in sex with teenage male client). Date convicted: November 24, 2009 | 5 year suspended prison sentenced, 5 years probation and must register as a sex offender. | |
| OLIVEROS, JR., ALVARO A. | counselor | U.S. Illinois |
| Aggravated criminal sexual abuse (had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old female resident of the behavioral health center where he worked). Date convicted: July 29, 2002 | 6 months jail. | |
| Olmstead, William | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Indecency with a child. Date convicted: January 2009 | 6 years deferred adjudication | |
| Omland, Omar | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| License suspended July 2003 for sex with the wife of a patient; revoked for practicing on a suspended license. Date convicted: June 2004 | License revoked. | |
| ONeill-Ryan, Lisa A. | psychologist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Sex with a patient on numerous occasions both on and off the grounds of the state psychiatric hospital where she treated him. Date convicted: April 27, 2007 | 3 years probation, 250 hours of community service, permanent forfeiture of her job and prohibited from future public employment. | |
| Onen, Thomas | psychiatrist | UK |
| Prescribed "exceptionally large quantities" of controlled substances to addicts. Two such patients died due to his prescribing practices. Date convicted: 2000 | Struck off the medical register (same as license being revoked). | |
| Onovo, Chidozie Emmanuel | psychiatrist | New Zealand |
| Three counts of immigration fraud (failed to disclose his criminal history when applying for NZ visa). Date convicted: September 29, 2010 | 16 months prison. | |
| ORENS, SCOTT | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Physically assaulting his girlfriend's young daughter. Date convicted: April 1992 | 1 year probation and fined $2,000 | |
| ORKO, EDMUND | mental health nurse | U.K. Birmingham |
| Having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Date convicted: October 25, 2000 | 1 year in jail | |
| ORLOV, VLADMIR | psychiatrist | Soviet Union Latvia |
| Demanding a bribe to falsify a psychiatric evaluation of a military enlistee. Date convicted: November 27, 1998 | 3 years in jail | |
| ORPIN , JOHN (aka John Stewart) | psychotherapist | Canada Ottawa |
| Assault causing bodily harm and sexual assault on two female patients. Date convicted: February 23, 2004 | On May 29, 1998, Orpin was found guilty of the sexual assaults of four female patients. He appealed and was granted a new trial. On February 23, 2004, following the second trial, he was found guilty of assault causing bodily harm and sexual assault on two female patients. He was given a one-year conditional sentence, two years probation and was credited with 13 months pretrial custody. (Orpin was placed in pretrial custody in 2002 while awaiting his second trial due to having violated bail conditions by using the false name "John Stewart" to organize and conduct "new age" healing seminars in a rented space at the University of Toronto.) Orpin legally changed his name to John Stewart in 2006. He is the President of Biophysica, Inc. in Toronto, Ontario. | |
| Ortiz-Button, Olga | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: March 18, 2011 | 24 months prison. | |
| Osborne, Adam | Psychiatrist | United Kingdom |
| He had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a vulnerable female patient. She attempted suicide when he ended the relationship, and he threatened her when she reported him to the General Medical Council (GMC). Earlier in his career he was suspended from practicing for six months in 2010 for prescribing contraceptives to his then girlfriend and antipsychotic drugs to a cocaine-addicted prostitute who he had a set up in an apartment, reportedly, so he could have "sex on tap". Date convicted: February 16, 2016 | Struck off the medical register (revoked). | |
| Otote, Idowu | psychiatrist | England |
| Serious professional misconduct (harassment of nurses). Date convicted: March 2003 | License suspended for 1 year. | |
| Otten, Sonja | counselor and mental health practitioner | U.S. Nebraska |
| Sex with client. Date convicted: June 2004 | License revoked. | |
| OTUOMAGIE, SUNDAY | group home worker | Canada Alberta |
| Sexually assaulting a woman in his care. Date convicted: February 28, 2000 | Nearly 2 years in jail and 6 months probation | |
| Overby, Damon | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Felony domestic violence. Date convicted: February 11, 2008 | Unknown | |
| Overton, Luanne | counselor | U.S. Kentucky |
| License suspended or revoked. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| OWEN, ROGER GLYNN | counselor | New Zealand Auckland |
| Having sex with a teenage girl under his care Date convicted: May 7, 1999 | 3 years in jail | |
| OYESANMI, OLUGBENGA | psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Killing a 29-year-old man while driving drunk and fleeing the scene of the crime. Date convicted: August 2000 | 5 to 12 years in prison and community service | |
| P. (UNIDENTIFIED), S. | psychiatric nurse | Canada Toronto |
| Sexually assaulting a teenage female patient. Date convicted: August 2000 | 1 year of house arrest and 2 years probation | |
| Padnes, Stephen Charles | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Illegal distribution of controlled substances. Over a 16-month period preceding late June 2016, Padnes prescribed over 16,000 pills of addictive controlled substances, including oxycodone and methadone, in exchange for cash payments. Investigators determined he typically charged $400 or more in cash for each visit, and it was estimated that he made up to $4,000 or more per day -- hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Date convicted: August 29, 2016 | Immediate temporary Suspension to be followed with separate action to Suspend, Revoke or otherwise restrict his license. | |
| Pages, Beltran | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Sexually abused a female patient. Date convicted: 1988 | License revoked for 3 years. | |
| Pajares, Raoul | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Sexual misconduct. Date convicted: December 13, 2003 | License revoked. | |
| PAKES, EDWARD H. | psychiatrist | Canada Toronto |
| Defrauding the government health insurance of over $16,000 (Canadian). Date convicted: October 4, 1999 | Suspended jail sentence, 160 hours community service and placed on 2 years probation | |
| Palermo, Christine | mental health therapist | U.S. Nebraska |
| Medicaid fraud (billed the state for more than $4,300 in therapy services she did not actually deliver). Date convicted: October 31, 2007 | 90 days jail, 3 years probation and ordered to pay more than $3,200 restitution. | |
| Palladino, Arthur | psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine charged Palladino with engaging in sexual relationships with two female patients and with recreational use of prescription narcotics and illicit drugs with the patient. s State license revoked or suspended March 2005 Excluded from Medicaid Date convicted: August 7, 2003 | License suspended. He was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in March 2005 and ultimately resigned his medical license. | |
| Palmer, Lorie | Psychologist | U.S. CA |
| Lorie Palmer, along with her twin sister, was convicted (pleaded no contest) on June 9, 2016 to felony theft of public funds. Between August 2014 and February 2016, she and her sister submitted claims for services that were never delivered. The two sisters bilked the California Victim Compensation Program out of nearly $55,000. Date convicted: August 10, 2016 | Four months in jail and three years of supervised probation. A restitution hearing was scheduled. | |
| Palmer, Lorie | Psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Based on the June 9, 2016 conviction for felony theft of public funds. Date convicted: August 31, 2016 | Surrendered license, effective September 30, 2016. | |
| PALMIERI, ROGER J. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Possession of cocaine and firing a gun in his apartment. Date convicted: Circa 1993 | 1 year in county jail | |
| PANZARINO, PETER M. | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Tax evasion. Date convicted: September 11, 1992 | 3 years probation and community service | |
| Park, Soo Tong | psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Defrauding state of $2.1 million in funds relative to public aid claims and filing false state income tax returns. Date convicted: January 14, 2005 | 2 years probation and restitution. | |
| Parker, Amina | psych nurse | U.S. New Jersey |
| Official misconduct: coerced patient to have sex or she'd prevent his release. Date convicted: August 12, 2005 | 3 years prison. Parker surrendered her license August 2005. | |
| Parks, Melissa | counselor | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Health insurance fraud conviction. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Parmentier, Arthur Hilton | Psychiatrist | U.S. Rhode Island |
| Committed a boundary violation with his patient while also prescribing controlled substances, including opioids.
Date convicted: September 13, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| Parr, Deborah | Psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| She excessive signed certifications recommending marijuana for medical use, over 300 certifications were signed from January to May of 2016. Date convicted: July 19, 2016 | Colorado medical license is suspended. A restriction barring her from providing written certification for the medical use of marijuana was placed on her New Mexico license by that state's board on September 20, 2016. | |
| PARRISH, CHARLES E. | psychiatric nurse | U.S. Virginia |
| Pleaded guilty to taking indecent liberties with 6 female patients aged 14 to 16-years-old, in his care for treatment of abuse, including rape. In December, 1999, Parish was sentenced to 30 days in jail (suspended) for the assault of a 14-year-old male patient. Date convicted: June 23, 2000 | 12 years in prison (with all but 12 months suspended for 20 years) and indefinite probation | |
| Parsa, Bruce | psychiatrist | U.S. Missouri |
| Conspiracy to dispense or distribute controlled substances. Date convicted: February 24, 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Parsia, Keykhosrow S. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| On May 11, 2016, Parsia was charged along with two other doctors in a scheme to sell commonly abused prescription drugs in exchange for cash payments. Specific charges include conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, distribution of controlled substances, health care fraud, and money laundering. The defendants sold prescriptions for Suboxone and Klonopin in exchange for cash payments. Many of the customers who frequented this clinic were, in fact, drug dealers or drug addicts who sold the prescribed medications. The case is being tried in US District Court Eastern Pennsylvania.
Date convicted: May 16, 2016 | License suspended by medical board. | |
| PARTRIDGE, WILLIAM | school counselor | U.S. California |
| Fondling a student. Date convicted: April 24, 1992 | 45 days freeway cleanup and therapy | |
| Partridge, William E. | mental health counselor | U.S. Illinois |
| Aggravated criminal sexual abuse (engaged in several instances of sex with a 17-year old patient). Date convicted: March 9, 2005 | 60 days jail, four years probation and the forfeiture of his car to the village of Morton, Illinois, where he committed the crime. | |
| Pascal, Harold | psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Medicaid fraud and illegal medical prescriptions. Date convicted: February 1, 2008 | 6 to 18 months in jail. | |
| PASCUCCI, NICHOLAS J. | child psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Workers' Compensation insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 9, 1999 | 1 year in jail, 3 years probation and ordered to pay more than $324,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Pasic, Josip | Psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Pasic engaged in sexual conduct with mentally ill patients to whom he also prescribed opioid painkillers and other drugs. He was sued by the father of one patient who claimed Pasic's sexual advances led to his son's death in 2011. Allegations of his behavior go back a decade. Date convicted: December 14, 2016 | His license was Suspended on an emergency basis. | |
| PATEL, SHARAD C. | psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Defrauding several health insurance programs. Date convicted: April 1994 | 4 months in prison and 4 months house arrest and ordered to pay $200,000 | |
| PATILLO, MARY LEE | group home executive | U.S. Michigan |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 23, 1998 | 5 years probation and ordered to pay $150,138 in restitution | |
| Patterson, Michael | psychiatrist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Unlawful distribution of prescription drugs Date convicted: May 4, 2012 | Guilty | |
| PATTON, RICHARD E. | therapist | U.S. Colorado |
| The sexual assault of a patient. Date convicted: March 1998 | 5 years in jail | |
| Patton, Gary C. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| On April 15, 2002, he pled guilty to charges of two counts of Possession of Schedule IV Controlled Substances, based upon his accidental overdose of Ecstasy and GRB. Other more recent deficiencies in his drug prescribing date back to 2011. A patient of Patton's was found dead on December 14, 2012 of an alleged overdose. He failed to meet prescribing limitations and other conditions that were put on his license in 2014. The Board concluded that the licensee's practice constituted a danger to the public. Date convicted: July 22, 2016 | Revoked Effective 8/2/2016. | |
| Paul, David S. | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Stalking a female client after she broke off their personal/romantic relationship. Date convicted: January 2003 | License suspended and ordered by state to close his practice. His license in the state of Iowa was revoked November 12, 2004 in response to the Ohio action. | |
| PAYNE, GARY | counselor | Canada |
| Assaulting two mentally disabled men Date convicted: October 3, 1990 | 30 days in jail | |
| Paynter, Leanne | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Sex with inmate of the facility where she was employed (a civil commitment center). Date convicted: September 24, 2010 | Pre-trial diversion program. | |
| Payton, Ed | mental health executive | U.S. North Carolina |
| Theft Date convicted: April 20, 2012 | 18 months prison and must repay $130,000 | |
| Peak, James H. | psychiatrist | U.S. Montana |
| Possession of child pornography Date convicted: December 7, 2011 | 1 year prison | |
| PEARCE, GRAHAM RUSSELL | psychiatric nurse | Australia Melbourne |
| Repeatedly raping an 18-year-old female patient. Date convicted: February 25, 1999 | 15 years in jail | |
| Peikert , Brandee Leigh | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Criminal sexual conduct and illegal use of a computer. Peikert was convicted of engaging in a sexual relationship with a young female client. Date convicted: May 13, 2010 | Nine months jail, five years probation and must register as a sex offender. | |
| Peloquin, Paul | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: August 21, 2005 | License revoked. | |
| PENDEXTER, JOHN F. | counselor | U.S. Wyoming |
| Sexual assault on a retarded female patient. Date convicted: November 1998 | 1 year in prison and 5 years supervised probation | |
| Perez, Elsy Marina de Guadalupe | psychologist | South America Colombia |
| Conspiracy and trafficking (selling babies). Date convicted: March 4, 2011 | 9 1/2 years prison. | |
| Perez, Juan | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Reckless driving under the influence and unlicensed driving. Two other convictions in February and March of 2001. Date convicted: June 4, 2001 | Pleaded guilty | |
| PERSSON, DONALD R. | school psychologist | U.S. Utah |
| Raping a 12 year old girl and possession of child pornography. Evidence suggested he may have sexually assaulted 16 other children and as many as 35 women. Date convicted: June 11, 1992 | 10 years in prison | |
| PETERS, ALICE | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Theft of over $20,000 (submitted fraudulent billings to the Texas Medicaid insurance program). Date convicted: December 19, 2001 | 15 years prison and $365,000 restitution. | |
| PETERSON, CARL | operator of group home for mentally retarded | U.S. Ohio |
| Theft and money laundering. Date convicted: December 1, 1997 | 48 months in jail, 3 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $423,264 restitution | |
| PETERSON, WARREN H. | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: December 12, 1997 | 17 months in prison (stayed with conditions of probation: 120 days in the workhouse concurrent with the 8 months in the workhouse imposed for his recent probation revocation), fined $6000 (reduced to $500 and 200 hours of community service) and ordered to pay nearly $3,701.00 in restitution | |
| Peterson, Carl R. | psychiatrist | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Contempt of court. (Peterson violated terms of visitation with his wife, who was in state custody as a vulnerable adult [one who is unable to make decisions for themselves and are being abused, neglected or exploited by a caretaker] due to evidence that Peterson had been drugging her with a psychotropic drug "against her best interest and [her] physician's advice," according to the court's record. Peterson brought the drug with him on a visit to his wife. Date convicted: August 2006 | 6 months jail, all suspended but 10 days, ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor and to remain at least a half mile from his wife. | |
| Petrova, Irina | psychiatrist | Russia |
| Taking a bribe. Date convicted: May 6, 2010 | Fine or penalty of 50,000 rubles (approximately U.S. $1,800). | |
| Phillips, James | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Sex with retarded patients. Date convicted: April 2004 | License suspended indefinitely. | |
| PHILO, PETER | counselor | U.S. New York |
| Raping a 15-year-old girl. Date convicted: October 12, 2000 | 1 year in county jail | |
| PHILPOT, MARK E. | mental health aide | U.S. Texas |
| Sexually assaulting female clients. Date convicted: July 1992 | 12 years in prison | |
| Pierner, Tammy | Psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Operating [vehicle] While Intoxicated (OWI) -- 3rd Offense Date convicted: April 13, 2016 | 14 days in county jail, 18 month probation. | |
| Pierner, Tammy | Psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Unprofessional conduct related to her use of alcohol and prescription drugs, improper prescribing of controlled substances, failure to report a prior conviction for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, practice of medicine without a valid medical license and other. Date convicted: April 20, 2016 | License suspended indefinitely. | |
| Pignatiello, Michael | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Impaired objectivity, dual relationships, negligence, welfare of client, etc. Date convicted: July 2003 | 1 year suspension, 3 months active. | |
| PIKE, ALBERT | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Illegally prescribing drugs and Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: November 5, 1999 | 2 years in prison, 2 1/2 years probation and fined $9,000 | |
| Pilling, Brek A. | Psychologist | U.S. Idaho |
| Illegally entered into a business venture with a client for whom he had done counseling sessions. Date convicted: February 12, 2016 | License Surrendered | |
| PITCOCK, HAROLD W. | social worker | U.S. Washington |
| 11 sex crimes against young boys, for whom he was supposed to find foster homes. Date convicted: October 2, 1996 | 17 1/2 years in prison | |
| PITZEL, KURT | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Sex-related crimes involving several children. Date convicted: December 4, 1998 | 1 year in jail and 10 years probation | |
| Pizarro, Cecilio | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Illegally dispensing quantities of Methadone and Illegally dispensing quantities of Oxycodone. Date convicted: September 25, 2007 | 27 months prison on each count, to run concurrently. | |
| PLAISTED, JAMES | child psychologist | U.S. Texas |
| Sexually assaulting 4 young girls. Plaisted was already serving a 2 year sentence for luring a patient from Texas to Boston to continue molesting her. Date convicted: December 1995 | 40 years in jail | |
| PLATNER, DONALD | psychologist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sexual exploitation by a therapist, stemming from a former patient's accusations that she had a 7-year sexual relationship with him. Date convicted: March, 2002 | 7 years probation (including 6 months electronic surveillance), 40 hours community service per year and a $300 annual contribution to a crime prevention fund. | |
| POETTER, LOUIS J. | mental health executive | U.S. Georgia |
| Sexual abuse of young boys, who were his patients. Date convicted: April 8, 1988 | 8 years in jail and 12 years probation | |
| PONDER, JULIE | Psychotherapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Reckless child abuse (found guilty for her role in the suffocation death of a 10-year-old girl during an effort to simulate her birth by the use of "rebirthing therapy"). Date convicted: June 18, 2001 | 16 years prison. | |
| Pool, David | psychologist | U.S. Arizona |
| Substance abuse. Date convicted: August 2005 | License placed on inactive status and shall not practice until he demonstrates to the Board his fitness to practice with regard to his substance abuse. | |
| POPE, LANCE | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Burglarizing homes. Date convicted: April 1999 | 2 1/2 years in prison (1 year suspended) and ordered to pay $22,000 in restitution | |
| Popov, Maxim | psychologist | Uzbekistan |
| Published book which appears to promote promiscuity and drug use. Date convicted: September 2009 | 7 years jail. | |
| Porter, Paul Michael | psychiatrist | Canada Toronto, Ontario |
| Incompetence and professional misconduct. Date convicted: December 13, 2000 | License suspended 2 and 1/2 years. | |
| Porter, Paul Michael | Psychiatrist | Canada Ontaria |
| Sexually abusing an "extremely vulnerable" patient by "hugging her, kissing her, holding her hand, having her sit on his lap, and making remarks of a sexual nature." Date convicted: September 28, 2016 | License Revoked | |
| Post, Timothy Allen | Psychologist | U.S. Missouri |
| In 2012, he failed to submit the results of an evaluation he performed for a patient in a timely manner which constituted a failure to perform the psychological services to which he had agreed. Also, his license has been suspended twice for failure to comply with Missouri's tax laws. Date convicted: March 6, 2016 | Surrendered medical license. | |
| POWELL, RICHARD WAYNE | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Insurance fraud (billed health insurance companies for psychotherapy sessions delivered by unqualified staff as if they had been delivered by a licensed psychiatrist). Date convicted: May 23, 2003 | 3 years probation, $19,286 restitution and fees of $498; served one day in jail at time of arrest. | |
| Powell, Richard Wayne | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: July 2003 | License suspended for 60 days. | |
| Powell, Dana L. | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| License suspended or revoked. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Powell, Gerald | Psychiatrist | Canada Ontario |
| Investigators found numerous concerns in reviewing 25 patient charts, finding lapses in documentation such as omitting start and stop times in appointments and failing to document the monitoring of side effects from atypical antipsychotic drugs. The investigator testified that "all 25 charts showed evidence of inappropriate billing and that Dr. Powell's billing practices did not meet the standard of practice of the profession." His license was suspended for four months and was ordered to pay $25,000 in fines. Date convicted: January 11, 2017 | License Suspended, $25,000 fine | |
| Powers, Robert | psychotherapist | U.S. Nebraska |
| Lost self-control in response to office memo which stated that only the office manager would have the key to certain office supply drawers. Powers took the memo outside and shot holes in it and then called in to work stating that he was too angry to return because "he might shoot somebody." Date convicted: June 2004 | Revoked. | |
| PRAKASH, PRABHA | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Improperly obtaining $8,688 from Medicaid insurance funds. Date convicted: February 1992 | A conditional discharge and to make full restitution of $8,688. | |
| Pratt, Jay | psychologist | U.S. Maine |
| Intimate relationship with patient. Date convicted: April 2004 | License surrendered. | |
| Pratt, Jay E. | counselor | U.S. Maine |
| Professional license revoked for sex with patient. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Prestin, Amy | counselor | U.S. Idaho |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: April 11, 2011 | $3,818 restitution and 3 years probation | |
| PRINCE, DEBORAH L. | mental health executive | U.S. Maryland |
| Stealing funds from a federal funded program. Date convicted: January 7, 1993 | 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $326,679 in restitution | |
| PRINCE, VICKI | counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Theft, forgery and misconduct in public office. Date convicted: November 15, 1996 | 9 months in jail and 4 years probation | |
| PRITCHERT, JAMES | school counselor | U.S. California |
| Smothered his wife to death. Date convicted: March 1996 | 11 years in jail after pleading guilty | |
| PROCTOR, BASIL | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Having sex with a teenage patient. Date convicted: April 2000 | 8 months in jail, 2 years house arrest and 5 years of sex-offender probation | |
| Provan, James Anton | psychologist | Australia Melbourne |
| Possessing child pornography. Police found 114 sexually explicit photos of boys under 18 on his computer hard drive. Date convicted: December 16, 2004 | Two-year community-based order and will be placed on the serious sexual offenders register for eight years. | |
| Psaila, Justin | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Grand larceny (theft) - submitted thousands of false claims to the Medicaid and Medicare insurance programs for psychiatric services that were never rendered. Date convicted: February 2, 2005 | $436,628.00 restitution and 3-year conditional discharge (same as a suspended sentence, in which the defendant must comply with certain conditions or else they will have to serve jail time). In October 2005, Psaila was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| PURVIN, JONATHAN M. | psychiatrist | U.S. Utah |
| Unlawful professional conduct (practicing without a license and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute). He was found to be practicing though his license had been suspended for refusal to either release the results of his psychological evaluation or be re-evaluated. Date convicted: May 22, 2002 | Surrender of licenses both to prescribe and practice and cannot reapply for 2 years (was jailed upon arrest for six days - 8/31/01 to 9/5/01). | |
| Puszkarski, Slawomir Jan | Psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| In U. S. District Court on May 23,2015, Puszkarski pled guilty to falsifying documents to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service in obtaining citizenship status of another individual. In June of 2012, Puszkarski falsely completed and submitted an immigration form certifying that his "patient" had a qualifying disability or impairment when he did not -- Puszkarski never even did an exam.
Date convicted: October 8, 2015 | Probation and a $10,000 fine. | |
| Puszkarski, Slawomir Jan | Psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Psychiatrist April 15, 2016 IL U.S.
He pleaded guilty to falsely completing and submitting an immigration form to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services Service to aid in obtaining citizenship status of another individual. There was an earlier summary suspension on the same matter in June, 2015.
Date convicted: April 15, 2016 | Illinois medical license and controlled substance license were both suspended indefinitely. | |
| Puszkarski, Slawomir Jan | Psychiatrist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Based on the May 23, 2015 conviction for falsifying documents to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service and his failure to report it to the board. Date convicted: June 15, 2016 | Wisconsin medical license was indefinitely suspended. | |
| QADEER, SHEIKH | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: September 10, 1991 | 6 months in jail (suspended) and ordered to perform 14 months community service and make restitution of $10,459 | |
| Qadeer, Sheikh | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Professional misconduct in failing to maintain records; deviated from accepted standards of care. Date convicted: December 26, 2016 | License inactivated. Precluded from practicing in New York. | |
| QUADE, JAMES R. | prison psychologist | U.S. Delaware |
| His part in a fraud scheme to gain federal and state government grants. Date convicted: August 13, 1999 | probation | |
| QUEENAN, JR., WILLIAM D. | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 15, 2001 | 27 months prison. | |
| QUINN, ROBERT D. | psychologist | U.S. Maryland |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: February 6, 1987 | 18 moths in jail and ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution | |
| QUINTERO, BENJAMIN A. | counselor | U.S. California |
| Drug dealing. Date convicted: November 1994 | 4 years probation | |
| Qureshi, Mohammed | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| 27 misdemeanor counts of sexual battery. Date convicted: March 28, 2011 | Ten years probation and loss of New York and Georgia medical licenses for 10 years. | |
| Rabone, Todd | mental health counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Sexual misconduct by a psychotherapist (was charged with making sexual comments, exposing himself or groping women in a court-ordered therapy program). Date convicted: November 27, 2007 | 3 years on probation (the first 3 months under house arrest) and forbidden from working as a therapist again. | |
| Raborn, Amy Rebecca | Psychologist | U.S. Colorado |
| On or about May 22, 2015, she pleaded guilty to engaging in a sexual relationship with a client who was an inmate. Date convicted: May 22, 2015 | Four years of probation and required to register as a sex offender. | |
| Raborn, Amy Rebecca | Psychologist | U.S. Colorado |
| For May 22, 2015 conviction on charges of engaging in a sexual relationship with a client who was an inmate Date convicted: December 2, 2016 | Relinquished license. | |
| RADCLIFFE, JOHN LESLIE DERWENTWATER | psychiatric hospitals executive | New Zealand |
| Charged with murdering his wife. Date convicted: November 2, 1998 | Detained: in a psychiatric hospital for up to 7 years, ruled unfit to stand trial | |
| Radecki, Thomas | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Radecki's medical license was revoked for 10 years, from 1992 to 2002, in Illinois for "Engaging in immoral conduct of unprofessional nature with a patient." In 2002, it was restored with probation and terms. In July of 2007 his Pennsylvania license was placed on Probation in response to the Illinois actions. On or about June 29,2012, the Board issued an Order of Temporarily Suspending Radecki's license based upon the earlier actions plus allegations that Radecki had again engaged in sexual misconduct with a patient in Pennsylvania which was caught on video. Date convicted: September 11, 2012 | Permanent Voluntary Surrender of Pennsylvania license. | |
| Radecki, Thomas | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Radecki operated four clinics under the business name "Doctors and Lawyers for a Drug-Free Youth." serving nearly 1,000 people. In 2011 and 2012, he had been investigated by a number of law enforcement agencies for his prescribing, dispensing, and billing practices. He was accused of overprescribing buprenorphine (Subutex and Suboxone), an opioid medication used to treat opioid addiction. One District Attorney said Radecki's practice fostered addiction, and that the majority of criminal drug related activity for several years was a result of the drugs Radecki was prescribing. The State Attorney General identified Radecki as the largest purchaser and distributor of Subutex in the United States. He also had a sexual and business relationship with one of his patients which resulted in the birth of a child. Radecki was convicted in April 2016 of multiple counts of distributing controlled substances and having inappropriate relationships with patients. Date convicted: June 1, 2016 | Sentenced to 11-22 years in prison and ordered to pay out $430,000 in liquid assets from his practice as fines. | |
| Rainey, Debra Kay | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Failed to comply with a medical board order for a mental evaluation stemming from concerns that she suffers from a mental condition that impairs her ability to safely practice medicine.
Date convicted: September 2004 | Indefinite suspension and $5,000 fine. In October 2005, Rainey was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Ramaswamy, Trivandrum S. | psychiatrist | U.S. Indiana |
| Convicted of 4 counts theft, 4 counts intimidation, corrupt business practice. Date convicted: May 24, 2004 | 3 years prison, 1 year home detention and 3 years probation. He was excluded from participation from federally-funded health programs (Medicaid, etc.) in April 2005. | |
| RAMBERT, CLAUDE | psychiatrist | France Creteil |
| Rape of a female former patient. Date convicted: February 18, 2003 | 5 years prison with all but 6 months suspended. | |
| Ramey, Gregory | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Six counts of endangering children and one count of tampering with evidence. In exchange for his plea, other charges involving child pornography were dropped. Date convicted: December 16, 2021 | Six months in a lock-down sex offender treatment program, up to six months in county jail, up to five years of supervised release, and $30,000 in fines and court costs | |
| Ramos, Armado | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Revealed to have a criminal background. Date convicted: December 13, 2003 | License revoked. | |
| RAMSDELL, ZALEXIE ANN | counselor | U.S. Minnesota |
| Third-degree criminal sexual conduct (involving a male juvenile resident of the facility where she worked). Date convicted: July, 2002 | 160 days jail; 18 months prison, suspended for 15 years; 15 years probation; $500 fine and $1,900 restitution. | |
| Randall, John G. | psychiatrist | U.S. Ohio |
| Failed to renewed his license since 1976. Date convicted: February 2003 | License permanently revoked. | |
| Rank, Douglas | psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| First-degree assault. Rank stabbed a female patient with a sword, reportedly after she ended their sexual/romantic relationship. Date convicted: December 21, 2010 | 15 years prison. | |
| RANSOM, ROBERT S. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| His part in American Psychometric Consultants, Inc. conspiracy to defraud insurance companies and employers out of millions of dollars through billing for bogus psychological reports. Date convicted: March 1998 | 1 year in jail | |
| RANTUCCIO, JOSEPH | psychologist | U.S. Colorado |
| Sexually assaulting a woman. Date convicted: March 1995 | 30 days in jail and 10 years probation | |
| RAPPAPORT, MICHAEL E. | psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| Seducing 2 female patients. Date convicted: September 7, 1983 | 6 months in prison at hard labor, fined $9,000 and discharged from the Air Force | |
| Realini, Renzo | psychiatrist | Switzerland Ticino |
| 300 counts of insurance fraud against 24 different companies totalling nearly $5 million francs (approximately US $4 million). He billed for 30-hour days. Date convicted: May 13, 2005 | 2 years prison. | |
| REASTER-GLOVER, SHARMANE B. | psychiatric technician | U.S. South Carolina |
| Accessory to the scalding death of a 72-year-old man (failed to check the water temperature in the tub in which the man was placed and ignored the patient's complaints. Patient suffered severe burns and died a week later). Date convicted: June 2001 | 90 days jail and 5 years probation. | |
| REDFERING, DAVID L. | psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: August 8, 1996 | 33 months in jail, 3 years supervised release and ordered to pay $81,893 in restitution | |
| Reeves, Stephanie | Psychologist | England |
| Engaged in sex with patient of facility where she worked. Date convicted: Februrary 13, 2008 | 12 month suspended jail sentence, 2 years probation and must register as a sex offender for 10 years. | |
| REID, CARL | developmental disabilities agency employee | U.S. Oregon |
| Attempted sexual abuse of developmentally disabled patients. Date convicted: March 30, 2000 | 2 years in prison and 5 years probation | |
| REID, STEVEN | psychology lecturer | U.K. London |
| Murdering a female colleague. Date convicted: September 13, 2000 | Life in prison | |
| Reidel, Daniel | mental health aide | U.S. California |
| Health insurance fraud conviction. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Reimer, Michael | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Possession of cocaine, morphine and drug paraphernalia Date convicted: December 8, 2010 | Convicted | |
| Reinstein, Michael Johnson | Psychiatrist | Illinois |
| He pleaded guilty on February 13, 2015 to violating the federal Medicare and Medicaid AntiKickback Statute for accepting nearly $600,000 in fees and benefits from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for prescribing a medication to his patients. He prescribed the drug Clozapine to thousands of elderly and indigent patients in Chicago area nursing homes and hospitals. Clozapine is an antipsychotic medication with potentially serious side effects, particularly for elderly patients. He prescribed Clozaril, the brand-name version of Clozapine, long after less expensive, generic versions were available, because the manufacturer of Clozaril paid him thousands of dollars to promote the drug. At one point, he was the largest prescriber of the drug to Medicaid recipients in the United States. Reinstein previously agreed to pay the United States and the State of Illinois $3.79 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed by the United States in November 2012. Date convicted: March 11, 2016 | 9 months in federal prison and forfeiture of $592,000. | |
| Reinstein, Michael Johnson | Psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| Convicted for receiving illegal kickbacks and benefits totaling nearly $600,000 from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for regularly prescribing the anti-psychotic drug Clozapine to his patients. His license had been suspended since 2014. Date convicted: April 15, 2016 | License revoked. | |
| RENICK, JOHN T. | psychiatric facility medical director | U.S. Florida |
| Health care insurance fraud. Date convicted: March 20, 2002 | 1 year and 1 day confinement and required to forfeit $67,569. | |
| RERMGOSAKUL, ADUL | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: August 22, 1995 | 5 years in prison (all but 30 days suspended), ordered to pay $235,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Ressner, Eric | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| In exchange for large amounts of cash, Ressner lent his name and Drug Enforcement Administration license to a prescription fraud scheme involving two other doctors and a pharmacist, that netted nearly $10 million in false claim payments. Date convicted: November 3, 2006 | 4 years prison. | |
| RETKINSKY, JACK | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Grand larceny (billed the New York Board of Education for over $1 million in therapy services that were never provided). Date convicted: November 26, 2002 | 2 1/2-to-7 1/2 years prison and must repay roughly half the $1.2 million he was convicted of overbilling for, or the entire amount if a co-defendant fails to pay his portion. | |
| Reynolds, Constance | psychologist | U.S. Montana |
| Sex with the partner of a patient. Date convicted: June 18, 2004 | License revoked. Reynolds was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in August 2005. | |
| Rice, James L. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Providing a false prescription (misdemeanor). Rice wrote prescriptions for another doctor, but not in that doctor's own name. Date convicted: September 18, 2008 | Diversion program (similar to probation but if he complies with all requirements, the charges against him will be dismissed in two years). | |
| RICHARDS, AARON D. | counselor | U.S. Wyoming |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: October 2000 | 1 year of probation and ordered to pay $5,300 in restitution | |
| RICHARDS, DARRELL DEAN | psychology professor | U.S. California |
| Sexual battery of 2 young boys, 10 and 6 years old. Date convicted: December 7, 1987 | 5 years probation | |
| Ridout, Bradley | psychiatric treatment center employee | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Misdemeanor negligent patient abuse. (Ridout physically restrained 7-year-old Angellika Arndt, using the weight of his body to hold her face-down on the ground for 41 minutes, significantly impairing her ability to breathe, resulting in her death by "positional asphyxia.") Date convicted: March 12, 2007 | 2 months jail and 1 year probation with the possibility of 6 more months incarceration if he fails (violates the terms of) probation. | |
| Riedel, William | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Sexual exploitation of a minor and child molestation. Date convicted: February 11, 2011 | 35 years prison. | |
| Rigano , John Peter Dominic | psychiatrist | Australia |
| Six counts of indecent dealing: massaged and masturbated a teenage boy patient over a two-year period. Date convicted: April 29, 2009 | Three and half years prison, suspended after nine months served. | |
| Rivelli, Cori Lynn | counselor | U.S. Illinois |
| Sex with 14-year-old client. Date convicted: August 20, 2010 | 3 and 1/2 years prison. | |
| Rivera-Mass, Enrique | psychiatrist | U.S. North Dakota, Puerto Rico |
| Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Date convicted: October 27, 2010 | Loss of license, to be sentenced. | |
| Roberts, Elizabeth | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Negligence, incompetence and lack of good moral character.
Date convicted: January 2003 | License revoked. | |
| Robertson, April | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Professional license revoked. Documents have been requested from the Pennsylvania Board of Psychology which will show the reason for the revocation of Robertson's license.
On April 23, 2001, she was convicted of possession with intent to deliver Schedule IV controlled substance. Date convicted: October 2004 | Excluded from participation in federally-funded health bare programs (Medicaid, etc.) (2004) 6 months probation and $655 in fines and costs (2001) | |
| Robillard, Richard | mental health counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Second-degree assault (involving a 10-year-old boy), agreeing his intent was to commit child rape. Date convicted: May 30, 2008 | 9 months jail (which was served on home detention prior to sentencing); ordered to enter sexual deviancy program and remain under supervision for three years. | |
| ROBINSON, DALLAS K. | counselor | U.K. Nelson |
| Fraudulently using her employer's checks. Date convicted: March 1999 | 200 hours community service and ordered to pay $2,544 restitution | |
| Robinson, Pamela | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Negligence & incompetence. Date convicted: May 2004 | License suspended 3 months. | |
| Robinson, Susan M. | psychologist | Australia |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: May 2004 | License suspended for six months. | |
| Robinson, Carolyn | mental health worker | U.S. Tennessee |
| Patient abuse conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| RODDY, DONALD K. | former drug counselor | U.S. Ohio |
| Possession of drugs, misuse of credit cards, passing bad checks, forgery and deception to obtain a dangerous drug (defrauded family and creditors of about $70,000 which he used to feed his addiction to painkillers.) Date convicted: February 13, 2002 | 6 year prison term, suspended, provided he repays his wife and other creditors $16,000; 6 months in minimum security jail and must complete a drug treatment program. | |
| Roddy, William Meyer | Psychiatrist | U.S. Alabama |
| Evidence of excessive dispensing of controlled substances and other related charges. A final hearing is scheduled for October 25,2017. Date convicted: January 16, 2017 | The Board temporarily suspended the Alabama Controlled Substances Certificate and ordered that he not practice medicine in any form pending final resolution of the case. | |
| Rodriguez, Jorge | psychologist | U.S. Virginia |
| Sexual battery. Date convicted: March 2, 2011 | 180 days jail, contingent upon 12 months good behavior. | |
| Rodriguez-Dowling, Maria | psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid fraud conviction Date convicted: December 9, 2011 | Unknown | |
| Rogers, Kay Edison | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Failed to properly monitor a diabetic psychiatric patient. Date convicted: May 2005 | Struck off the nursing register (license revoked). | |
| ROPIHA, LENI NOAH | counselor | New Zealand Wellington |
| Threatening to cut off a woman's fingers if she did not give him her rings. Date convicted: December 1995 | 4 months periodic detention. | |
| Rosenberg, Jordan | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Health care fraud, mail fraud and making false statements, relative to defrauding the Medicare insurance program of $322,000. Date convicted: December 7, 2004 | 3 years prison, ordered to pay restitution of $250,000 and to forfeit all assets including a house acquired with the fraudulently obtained money. | |
| Rosenberg, Joshua | psychologist | U.S. Iowa |
| Sexual harassment and inappropriate physical contact. Rosenberg did not respond to the licensing board's communication regarding the investigation of complaints against him. Date convicted: September 2003 | License suspended. | |
| Rosenberg, Jordan M. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Criminal conviction for fraud Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| ROSENBLATT, SIDNEY | school psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 1999 | 2 months of weekends in jail, 5 years probation and ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution | |
| Rosenfeld, Irwin Ira | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Gross negligence and excessive prescribing of controlled substances. Three patients died as a result of their drug use while in his care. Rosenfeld has a long history of discipline for excessive prescribing. In 2011, he was placed on five years' board probation for gross negligence, violating laws regarding dangerous drugs and controlled substances and engaging in unprofessional conduct. Earlier, in 1999, he was placed on five years' probation for similar charges. Date convicted: September 9, 2016 | Surrendered California medical license. | |
| ROSENTHAL, DAVID | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sexual battery and having sex with a patient. Date convicted: March 13, 2001 | 180 days jail and 3 years probation; ordered not to see female patients or patients under age 21 for at least the length of probation and must register as a sex offender for life. | |
| Rosenthal, Eric H. | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Several violations relative to dual or sexual relationships with clients. Date convicted: 10/21/2003 | Voluntarily surrendered license for a minimum of 5 years. On April 20, 2004, Rosenthal was excluded from participation in federally funded health care program (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| ROSS, DARRELL STEPHAN | psychologist | U.S. Texas |
| Working as a psychologist without a license. Date convicted: November 29, 1993 | 15 days in jail | |
| ROSS, JAMES L. | psychiatrist. | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Stalking and terrorizing two members of the state medical licensing board. Date convicted: September 9, 1998 | 3 years probation | |
| Ross, David Opollo | psychologist | U.S. Hawaii |
| Tax evasion and conspiring to evade income tax. Date convicted: July 13, 2010 | 45 months prison. | |
| Ross, Lei Lavarias | psychologist | U.S. Hawaii |
| Tax evasion and conspiring to evade income tax. Date convicted: July 13, 2010 | 18 months prison. | |
| ROULSTON, DONNA | nurse | U.K. Derby |
| Physically assaulting mentally disabled patients. Date convicted: September 15, 2000 | 4 months in prison (suspended) | |
| ROWELL, GEORGE | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| State health insurance fraud. Date convicted: May 8, 1997 | 2 years in jail and ordered to pay $23,020 in fines and restitution | |
| ROWELL, MILDRED | mental health employee | U.S. California |
| State health insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 1997 | 5 years probation and 1,000 hours of community service and ordered to pay $22,020 restitution jointly with her psychiatrist husband, George | |
| ROWLAND, CHRISTOPHER V. | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Writing illegal prescriptions for medication for drug-dependent patients. Date convicted: November 21, 1996 | 1 year of house arrest | |
| RUBIN, SEYMOUR H. | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Illegally dispensing prescription drugs. Date convicted: January 31, 1991 | 2 years in jail (suspended) and ordered to pay $48,000 in fines and restitution | |
| RUBIO, CHARLES T. | psychologist | U.S. Alabama |
| Defrauding health insurance programs. Date convicted: Circa February, 1998 | 1 year in federal prison, 3 years supervised release, fined $5,000 and ordered to repay $65,332 | |
| RUELAS, RONALD | school counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Sexually molesting 6 students at the school where he worked. Date convicted: June 30, 2000 | 175 years in prison | |
| Ruona, Luanne | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Impaired ability to practice due to alcohol abuse. Date convicted: August 1999 | License suspended approximately 2 years. | |
| Russell, Michele C. | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| Excessive alcohol use. On July 23, 2012 she was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) with blood alcohol of .22-.24%. There was an open bottle of vodka on her car's backseat. At the time of the arrest, Russel offered a California Highway Patrol Officer sexual favors in order to receive leniency. In May of 2013 Russell had more alcohol related incidents leading to an arrest and a misdemeanor conviction for disturbing the peace. Date convicted: February 5, 2016 | Surrendered license, effective March 6, 2016. | |
| Ruzyla, Patricia | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to the public due to a mental or physical condition. Date convicted: December 2003 | License indefinitely suspended. | |
| Ryabik, Brett | psychiatrist | U.S. Kentucky |
| Obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, trafficking in controlled substances and prohibited activities relating to controlled substances. Date convicted: August 11, 2004 | License suspended 5 years. | |
| RYAN, CLIVE EDMUND | psychiatrist | Canada Vancouver |
| Sexually assaulting a female patient. Date convicted: January 29, 1991 | 6 months in prison | |
| Ryan, Christina | psychiatric nurse | England |
| Smuggled heroin into a prison. Date convicted: July 21, 2009 | 3 1/2 years prison | |
| Ryder, Robert | marriage & family therapist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: November 9, 2004 | License surrendered. | |
| Ryszard , Jaworski | psychiatrist | Poland |
| Forced his assistant (a former patient) to have sex with 32 jailed sex offenders for study of "experimental therapy." Date convicted: March 13, 2009 | 2 years prison suspended and loss of license for 4 years. | |
| Saadien-Raad, Maurice | psychiatrist | UK |
| Inappropriate behavior with female patients and nurses; lied about qualification and disciplinary record in his native South Africa. Date convicted: June 27, 2011 | License revoked. | |
| SABADIA, OMAR | psychiatrist | South Africa Pretoria |
| Having his wife murdered to collect her life insurance policy. Date convicted: March 1998 | 65 years in prison | |
| Sabaratnam, Sekilar (a.k.a. Rudra) | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Paid illegal kickbacks for patient referrals. Date convicted: August 30, 2010 | 24 months prison. | |
| Sabatino, David Albert | psychologist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Engaged in sex with two patients, attempted to solicit sex from two others and engaged in other contacts with patients in violation of the state's criminal code and Psychology Practice Act. Date convicted: November 2004 | License permanently suspended. On April 11, 2008, the state of Virginia (where Sabatino was employed as a school psychologist) suspended his license upon discovering he'd had his Tennessee license revoked (a fact he'd withheld on his Virginia license application). Virginia denied him reinstatement and revoked his license on July 10, 2008. | |
| SABOT, THEODORE J. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Stealing more than $400,000 from Medi-Cal insurance program to finance his wife's cocaine habit. Date convicted: March 16, 1985 | 5 years in prison | |
| Sacks, Frederick M. | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Negligence, competence issues. Date convicted: September 2003 | 1 year suspension, 30 days active. | |
| SADRI, MANOUCHER | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: September 1996 | 5 years in jail (all but 3 months suspended) and ordered to pay $285,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Saindon, Chris | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Drunk driving and causing great bodily harm. Date convicted: January 9, 2009 | 3 years prison, suspended, 3 years formal probation, 365 days sober living program. | |
| Saiyed, Shama Begum | Psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Saiyed's handwritten progress notes for many of her patients were inadequate, incomplete, and illegible to the point they were nearly impossible to read by another practitioner. She falsified records to the Investigator. Saiyed prescribed controlled substances to numerous patients without documenting an appropriate medical justification, obtaining prior treatment or pharmacy records and neglected to provide controlled substance monitoring. Date convicted: June 23, 2016 | License Suspended Indefinitely. | |
| SAJAN, JOHN | psychiatric hospital chief operating officer | U.S. Ohio |
| Making illegal payments (called "kickbacks") to others for referring Medicare insurance-covered patients for treatment at the hospital where he worked. Date convicted: March, 2002 | 4-months prison; 4 months home confinement with electronic monitoring; 2 years probation and $600,000 restitution. | |
| Sakihama, Morimitsu | psychiatrist | Japan |
| Sakihama was commissioned to conduct 2009 month prison
psychiatric tests on a teenage boy who had been arrested for setting fire to his home and killing his mother and two
siblings. He showed the boy's depositions to a freelance journalist who later wrote a book about he case. Date convicted: April 15, 2009 | Suspended 4-month prison psychiatric tests on a sentence. | |
| Salama, Joseph S. | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Statutory rape (prescribed a tranquilizer and sedative to a 14-year-old girl in exchange for sexual favors). Date convicted: March 24, 1978 | Seven years prison. | |
| Samson, Andrzej | psychologist | Poland |
| Pedophilia (sex with children) and distributing child pornography. Date convicted: January 9, 2007 | 8 years prison and banned from practicing for 10 years. | |
| SAN JUAN, RAPHAEL | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud after billing for patients he never saw. Date convicted: April 9, 1998 | 9 years in prison | |
| Sanborn , Donald | psychologist | U.S. Vermont |
| Sexual abuse of a vulnerable adult. Date convicted: September 30, 2009 | 3 years jail | |
| Sanborn, Michael T. | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Sexually suggestive conversations with adolescent males (patients and non-patients). Date convicted: June 1997 | Surrendered license. | |
| SANCHEZ, NICK R. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 1989 | 60 days in a work-furlough program and fined $7,000 | |
| SANCHEZ, SIMON | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 12, 1990 | 6 months in jail, 840 hours community service and fined $1,000 | |
| Sandstrom, John G. | psychologist | Norway |
| Falsified medical reports for criminals so they could apply for postponed or lesser convictions or avoid going to jail. Date convicted: December 4, 2007 | 2 1/2 years prison, fined 100,000 NOK (U.S. $18,250) and 25,000 NOK (U.S. $4,500) for court expenses. His license was also revoked. | |
| SANTANA, RONALD | psychology instructor | U.S. Louisiana |
| Possession of child pornography. Date convicted: February 21, 2001 | 27 months prison and 3 years supervised release. | |
| Santeiro, Jose | psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| Conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud, as well as eight counts of healthcare fraud Date convicted: July 8, 2022 | Fifty-four months prison | |
| Sarabi, Joan | social worker | U.S. Tennessee |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| SARGEANT, THOMAS L. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Receiving more than $100,000 from Medicare health insurance for services he never delivered. Date convicted: March 6, 1996 | 18 months in federal prison | |
| Saunders, Thomas M. | psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| In the 1970s and 80s, Saunders counseled priest Thomas Pagni for issues of sexual deviancy with young male parishioners. Pagni was ultimately forced to resign from the priesthood. He later obtained a master's degree in mental health counseling and applied for a license in the state of Florida. In January 1991, Saunders responded to a questionnaire regarding his knowledge of the Pagni, responding "no" to questions of his knowledge of Pagni's "trustworthiness in relation to his responsibilities" or of "any unfavorable incidents" in his life, "at school, college , business or otherwise" that would have any bearing upon their character or fitness to perform as a mental health counselor. Saunders recommended Pagni for licensure by the state of Florida.
Date convicted: April 26, 2004 | Voluntarily relinquished his license. He was excluded from participation in federally-funded health plans (Medicaid, etc.) in September 2003. | |
| Savadove, Robert | psychiatrist | U.S. Maine |
| Inappropriate relationship with patient. Date convicted: March 16, 2006 | License surrendered. | |
| Sayed, Saquib | psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Voluntarily surrendered medical license in August 2004, after acknowledging he'd relapsed into alcohol abuse. Date convicted: March 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| SCARBOROUGH, KIM ANNA | group home worker | U.S. Maryland |
| Physically abusing and stealing money from mentally disabled patients she was supposed to be caring for. Date convicted: July 20, 1994 | 18 months in prison | |
| Scarborough, Lonnie | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| 10 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud; 10 counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and 1 count of possession (all involving Ritalin prescriptions). Date convicted: October 14, 2010 | 4 years prison on each count, to be served concurrently on probation. | |
| Schaller, James | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Date convicted: September 21, 2011 | Four years probation | |
| SCHAPE-SELF, ROSEMARY | mental health service comptroller | U.S. Washington |
| Embezzlement (Stole over $116,000 from the Olympic Counseling Agency, which was partially funded by the U.S. government. It was revealed at the time of sentencing that she still owed $35,000 in restitution to a former employer - also a counseling center - from a similar 1994 conviction). Date convicted: April 19, 2002 | 21 months prison, 3 years supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $116,461.75. | |
| SCHAPIRA, HENRI J. | psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Operated Adult and Adolescent Psychiatry, P.C., though which he fraudulently billed federal and state health insurance. He also illegally dispensed drugs from his residence. Date convicted: December 15, 1998 | 6 months home confinement and 3 years probation. He agreed to forfeit $80,000 in equity in his home and to pay $240,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations | |
| SCHAUERHAMER, ROBERT A. | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Sexual abuse of a 24-year-old mentally impaired man. Date convicted: August 16, 2001 | 110 days in jail, probation for 10 years, surrender psychologist's license, register as a sex offender and complete out-patient treatment. | |
| Schave, Barbara | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Engaged in sex with a patient. Date convicted: February 2003 | License surrendered. | |
| SCHEMM, PETER | Psychotherapist | U.S. Georgia |
| Contempt of court (twice disregarded orders to report for jury duty in an important trial). Date convicted: Febuary, 2002 | 3 days in jail (to be served from 9-to-5 each day) and $1,000 fine. | |
| SCHILDHAUS, DONALD | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Conspiracy in the fourth degree (tried to involve one of his patients in a conspiracy to provide him with a gun so that he could assist his wife in committing suicide). Date convicted: July 2, 2002 | 90 days prison and 5 years probation. In December 2004, the state of Pennsylvania revoked his license. | |
| SCHMITT, ROBERT JOSEPH | therapist | U.S. Texas |
| Sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl he was counseling during her parents' divorce. Date convicted: August 9, 2001 | 40 years prison (will have to serve 20 years before being eligible for parole). | |
| SCHNEIDER, STEVEN V. | psychologist | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Stealing prescription drugs from a patient. Date convicted: November 1999 | 15 days in jail and 4 years probation | |
| Schneider, David A. | social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Convicted of sexual assault involving a patient. Date convicted: December 13, 2010 | Surrendered social work license. | |
| Schnierow, Bradley John | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| He used drugs in his office, wrote illegal prescriptions for narcotics and had an improper sexual relationship with a patient. In April 2013, the DEA was informed that Schnierow was a "drug user." Investigators found evidence of improper prescribing and diversion of controlled substances and dangerous drugs. He was arrested by police on multiple counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance, and in January 2015 he was convicted on drug charges. He was also cited by the Medical Board for illegally furnishing drugs to others, including addicts; for Practicing Medicine Under the Influence of Narcotic or Narcotics; for Acts of Sexual Abuse, Misconduct or Relations with Patient; for Practicing Medicine While Suspended and for other violations.
Date convicted: February 16, 2016 | License was Surrendered. | |
| Schroder, Kris | psychologist | Australia Victoria |
| Eight offenses including attempting to obtain financial advantage by deception, attempting to pervert the course of justice, and perjury. Date convicted: November 28, 2023 | Four years in prison | |
| Schrumpf, David W. | psychologist | U.S. Maryland |
| One count of child sex abuse and two counts second degree assault Date convicted: November 1, 2011 | 18 years prison | |
| SCHULKIN, FRANK R. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 3, 1979 | 30 days in jail, 3 years probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to pay restitution of $5,300 | |
| SCHULTZ, CHRISTINE | psychiatric nurse | U.S. New York |
| Attempted fourth-degree grand larceny (stole $835 from five patients and collected over $2,000 in bogus overtime pay). Date convicted: July 1, 2003 | 1-year conditional discharge upon payment of restitution of $3,006 (conditonal discharge allowings for release from jail without probation, but requires compliance with conditions set by the court). | |
| Scinta, Amy | social worker | U.S. Virginia |
| Suspension or revocation of professional license. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) | |
| Scioli, Adam D. | psychiatric resident | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Felony violation of the Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act (arrested for selling a potential date-rape drug to an undercover police officer). Date convicted: Circa 2005 | Two months jail and probation until 2010. The state of Pennsylvania suspended his license May 24, 2005. | |
| SCOTT, DAVID | counselor | U.S. Michigan |
| Armed robbery. Also, in June, 1999, Scott was charged with Medicaid insurance fraud, along with 13 other employees, from a substance abuse clinic that Scott co-founded. Date convicted: Circa 1969 to 1999 | 5 to 15 years in prison, which he was serving as of June, 1999 | |
| SCOZZARO, PHILLIP | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Grand Larceny; improper billing Medicaid & Medicare for services. Date convicted: July 27, 1994 | Conditional discharge after pleading guilty and paying $100,000 in restitution | |
| Seidman, Jeffrey | psychiatrist | Canada Toronto, Ontario |
| Sexual abuse of an underage client. Date convicted: Feb 2003 | License revoked. | |
| Seitz, Jay Alfred | Psychologist | U.S. New York |
| He participated in a multi-year insurance fraud scheme. Between 2006 and 2008, He purported to provide psychological services to patients at medical clinics where he signed false treatment notes that were used to generate claims that were submitted to insurance companies for reimbursement. Insurance providers reimbursed over $3 million of claims submitted for patients purportedly, but not actually, treated by Seitz. Date convicted: August 11, 2014 | He was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison followed by one year of supervised release, ordered to pay $2,703,137.89 in restitution and to forfeit $584,089.92 in assets. | |
| Seitz, Jay Alfred | Psychologist | U.S. New York |
| For his March 2014 criminal convictions on Mail Fraud and Health Care Fraud in Manhattan federal court. Date convicted: February 23, 2016 | Surrendered license. | |
| Seltzer, Allan H. | Psychiatrist | Canada Ontario |
| Practicing without a license. He was previously licensed, but left Canada in 2006 to work in another country. In January 2015, he opened a practice but did not re-register. On July 20, 2016, he pleaded guilty to fraud under $5,000 and dispensing a controlled substance. More recently, he was charged with one count of sexual assault and three of fraud arising from an alleged incident March 1, 2016.
Date convicted: July 20, 2016 | He was fined $1,000 and put on one year probation. Faces sexual assault charges. | |
| Seltzer, Alan | Psychiatrist | U.S. Delaware |
| The Medical Board found there is an on-going inability or refusal to improve his practice to ensure that he is practicing in a safe and competent manner: details include that he did not properly secure areas in the building where he stored controlled substances, meds, patient records, and Rx pads; patient files were incomplete; he admitted that a patient�s overdose may have resulted in part from his prescriptions; testified he had been co-dependent in participating in the addiction of some of his patients to controlled substances. Some of the violations were noted by the board as a basis for a previous temporary suspension of his license in June 2010 and subsequent probation. Date convicted: February 3, 2015 | License revoked. | |
| Seltzer, Alan | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Disciplinary action taken against his license to practice medicine on February 3, 2015, by the Delaware Board. Date convicted: July 28, 2015 | License revoked. | |
| Semrau, Lorne | psychologist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Medicaid-Medicare fraud of over $3,000,000. Date convicted: June 17, 2010 | To be sentenced | |
| Semykina, Natalya | psychiatric institute deputy director | CIS Moscow, Russia |
| Used official position to commit fraud (through deception, she and a colleague acquired possession of two psychiatric patients' apartments, which they then sold for approximately US $30,000 each). Date convicted: May 8, 2008 | 10 years prison. | |
| Serednesky, George | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| Dual relationships (other than the therapist-patient relationship, such as business or social) with patients. Date convicted: September 2004 | License revoked. | |
| SERINO, STEPHEN T. | school psychologist | U.S. Indiana |
| 26 counts of child molestation involving both a 14-year-old family friend and a junior high school student. Date convicted: December 13, 2001 | 385 years in jail. | |
| SERRANO, MIGUEL A. BRAVO | prison psychiatrist | U.S. Puerto Rico |
| Sexually abusing 4 women inmates at the prison where he was the medical director. Date convicted: May 19, 1997 | 2 years in jail | |
| Shaffer, Jay Hammond | psychiatrist | U.S. Ohio |
| Engaged in a personal and sexual relationship with a patient. Date convicted: Fall 2005 | License suspended for one year. | |
| SHAH, PANNA | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: September 15, 1992 | 1 to 3 years in jail and fined $54,000 | |
| Shah, Mahir I. | Psychiatrist | U.S. South Carolina |
| Numerous alcohol-related arrests including drunk driving, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct over a 3-year period between February 2011 and February 2014. The Board stated that the sanctions were imposed to protect the life, health, and welfare of the people at large. Date convicted: October 13, 2016 | Suspension, mimimum 1 year. | |
| SHAKTAH, HANAN | therapist | U.S. Illinois |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: November 6, 1998 | 5 years probation, 800 hours community service and ordered to pay $442,124 in restitution | |
| SHAKTAH, THAER | therapist | U.S. Illinois |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: November 6, 1998 | Probation for 5 years; 400 hours in community service and ordered to pay $233,630 in restitution | |
| Shalanda, Guy | mental health aide | U.S. Tennessee |
| Criminal conviction for patient abuse or neglect. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Shamir, David | psychiatrist | Israel |
| Contact with a foreign agent and possession of information with the intent of endangering state security (offered classified information to Iran and the Islamic militant group Hamas). Date convicted: January 17, 2008 | 5 years prison. | |
| SHANKMAN, ANDREW | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: 1998 | 87 months in prison, 3 years probation and 400 hours community service | |
| SHARF, MARY | psychiatrist | U.S. West Virginia |
| Illegally prescribing drugs. Date convicted: May 10, 1996 | 108 months in jail | |
| SHARPE, MARK J. | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: Febuary 22, 2002 | 4 years prison and 6 years probation. | |
| Shaw, Willie | mental health worker | U.S. Tennessee |
| Patient abuse conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Shehadah, Farid | school psychologist | Israel |
| Child molestation (molested a student for over a year, beginning when the boy was 8). Date convicted: October 13, 2007 | 1 year prison. | |
| Sheikh, Sahid | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| Practicing as a doctor without a license Date convicted: February 2004 | Counseling license revoked. | |
| Shelkov, Alexsandr | psychiatrist | Russia |
| Drunk on an airplane, assaulted woman sitting next to him. Date convicted: July 8, 2010 | Six months probation. | |
| Sherman, Forrest | psychiatrist | U.S. Maine |
| Convicted of engaging in sex with a patient. Date convicted: May 20, 2004 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Sherman, Laura K. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| Sherman was reported to the Arizona Board as being impaired while seeing patients on multiple occasions between August 2015 and January 2016 and that she had an ongoing substance abuse problem. A Board-initiated assessment found her to be unsafe to practice. During the investigation, it was noted that Sherman failed to disclose an arrest for driving under the influence that occurred in 2011. Date convicted: December 9, 2016 | Surrendered license. | |
| Sherman, Laura K. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Based on the disciplinary actions taken by the Arizona Medical Board begun in January 2016. Date convicted: August 26, 2016 | Surrendered license. | |
| Sherrill, James Ian | counselor | U.S. Michigan |
| Assault with a dangerous weapon (gun). Date convicted: July 8, 2010 | 30 days jail. | |
| SHERWOOD, REED D. | counselor | Canada |
| Possession of child pornography. Date convicted: August 10, 1998 | 2 years probation | |
| Shilati, Sheila | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| Sexual misconduct with a patient, gross negligence, and unprofessional conduct. An individual contacted Shilati (as Director of Vantage Point, a recovery center) for assistance with alcohol and marriage problems. Eventually, Shilati escalated the relationship with the patient to a sexually intimate one, knowing that her patient was married and had four children. Date convicted: February 3, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| SHIMKUS, JANET | school social worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Disorderly conduct, stemming from a drug case. Date convicted: November 9, 1998 | 90 days in jail and fined $1,000 | |
| SHIRLEY, RUBY | mentally disabled facility employee | U.S. Tennessee |
| Physically assaulting a mentally disabled patient. Date convicted: April 6, 2000 | nearly 1 year of probation, 24 hours community service and fined more than $41,000 | |
| Shirreff, Neil | psychologist | U.S. North Dakota |
| Disorderly conduct (punched a fellow driver [a female] in the face in a "road rage" incident). Date convicted: October 1, 2009 | Ordered to pay fine plus the victim's dental bills. | |
| Shoff, Susan | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Social and sexual relationship with female patient. Date convicted: May 3, 2004 | Surrendered license. | |
| SHOLES, DAVID | substance abuse counselor | U.S. Indianapolis |
| Murdering 3 men and injuring another in a shooting rampage. Date convicted: 1997 | life in prison | |
| SHOOSTER, CHARLES NATHAN | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Mail fraud (billed for psychotherapy sessions that never occurred). Date convicted: Circa 2000 | 6 months home detention and $1,800 restitution. | |
| SHORT, ROBERT E. | social worker | U.S. Ohio |
| Inappropriately touching two 14-year-old girls. Date convicted: October 25, 1995 | 120 days in jail and fined $400 | |
| SHOWALTER, CARL R. | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 8, 1999 | 6 months house arrest; 2 years probation and ordered to pay more than $20,000 in fines and costs | |
| Shukla, Param | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| One count of indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14. Date convicted: January 14, 2004 | 2 years probation. He was excluded from participation in federally-funded health programs (Medicaid, etc.) in November 2004. | |
| SHULTICE, ROBERT | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Illegally prescribing drugs, resulting in the death of a patient. Date convicted: September 22, 2000 | 4 years in jail, 3 years supervised release, fined $25,000 and ordered to pay restitution of $3,885, On September 28, 2001, Shultice was convicted of using intimidation and force in an attempt to influence a witness (Shultice attempted to persuade witnesses to lie on his behalf during his 1999 trial). He was sentenced to 41 months in prison, to run concurrent with his earlier sentence. | |
| Sibanda, Andrew | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Inflicted grievous bodily harm on his estranged wife during a domestic assault. Date convicted: October 6, 2005 | 15 months prison. | |
| Sichel, Deborah | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Used position to gain access to private records of someone who filed a complaint against her husband for sexual abuse.
Date convicted: September 2004 | License suspended 18 months. In December 2004, Sichel was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| SIDHU, SAMARJEET "SAM" | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: September 19, 1996 | 3 years in prison | |
| Sidlar, Athena | psychiatric aide | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Reckless endangerment (gave a psychiatric patient nails and showed her how to swallow them, which she did). Date convicted: October 9, 2009 | Two years probation | |
| SIEGEL, ANDREW | psychiatric patient broker | U.S. Florida |
| Sending clients to psychiatric facilities in return for money so the facility could get access to the patients' insurance. Date convicted: May 12, 2000 | 2 years in jail | |
| Siegel, Joel L. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: Nov 2004. | License revoked. | |
| SIERRA, ISRAEL | substance abuse counselor | U.S. New Jersey |
| Election fraud. Date convicted: January 13, 1994 | 60 days in jail | |
| Silverman, Ricky | psychologist | U.S. New Hampshire |
| Issued a custody-related evaluation which "lacked substantive and procedural consistency, detail and uniformity," "failed to adequately document his analysis or interpretation of the data collected," and "failed to document the reconciliation of inconsistent data and indicate the limitations of his interpretations and conclusions," among other things.
Inadequate analysis and documentation in evaluations of patients. Date convicted: June 2004 | Surrendered license until he complies with requirement imposed by New Hampshire Board of Registration of Psychologists (license has since be reinstated). | |
| SIMMS, KEVIN | mental health worker | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Molesting a teenage patient. Date convicted: December 7, 1999 | 9 to 23 months prison | |
| SIMON, JOHN | group home worker | U.S. Louisiana |
| Sex crimes against 3 mentally retarded patients. Date convicted: January 24, 2000 | 3 years in prison and 2 years house arrest | |
| SIMONTON, TOLLIVER J. | former school counselor | U.S. Missouri |
| Second degree murder (of his 8-year-old son, by asphyxiation). Date convicted: February 13, 2002 | Life in prison with the possibility of parole. | |
| Sinvany-Nubel, Aviva | psychiatric nurse | U.S. New Jersey |
| Misconduct: sent letters to patients that were abusive, demeaning, etc. Date convicted: February 2005 | License suspended for 3 years. | |
| Skarlinski, Michael F. | Psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| While employed as a contract psychologist at a facility, he performed intake with regard to patients provided psychological services at the facility. During his employment, he knowingly improperly calculated test scores. For example, he placed rating numbers on pediatric case summaries that did not match the test results present, he did not unseal test packets that had to be unsealed to be properly scored and he would write down scores without taking the time to properly score the material. The psychology board found that he made "misleading, deceptive, untrue or fraudulent representations in the practice of psychology." Date convicted: February 27, 2017 | License suspended for a minimum of one year, civil penalty of $1,000 | |
| Skidmore, Amy | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Unknown. Date convicted: January 18, 2005 | License revoked. In September 2005, Skidmore was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Skloss, Belinda | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: February 11, 2010 | 180 days jail, $43,000 restitution. | |
| SKODNECK, RICHARD P. | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Medicare insurance fraud. In 1998, he agreed to pay $490,000 to settle civil charges of Medicare insurance fraud. Date convicted: March 1996 | 46 months in federal prison and fined $1 million | |
| SKOVSAGER, BJARNE | psychologist | Denmark Copenhagen |
| Numerous severe sexual abuse of three boys. Date convicted: July 24, 2002 | 6 year unconditional prison sentence; revocation of right to treat children under 18 and ordered to pay damage compensation of 60,000 kroners (approx. US $8,900) to each victim. | |
| Slaymaker (Richards), Rhian | psychiatric nurse | UK Wales |
| False accounting (stole nearly £36,000 from the National Health Service [government-funded medical program of the United Kingdom] by submitting 192 false time sheets claiming wages for hours not actually worked). Date convicted: July 20, 2004 | 9 months jail. In October 2005, Slaymaker was struck off the nursing register (comparable to having one's license revoked). | |
| Slonka, Gerald Francis | Psychiatrist | U.S. Missouri |
| Failed to file a state tax return and/or pay state tax liabilities.
Date convicted: September 11, 2016 | Suspended effective September 17, 2016 and reinstated November 16, 2016. | |
| SMITH, ARNETT C. | mental retardation programs chief | U.S. Washington D.C. |
| Conflict of interest and conspiracy charges for his involvement in sending mentally retarded clients to a psychologist who was defrauding federal health insurance. Date convicted: December 12, 2000 | 46 months in prison | |
| SMITH, EDWARD | psychiatric hospital orderly | U.S. New Jersey |
| Helping a killer to escape from the psychiatric hospital where he worked. Date convicted: July 1996 | 2 years probation | |
| SMITH, KENNETH | mental health/mental retardation center trustee | U.S. Texas |
| Sexually assaulting a mentally retarded client. He had a previous conviction for sexual assault in Alaska. Date convicted: Circa 1991 | 120 days in jail and 10 years supervised probation | |
| SMITH, ROBERT DOUGLAS | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Sexually abusing a female patient. Date convicted: April 1998 | 4 months in a detention center | |
| SMITH, SELWYN | psychiatrist | Canada Ottawa |
| A fraud conviction. Date convicted: January 3, 1990 | 9 months in jail to be served on weekends and nights | |
| SMITH, THEODORE | psychiatrist | U.S. Georgia |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 11, 1995 | 2 years in jail and 8 years probation and $117,858 in restitution | |
| SMITH, WILBURN | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: March 22, 1988 | 30 days in jail or complete 200 hours of community service | |
| Smith, Paul | psychiatric nurse | England |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: February 10, 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Smith, Richard A. | counselor | U.S. New York |
| Professional license revoked or suspended. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Smith, Marcia | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid program-related conviction. Date convicted: September 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Smith, Kristi M. | counselor | U.S. Missouri |
| Medicaid fraud Date convicted: July 19, 2011 | To be sentenced | |
| Smith, Bryan | Psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| Had a history of alcohol and controlled substance abuse: In January 2010, Smith surrendered his medical license after alcohol was smelled on his breath at work, and his license was indefinitely suspended on May 21, 2010. After violating the conditions of a January 2011 reinstatement, it was again indefinitely suspended on September 7, 2011. In March 2015, Smith was found wandering on a road in Cary N.C. with controlled substance in his pocket that belonged to one of his patients. Lab tests revealed that Smith had ingested alcohol, amphetamines and benzodiazepines which violated the conditions that had been put on his license.
Date convicted: March 3, 2016 | Indefinitely suspended. | |
| Smith, Craig A. | Psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| In June 2011, Smith began treating a married female patient, and in June 2014 stopped charging the patient for treatment but continued treatments and at the same time began a personal relationship. He was cited for negligence, incompetence and sexual misconduct. Date convicted: March 23, 2017 | License suspended for a minimum period of one year and fined $3,000. | |
| SMOLEV, BARRY A. | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: March 20, 1995 | 6 months imprisonment in a halfway house | |
| SMYKAY, STEVEN | therapist | U.S. Texas |
| Sexually assaulting a woman while she was hypnotized. Date convicted: May 20 1996 | 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution | |
| SNYDER, CHARLES | suicide hotline counselor | U.S. California |
| Attempting to kill a man he'd counseled. Snyder later hung himself while serving his sentence. Date convicted: November 19, 1991 | life in prison | |
| Soderman, Jill | social worker | U.S. New Jersey |
| Practiced on a suspended license. Date convicted: June 24, 2003 | License suspended 5 years, ordered to pay a $20,000 civil penalty, $5,000 in investigation costs and $3,000 in attorney fees. | |
| SOKOLSKI, KENNETH | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Medi-Cal insurance fraud. Date convicted: August 28, 1996 | 3 years probation and ordered to pay $24,000 in restitution | |
| Solis, Rafael | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Three counts of providing false statements relating to a health care matter, stemming from Solis' involvement in the operations of Synergy Counseling, a business which was supposed to provide group psychotherapy to elderly patients. However, the federal government presented a case that such therapy never occurred and what was billed as mental health services was no more than adult day care. Date convicted: October 8, 2010 | 5 years probation. | |
| Sompur, Vasanthkumar Sushil Kumar | Psychiatrist | U.S. Ohio |
| In November 2013, he was disciplined by the Ohio Medical Board for making falsely fraudulent and deceptive statements in attempting to secure his Ohio medical license. There were negative remarks in his psychiatric training history that were not disclosed. On July 2014, Vasanthkumar withdrew his application in lieu of further formal disciplinary proceedings. Date convicted: August 13, 2014 | Withdrawal of application to practice in Ohio. | |
| Sompur, Vasanthkumar Sushil Kumar | Psychiatrist | U.S. Alabama |
| Unprofessional conduct in his submitting false, misleading, or untruthful information to the Alabama Board. There were deficencies noted in his medical training and education that related to his competence and qualification to practice medicine that were not disclosed. Date convicted: April 16, 2014 | Denied license in Alabama. | |
| Sompur, Vasanthkumar Sushil Kumar | Psychiatrist | U.S. Utah |
| He engaged in unprofessional conduct when he misrepresented information in his December 16, 2013 application for renewal of his physician license with respect to other disciplinary action taken against his license in other jurisdictions. Date convicted: June 23, 2015 | Revoked his Utah License. | |
| Sompur, Vasanthkumar Sushil Kumar | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Sompur Vasanthkumar's California license was revoked based on the actions and discipline in the other states with regard to his false statements and misrepresentations in order to obtain licensing. Date convicted: March 3, 2016 | California license revoked. | |
| Sonksen, Larry | marriage counselor | U.S. Michigan |
| Maliciously using a phone line (Sonksen placed at least four calls to a client, in which he lewdly described erotic acts he wished to perform on her). Date convicted: June 12, 2008 | 6 months jail with all but 1 month suspended on condition that he completes 18 months probation; 30 days community service. | |
| Sosa-Roche, Jose Antonio | Psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| In May of 2016, the medical board determined that Sosa-Roche's substance abuse made him unsafe to practice medicine. Sosa-Roche tested positive for amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and cannabis in a June 2016 drug test. He had previously participated in a remedial drug addiction program throughout most of the period from May 2006 to December 2014.
Date convicted: August 5, 2016 | Surrendered License. | |
| Southall, Paul | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Sex with a patient. Date convicted: June 2, 2010 | 15 months prison. | |
| Spanberger, Peter G. | psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Practiced without a license. Date convicted: February 20, 2004 | License suspended. | |
| Spanier, Cynthia Ann | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Inability to practice with reasonable safety and skill to the public. Date convicted: August 8, /2003 | License suspended indefinitely. | |
| Spaulding, Bradley | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| "Being a habitual use of alcohol, or being dependent on or a habitual user of narcotics, barbiturate, amphetamines, hallucinogens or other drugs having similar effects or having a psychiatric condition which impairs his ability to practice," according to the statement of charges issued by the New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct. Spaulding wrote prescriptions for the painkiller Tramadol in his wife's name then filled the prescriptions and consumed the drugs without medical justification. Date convicted: April 11, 2005. | License suspended indefinitely but for no less than 12 months. In September 2005, Spaulding was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Spector, Paul J. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Sexual contact with patient and habitual use and dependence on narcotic drugs. Date convicted: November 7, 2003 | License suspended for an indefinite period of no less than 15 months. On May 20, 2004, Spector was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (such as Medicaid). | |
| SPENCER, FREDERICK | counselor | U.S. Missouri |
| Raping and sodomizing 2 patients. Date convicted: Circa October 1999 | 15 years in prison | |
| Spicer, John G. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Sexual relations with a patient. Date convicted: January 1, 2004 | License surrendered. | |
| SPIEGEL, DONALD E. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Making sexual advances to an undercover officer in a public restroom. Date convicted: February 1997 | 30 days community service | |
| STACEY, KIMBERLY NICOLE | counselor | U.S. North Carolina |
| Having sex with a teenager at the facility where she worked. Date convicted: May 3, 1999 | probation and fired from her job | |
| STACEY, MARCIA | drug counseling clinic executive | U.S. Michigan |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: February 25, 1999 | 1 year probation and ordered to pay $560 in fines and restitution | |
| STACY, DANIEL F. | marriage family/child counselor | U.S. California |
| Mail fraud (submitted false health care claims to a United States Department of Defense insurance program). Date convicted: January 4, 2002 | 12 months and 1 day incarceration, 3 years supervised release and fine of $100. | |
| Stanch, James M. | psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Distribution and possession of a Schedule II controlled substance and distribution and possession of narcotic drugs. Date convicted: June 30, 2006 | 57 months prison for each conviction, to run concurrently (i.e., 57 months total). | |
| Stanko, Kenneth M. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Pleaded guilty to charges of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, and health care fraud, both felonies. Date convicted: January 20, 2017 | Guilty, sentencing scheduled for May 24. | |
| Stanton, Jamie Lee | counselor | U.S. Wyoming |
| Suspension or revocation of professional license. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| STARKEY, DARLENE | Counseling center president | U.S. West Virginia |
| Embezzlement from a federally subsidized program and Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: February 19, 2003 | 1 year and 1 day prison and ordered to pay back $175,000 | |
| STARKS, ANGELA F. | social worker | U.S. Florida |
| Referring pregnant women to a drug rehab program in exchange for money. Date convicted: July 30, 1996 | 6 months house arrest and 2 + years probation | |
| Stauber, Paul A. | social worker | U.S. Florida |
| Grand theft Date convicted: August 23, 2010 | Unknown | |
| STEBER, RICHARD F. | youth counselor | U.S. Wisconsin |
| His fourth and fifth drunk-driving convictions. Date convicted: February 26, 1999 | 17 months in jail | |
| STEELE, JANIS | therapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Having sex with a male teenage patient. Date convicted: August 28, 1991 | 2 years probation and restricted from providing therapy to anyone under 18 | |
| Stein, Martin H. | psychiatrist | U.S. DC |
| Being a danger to public health (as exemplified by him signing a death certificate without doing an examination for cause of death); pattern of negligence. Date convicted: October 2002 | License revoked. | |
| Steinberg, Stuart | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Negligence and incompetence. Date convicted: January 2004 | License suspended for 5 years. | |
| Steiniger, William | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Four counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to impede and impair the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Date convicted: February 18, 2011 | 42 months prison. | |
| Stephens, Kenneth G. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| In October of 2014 the Arizona Medical Board issued an Emergency Order of Suspension charging Stephens with possession, distribution and use of schedule drugs and narcotics. On January 1, 2015, his suspension was lifted with conditions and restrictions. He was subsequently found to non-compliant with those conditions including a positive test for opiates and on June 6, 2016, his license was again suspended. On December 2, 2016, the suspension was lifted on the condition that he complete continuing medical education courses in Prescribing and Boundaries. Date convicted: June 16, 2016 | Suspended on an emergency basis. | |
| Stephens, Kenneth G. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Louisiana |
| While serving as Medical Director of a facility, Stephens failed to exercise appropriate oversight of medical staff and thereby enabled the unauthorized practice of medicine. He authorized unqualified staff to sign his name on prescriptions when he was not physically present in the clinic and left pre-signed prescriptions in the clinic. He also prescribed controlled substances to patients without documenting an appropriate medical justification and prescribed controlled substance medications to family members without maintaining adequate documentation in their medical record. His license had been placed on probation 3 years with conditions and a requirement to a pay $3,000 fine. Date convicted: September 2, 2016 | Summary Suspension (immediate). | |
| Stephens, Kenneth G. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| On July 30, 2015, he signed an agreement not to practice. On August 22, 2016 he signed a resignation request. The Board formally accepted his resignation on September 8, 2016. Date convicted: September 8, 2016 | Resignation and Surrender of license. | |
| STEPHENSON-SNELL, HEATHER | Psychotherapist | UK Manchester, England |
| Murder (Stephenson-Snell had set out Halloween night in a "Scream" mask and "ghost" cloak to kill the woman who was involved with her ex-lover. When the woman would not open her door, a neighbor approached to intervene and Stephenson-Snell shot him dead with the sawed-off shotgun she had hidden beneath her cloak). Date convicted: September 21, 2004 | Jailed for life with recommendation that she serve a minimum of 22 years. | |
| Stepp, Mervin Leroy | counselor | U.S. Washington |
| First- and second-degree child molestation (engaged in sexual contact with one child under the age of 12 and another under the age of 14). Suspension or revocation of professional license. Date convicted: January 20, 2005 | License revoked. Stepp's criminal sentence information is unknown. In October 2005, Stepp was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| STERNBERG, DAVID E. | psychiatrist | U.S. Kansas |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: May 1998 | 5 years in jail and ordered to pay $926,940 in restitution | |
| STERNBERG, BARBARA | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Grand larceny (filed claims for treatments that were never rendered to members of a private health insurance plan). Date convicted: November 13, 2002 | Time served (spent 28 days in jail prior to conviction and sentencing) and 5 years probation. | |
| STEWART, JEFFREY E. | residential care facility owner | U.S. Oregon |
| Stealing money from mentally disabled residents where he worked. Date convicted: December 30, 1991 | 1 year in prison, and 8 months on work release following prison | |
| Stewart, John (see entry on John Orpin) | ||
Date convicted: | ||
| STEYER, SHARON LEWIS | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: August, 2000 | 10 years probation; ordered to pay $362 in court costs, $3,500 in prosecution costs, $28,478 investigative costs; $2,500 fine and 250 hours community service. | |
| Stilwell, Jill Marie | counseling center operator | U.S. Missouri |
| Criminal conviction related to Medicaid program.
Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| STOKES, JOHN | psychiatric hospital administrator | U.S. Ohio |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: Circa 1997 | 5 years probation including 6 months of home detention | |
| STOKES, PERRY | group home employee | U.S. Tennessee |
| Physical assault of a patient. Date convicted: March 16, 2000 | 18 months in jail (suspended and to be served as probatiion), 80 hours community service and ordered to pay $436 in court costs | |
| Stone, Marvin | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Aggravated promotion of prostitution (charging a fee for patients to have sex with him and two female employees under the guise of "sex therapy"). Date convicted: July 9, 2001 | Four years probation during which he may not practice sex therapy, 200 hours community service and $1,000 fine. | |
| Stone, William Tyler | Psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| From January 1, 2016 to June 12, 2016, Stone signed in excess of 400 certifications recommending the medical use of marijuana for conditions other than cancer. Those actions fall below generally accepted standards of medical practice and lack medical necessity. Date convicted: July 19, 2016 | Suspension of medical license. | |
| STOVER, SUSAN T. | mentally disabled home employee | U.S. Virginia |
| Embezzlement of mentally disabled residents' funds.. Date convicted: May 5, 1999 | 5 years in prison (suspended) and 5 years probation | |
| Stowell, Jeremy A. | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: May 6, 1994 | 6 months of electronically monitored home detention, to perform 360 hours of community service and ordered to pay nearly $42,500 in fines and restitution. In 2005, Stowell surrendered his Virginia medical license on charges that he improperly prescribed narcotics to addicts and other patients. | |
| Strand, Glenn | psychiatrist | U.S. Washington |
| Unprofessional conduct. Strand was found to have diagnosed 78% of his patients as having "bipolar disorder." In a deposition given during a legal proceeding, Strand admitted diagnosis a patient as bipolar for the purpose of enabling the patient to remain in the state-funded mental health system and receive treatment. Strand was further found to have accepted prescription drugs from patients which he then dispensed to other patients. He was also found to have record keeping failures with regard to ten patients.
Date convicted: May 10, 1999 | License suspended indefinitely. On May 20, 2004, Strand was excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Strauss, SharonJudith | Psychologist | U.S. Illinois |
| Failure to file and/or pay Illinois state income taxes. Date convicted: November 25, 2016 | Suspended. | |
| STROHLIN, LLEWELLYN | mental health center staff member | U.S. Missouri |
| Multiple counts of felony child abuse (involving residents of the center where he worked). Date convicted: Circa 2002 | 12 years prison. | |
| STRUBA, ROBERT | child psychiatrist | U.S. Maine |
| Aggravated assault (pummelled his female companion in the face) Date convicted: February 12, 2004 | 5 years prison with all but 6 months suspended and 4 years probation. | |
| Stubblefield, Beverly | Psychologist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Health Care Fraud. She was involved in a 2016 fraudulent psychological testing scheme that preyed upon Medicare recipients living in nursing homes. Stubblefield worked as a clinical psyhologist for two facilities that billed Medicare for tests that were not medically necessary. She repeatedly tested the same nursing home residents even though some were incapacitated and could not meaningfully participate in testing. From 2010 through 2015, Stubblefield and another psychologist who worked with her were responsible for more than $5.6 million in fraudulent claims. Date convicted: March 2, 2017 | 30 months in jail followed by 3 years' supervised release. Ordered to pay $2,181,378.60 to Medicare in restitution. | |
| Stubblefield, Beverly | Psychologist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Violations of Ethical Standards. (Followed her conviction for Healthcare Fraud in September 2016). Date convicted: January 20, 2017 | voluntarily surrendered and relinquished her license. | |
| Stubblefield, Beverly | Psychologist | U.S. Mississippi |
| Convicted for Healthcare Fraud in September 2016.
Date convicted: December 5, 2016 | Revoked. | |
| Stubley,, Alan John | psychiatrist | Australia |
| Six counts of rape, three counts of indecent assault and one count attempted rape, all involving patients, dating back to the mid-1970s. Date convicted: March 12, 2009 | 10 years in jail, eligible for parole in 8 years. | |
| Stull, Dana D. | psychiatrist | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Substance abuse and lying about it on state licensure applications. Stull wrote prescriptions for painkillers for her housekeeper and then dressed up as the housekeeper and picked up the prescriptions herself. Date convicted: September 2003 | License suspended. | |
| Sugar, Barry | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Criminal threats and willful infliction of corporal injury on a spouse; 2010 conviction for DUI; 2009 conviction for reckless driving Date convicted: July 19, 2011 | 2 years prison | |
| Sullivan, James | school psychologist | U.S. Connecticut |
| Sexually assaulted a mentally handicapped woman in a home where he worked part time. Date convicted: February 7, 2005 | Five years in prison, suspended after 18 months; three years' probation; and 150 hours of community service. | |
| Sullivan, Lynn | psychologist | U.S. North Dakota |
| Driving under the influence Date convicted: June 21, 2011 | 30 days, suspended, $500 fine | |
| Sullivan, Maura | Psychologist | U.S. California |
| In July 2015, she was arrested for driving Under the Influence. Before beginning a drive from Chico to Sacramento, she drank three to four glasses of wine. She also drank wine in her car while driving. She then rear-ended a vehicle causing pain and injury to the driver and three passengers in the vehicle. The officer on the scene observed she had red, bloodshot, watery eyes and had a dark red tongue. Sullivan admitted to drinking approximately three glasses of red wine while driving. A breath test showed her blood acohol level to be 0.23%. In October 2015, she entered a plea of no contest to a misdemeanor of driving with a blood alcohol level of .08% or above. The psychology board disciplined her because she was convicted of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and duties of a licensed psychologist and because she used alcohol in a manner dangerous to herself or others. Date convicted: January 24, 2017 | License Surrendered | |
| Sunderland, Pearson "Trey" III | Chief of geriatric psychiatry | U.S. Maryland |
| Conflict of interest (Pearson, then-Chief of the geriatric psychiatry branch of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, improperly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed payments from a drug manufacturer while supervising government-sponsored research with the same company). Date convicted: December 22, 2006 | 2 years probation, 400 hours community service and restitution of $300,000. | |
| SURPRIS, GUY | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: January 6, 1992 | Pleaded guilty to Grand Larceny on the eve of trial and agreed to pay $35,000 in restitution | |
| Sutton, Curtis R. | counselor | U.S. Utah |
| Sutton came under investigation by the state Division for
unprofessional conduct.
Date convicted: May 25, 2004 | Sutton voluntarily surrendered his license while under investigation. In March 2005, he was Excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| SWANGO, MICHAEL J. | doctor and psychiatric resident | U.S. New York |
| Killing a 19-year-old girl; the 1993 murder of 3 patients at the New York Veterans Affairs Hospital; the non-fatal poisonings of 5 paramedics. Date convicted: October 18, 2000 | Life in prison with parole after 20 years (the 19-year-old girl ), life in prison without parole (for the 1993 murders) 5 years in prison (in 1998 for the paramedics) | |
| Swanston, Melvon | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Insurance fraud (billed the Liberty Mutual insurance company for psychotherapy sessions that never occurred). Date convicted: August 1, 2005 | Restitution of $3,677.47 | |
| SWART, RICHARD | psychologist | U.S. Utah |
| Sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy. Date convicted: Circa 1994 | Jail for 1 to 16 years | |
| Syed, Naimetulla (Naimet) Ahmed | Psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| The U.S. government and the State of Connecticut filed civil claims against Syed arising from Syed's improper billing of psychotherapy services from July 2009 through December 2013 allowing Syed to receive more reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid than he was entitled to receive. Date convicted: May 13, 2016 | To pay $401,866 as the amount owed from his overcharges and forfeit an additional $20,776 in funds not yet received. | |
| Syed, Naimetulla (Naimet) Ahmed | Psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| In September 2013, The Connecticut Medical Examining Board found him guilty of illegally billing the Connecticut Department of Social Services for medical visits in 2010 which did not occur. And also for failing to comply with the continuing medical education (CME) requirements. Date convicted: September 17, 2013 | Fined $3,500; received a reprimand; and 1-year probation | |
| Syed, Naimetulla (Naimet) Ahmed | Psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Stemming from the Connecticut Board's discipline for illegally billing and failing to comply with continuing medical education requirements. Date convicted: July 21, 2016 | Precluded from practicing medicine in New York State effective 07/29/2016. (Revocation). | |
| Taggert, William Blake | Psychiatrist | U.S. Connecticut |
| He actively participated in the submitting of false claims to Medicaid by a clinic for which he had been the medical director. Date convicted: May 24, 2016 | Agreed not to renew his license/Surrender. Taggart paid $30,000 to settle a civil suit filed by the state. | |
| Taggert, William Blake | Psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Based on the Connecticut Discipline. Date convicted: September 1, 2016 | Suspended, agreed not to renew after expiration. | |
| Tallichet, Rene William | psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| In 1993 Tallichet displayed misconduct in carrying on the practice of psychology, engaged in a dual relationship and/or sexual intimacies with a client and engaged in unprofessional conduct with a client. Date convicted: June 17, 2004 | License suspended for a minimum of 4 years with no less than 1 year to be served actively. | |
| Tangredi, Raymond P. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Oregon |
| The Oregon Med Board found that Tangredi engaged in unprofessional or dishonorable conduct -- gross or repeated negligence. This follows an earlier Interim Stipulated Order of Oregon Med Board on July 2, 2015 wherein Tangredi withdrew from practice. Date convicted: October 6, 2016 | License is "retired" while he is under investigation. | |
| Tangredi, Raymond P. | Psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Based on Interim Stipulated Order of Oregon Med Board of July 2, 2015 wherein Tangredi withdrew from practice. Date convicted: July 2, 2015 | California license "Canceled" and inactive. | |
| Tangredi, Raymond P. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Washington |
| Based on the Oregon Med Board Discipline. Date convicted: November 3, 2016 | License surrendered. | |
| Tarboro, Gerald | counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Conspiracy to distribute, Distribution of a controlled substance and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance (cocaine and crack cocaine). Date convicted: June 12, 2009 | 15 years prison and 5 years supervised release. | |
| TASHJIAN, JAMES | psychiatrist. | U.S. Michigan |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: December, 1988 | 2 years probation and fined $6,000 | |
| Taub, Harry Evan | Psychiatrist | U.S. North Carolina |
| After a history of discipline related to substance abuse beginning in 2003, he surrendered his North Carolina medical license in August of 2008 when he was informed he was being investigated for obtaining controlled substances by prescription fraud. The Board determined that he was unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety. Date convicted: March 31, 2009 | Indefinitely Suspended, effective August 22, 2008. | |
| Taub, Harry Evan | Psychiatrist | U.S. Colorado |
| As a result of deficiency in documenting his prescribing to three adolescent psychiatric patients, his Colorado license was place on 5-year probation in 2013. He was required to abstain from alcohol and any habit-forming or controlled substance. In 2015, he violated the restriction against alcohol and drug use. Date convicted: March 2, 2016 | Ordered to relinquish his license for a period of at least 2 years. | |
| TAYLOR, GARY | psychiatric nurse | U.K. South Yorkshire |
| Child pornography and sexual assault of a teenage boy. Date convicted: March 18, 1999 | 2 1/2 years in jail | |
| TAYLOR, JAMES A. | psychiatrist. | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Bludgeoning a female psychiatrist with a crowbar. Date convicted: September 4, 1997 | 6 to 12 years in state prison | |
| TAYLOR, ROBERT DARRELL | drug counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Insurance fraud and representing himself as a licensed counselor. Date convicted: February 9, 2000 | 130 years in prison | |
| Taylor, Steve | psychiatrist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Attempted possession of child pornography. Date convicted: April 13, 2011 | 2 years prison. | |
| Taylor, Teresa Maria | counselor | U.S. Colorado |
| Suspension or revocation of professional license. Date convicted: October 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Taylor, Michael J. | Psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Failed to maintain appropriate medical records for several patients between 2009 and 2015. Date convicted: April 8, 2016 | Surrendered and ordered to pay $5,000 Civil Penalty. | |
| Teal, John | Psychologist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud in September 2016 for his involvement in a fraudulent psychological testing scheme that preyed upon Medicare recipients living in nursing homes. Teal created false documents and facilitated the submission of fraudulent claims to Medicare for psychological services purportedly rendered but which were not medically necessary and/or not provided.
Date convicted: February 23, 2017 | To serve 2 years in jail, followed by 3 years supervised release (conditions imposed) and ordered to pay $3,505,137.10 in restitution. Excluded from participating in Medicare Plans. | |
| Teal, John | Psychologist | U.S. Louisiana |
| Based on September 2016 Health Care Fraud conviction for submission of fraudulent claims to Medicare.
Date convicted: December 5, 2016 | Voluntary Surrender of license. | |
| Teal, John | Psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Based on September 2016 Health Care Fraud conviction for submission of fraudulent claims to Medicare.
Date convicted: February 8, 2017 | Voluntary Relinquishment. | |
| Teal, John | Psychiatrist | U.S. Mississippi |
| December 2, 2016 MS U.S. Based on September 2016 Health Care Fraud conviction for submission of fraudulent claims to Medicare.
Date convicted: December 2, 2016 | License revoked. | |
| Teal, John | Psychologist | U.S. Alabama |
| Based on September 2016 Health Care Fraud conviction for submission of fraudulent claims to Medicare. Date convicted: March 10, 2017 | License revoked. | |
| Tennison, Terry Ray | school psychologist | U.S. Texas |
| Criminal conviction for public indecency. Date convicted: June 25, 2004 | Two years probation and $2,000 fine. Tennison's license was revoked in February 2005. | |
| TESCHKE, GERD C | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Struck and killed a pedestrian with his car. Teschke was on probation for tax evasion at the time. He fled before being taken into custody. Date convicted: November 5, 1998 | 4 months in jail on a probation revocation | |
| Thayer, David L. | Psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Pleaded guilty in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court to charges of sexually assaulting some of his female patients. Nine alleged victims came forward, saying Thayer sexually assaulted them or touched them inappropriately.
Date convicted: November 2, 2016 | Ordered to serve 6 months in jail. | |
| Thayer, David L. | Psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Sexual misconduct including actions for which he was convicted in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court.
Date convicted: June 16, 2016 | License revoked. Fined $25,000, to be paid before any reinstatement. | |
| Theer, Michelle | psychologist | U.S. North Carolina |
| First-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder (Theer conspired with a lover to kill her husband). Date convicted: December 3, 2004 | Life in prison | |
| Theroux, John Francis | psychiatrist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| 66 counts of possession of child pornography Date convicted: June 12, 2012 | 2 years on county intermediate punishment program, must register as sex offender for life | |
| THIEL, JAMES | psychiatrist. | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Sexual exploitation of several female patients. Date convicted: June 28, 2000 | 4 years in jail and 10 years probation | |
| THOMPSON, DENNIS | mental health employee | U.S. Tennessee |
| Sexual and physical assault of a patient. Date convicted: June 17, 1997 | 30 days in jail and nearly a year of probation | |
| THOMPSON, ROBERT | psychologist | U.S. Mississippi |
| Felony abuse of a vulnerable adult (related to the death of a patient who died of asphyxiation while being restrained). Date convicted: August 2001 | 5 years in prison with all but 18 months suspended. | |
| Thompson, Elaine | social worker | U.S. Ohio |
| Failure to report child abuse or neglect (failed to report to proper authorities that children she was counseling were being forced to sleep in cages). Date convicted: April 10, 2007 | 5 years probation, 500 hours community service, pay $2,250 in fines and surrender social work license for 5 years. | |
| Thompson, Sara | counselor | U.S. Illinois |
| Aggravated criminal sexual abuse (sexually abused a teenage girl who was a resident of the facility where Thompson was employed). Date convicted: June 30, 2008 | 30 months probation and sex offender treatment. | |
| Thompson, Greg | counselor | U.S. Indiana |
| Drunk driving. Date convicted: December 16, 2009 | 363 days probation. | |
| THORKELSON, JASON ERIC | psychology technician | U.S. Utah |
| Second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse and third-degree felony forcible sodomy (molestation of three juvenile patients at the state facility where he worked and sexual assault of a high-school girl in a park). Date convicted: April 25, 2002 | Two prison terms of 1-to-15 years and two terms of up to 5 years, to run consecutively. | |
| THRASHER, ROBERT LEE | therapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Sexually assaulting a woman and teenage girl he was counseling. Date convicted: September 4, 1991 | 16 years in prison | |
| Tillery, James "Cliff" | psychotherapist | U.S. Georgia |
| sexual assault by a practitioner of psychotherapy.
Date convicted: June 21, 2010 | 2 years prison, 8 years probation and must register as a sex offender. | |
| Ting, Benoit Yang | psychiatrist | France |
| Implanted false memories Date convicted: June 13, 2012 | Fines totaling $252,000 | |
| Tinhorn, Albert | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Failed to disclosed to Arizona licensing authorities multiple arrests and convictions, prior substance abuse treatment and disciplinary action by his employer. Information provided by his employer established that Tinhorn was unable to practice safely and competently. Date convicted: January 7, 2005 | Counselor license revoked; master social worker application denied and $500 penalty. In August 2005, Tinhorn was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Tolar, Michelle Leigh | counselor | U.S. Colorado |
| Sexual contact with a 16-year old male resident of the treatment center where she worked. Date convicted: June 14, 2007 | 4 months jail and 10 years probation. | |
| TOLENTINO, GUSTAVO | general practitioner and psychotherapist | Canada |
| Government insurance fraud Date convicted: Circa 2000 | A 12 month conditional sentence and repaid $55,000 | |
| Tondoneh, Aiah | psychiatric nurse | UK |
| Murder Date convicted: May 2011 | 21-1/2 years prison | |
| TOPEL, LISA ANN | mental health center nurse | U.S. Missouri |
| Felony child abuse (involving a resident of the center where she worked). Date convicted: Circa 2002 | 5 years prison. | |
| Torres, Carlos F. | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Felony course of sexual conduct against a child. Date convicted: October 16, 2007 | 6 months custody and home confinement and 5 years probation. | |
| Tosti, Donald | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Possession of child pronography Date convicted: February 6, 2012 | 8 years prison and $50,000 restitution | |
| Towegishig, Leo | Drug and Sex Abuse Counselor | Canada Ontario |
| Sex with two young girls. Date convicted: April 1, 2007 | 5 years prison. Towegishig appealed. On May 20, 2008, the Ontario Court of Appeals reduced his sentence by one year. | |
| Towndrow, Robert | psychiatrist | Australia New South Wales |
| Sexual improprieties with two patients (one under guise of treatment). Date convicted: March 2004 | Banned from practice for five years. | |
| TOWNSEND, TED | residential care worker | U.S. Mississippi |
| Physically abusing a mental patient Date convicted: August 1, 1996 | 3 years in jail (all but 30 days suspended) and fined $1,000 | |
| TRAHMS, ROBERT GEORGE | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Defrauding several government-fund health care programs. Date convicted: September 18, 1997 | 120 days in jail, 3 years supervised probation and ordered to pay over $23,000 in fines and restitution | |
| Traverso, Joseph | psychiatrist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Criminal sexual contact and false swearing (coerced a female patient to undress and masturbate in his presence). Date convicted: January 16, 2004 | License placed on four years probation. In September 2005, Traverso was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| TREMEL, JEAN-PIERRE | Psychotherapist | France Dijon |
| Rape and sexual attacks on vulnerable persons (both victims were patients). Date convicted: October, 2002 | 10 years prison. | |
| TREMOGLIE, DAVID | therapist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Posing as a U.S. licensed psychiatrist and illegally dispensing drugs. Date convicted: April 1, 1999 | 37 months in jail and ordered to repay $21,616 | |
| TREXIER, JEAN-YVES | psychiatric hospital director | France Paris |
| Sexual harrassment of three female assistants (co-workers). Date convicted: July 9, 2002 | 10-month suspended prison sentence. | |
| Tronsgard, David | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| According to documents of the Ohio Board of Psychology, Tronsgard engaged in sexually intimate, personal and financial relationship with a female patient concurrently and immediately following the termination of a professional psychological relationship with the patient and the patient's minor child. Date convicted: May 31, 2005 | License surrendered, deemed a revocation. | |
| Trottier, Marianne | counselor | U.S. Maine |
| Sex with patient. Date convicted: June 2004 | License surrendered. | |
| True, Robert | clinical social worker | U.S. Maine |
| Sex with a patient. Date convicted: September 2004 | License permanently surrendered. | |
| TSAVARIS, LOUIS J. | psychiatrist. | U.S. Florida |
| Manslaughter of a former patient with whom he was sexually involved. Tsavaris strangled her after she became pregnant and pressured him to divorce his wife. He served 3 years of his sentence, then was paroled until 1997. (Now Deceased). Date convicted: June 10, 1981 | 15 years in jail | |
| Turcotte, Rodolph | psychiatrist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Accused of turning over guardianship of his 13-year-old daughter to one of his patients, who was convicted of statutory rape of the girl in 1982. Date convicted: Circa 1980 | License revoked. | |
| TURNER, MARCIA D. | outpatient case worker | U.S. Wisconsin |
| Stealing patient funds for personal use. Date convicted: December 1, 1999 | 5 months in jail, 5 years probation, 100 hours of community service and ordered to pay restitution | |
| Tuttle, Earl Dean | licensed professional counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Breach of code of ethics. Date convicted: April 17, 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Tutton, David | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid fraud conviction Date convicted: December 8, 2011 | Convicted | |
| Tyler, Hilary | mental health counselor | U.S. Vermont |
| Abuse of a vulnerable adult (had a sexual relationship with a resident of the facility where she worked, which she continued after the resident's discharge from the facility). Date convicted: April 9, 2008 | 18 months to 2 years jail, with all but 120 days suspended; ordered not to treat vulnerable female clients; partial restitution to the Medicaid program and ordered to not contest her inclusion of her name on the state registry of individuals who have abused vulnerable adults. | |
| TYSON, BILLY | psychiatric patient broker | U.S. Georgia |
| Taking more than $110,000 to refer state employees with drug or alcohol problems to a Colorado treatment center. Date convicted: August 1, 1993 | 8 to 12 months in jail, fined $20,000 and forced to forfeit his state pension | |
| TZOREN, YAIR | school counselor | Israel Jerusalem |
| Negligence resuting in the death of a student during a school field trip. Date convicted: March 27, 1992 | 2 months in jail, to be served in community service, and 7 months probation | |
| UCER, EROL | psychiatrist | U.S. Michigan |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: August 30, 1994 | 90 days in jail, 4 years probation, 400 hours community service and ordered to pay restitution of $700 | |
| Udebiuwa, Opauraugo Ihentuge | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Defrauded the Medicaid insurance program by billing for services that were never provided. Date convicted: October 17, 2006 | 3 years incarceration, all suspended except for 12 months, to be served as home confinement. Also ordered to pay $32,000 restitution to the Medicaid program and a penalty of $64,000. | |
| Unidentified, | psychiatric nurse | Switzerland Gruyeres, Fribourg |
| "Simple body lesions by negligence and assaults" (psychiatric nurse broke a 17-year-old female patient's collarbone in retaliation after patient threw water on him). Date convicted: January 10, 2008 | Sentenced: Fined 500 Swiss francs (US $485) | |
| Unidentified, | psychotherapist | Switzerland |
| Violating the law on therapeutic products (handed out doses of LSD, ecstasy and mescaline to guests). Date convicted: July 6, 2010 | Suspended 16-month prison sentence and $1900 fine. | |
| Unidentified, "K" | psychiatrist | Switzerland |
| Fraud and simple physical injury (to a patient). Date convicted: December 18, 2010 | 7200 francs (about $7360), suspended | |
| Unidentified, | psychiatrist | Russia Volgograd City |
| Fraud (offered patient needed documents for 8000 rubles, about $248) Date convicted: November 17, 2009 | 100,000 rubles (about $3100) | |
| Unidentified, | psychiatrist | Russia Vladivostok |
| Accepting bribes for providing certificates to DUI stating intoxication not found Date convicted: September 29, 2009 | 3 1/2 years prison | |
| Unidentified, | psychiatrist | Russia Nihzny Novogorod |
| Forgery Date convicted: June 29, 2010 | 5000 rubles (about $150) | |
| Unidentified, | psychologist | Norway |
| Possession of nearly 300,000 images of child pornography Date convicted: June 26, 2011 | 1 year, 10 months prison | |
| Unidentified, | psychiatrist | Spain (Madrid) |
| Involuntarily hospitalized and restrained a patient but failed to examine (patient was suffering from stroke) Date convicted: March 1, 2012 | One year prison (appealed and so not serving sentence yet) and $1.1 million (jointly) | |
| Unidentified, | psychiatrist | Switzerland |
| Insurance fraud Date convicted: May 2010 | 18 months prison, suspended | |
| Unidentified, | psychiatrist | Switzerland |
| Kidnapped a baby Date convicted: May 25, 2012 | 3 years jail | |
| UNNI, KOLATHUR | psychiatrist | UK London, England |
| Indecent assault on a woman (fondled a female patient during treatment for depression). Date convicted: July 4, 2002 | 18 months jail. | |
| Vagshenian, Gregory | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Convicted of 9 counts of misdemeanor assault involving three male patients. Date convicted: February 19, 2004 | $500 fine for each count. The state of California revoked his license in July 2005. In September 2005, Vagshenian was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Vahle, Trevor | counselor | U.S. Colorado |
| State counseling license revoked or suspended. Date convicted: March 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Vaisman, Naum | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Misdemeanor and felony insurance fraud (participated in an insurance fraud ring that defrauded millions by staging sham auto accidents following which Vaisman filed fraudulent claims to insurance carriers for psychological services that either were not provided or were not medically necessary). Date convicted: May 6, 2005 and Augu | Convicted and sentenced in two different counties to a 1- and a 3-year conditional discharge (suspended jail sentences), $50,000 fine and $330 in fees. His license was suspended 12/21/05 for one year by New York state. | |
| Valdez, Anthony F. | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare fraud of $41 million Date convicted: January 7, 2012 | 25 years prison | |
| Valentino, Nancy | mental health technician | U.S. California |
| Professional license suspended or revoked. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Valenzuela, Eric | counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Sex with client Date convicted: August 15, 2011 | 4 to 23 months prison | |
| Valera, Marianella | community mental health center owner | U.S. Florida |
| Medicaid fraud conviction Date convicted: December 9, 2011 | 35 years prison and $87 million in restitution (between 3 defendants) | |
| VAN DE MERGHEL, JEAN LOUIS | group home employee | U.S. Oregon |
| Theft of funds. Date convicted: December 18, 1999 | 20 days jail and ordered to pay $33,000 in restitution | |
| Vandenbos, Gregory | psychiatric nurse | U.S. Nevada |
| Unprofessional conduct; positive urine/drug screen on duty. Date convicted: February 2003 | Surrendered license in lieu of other disciplinary action. In March 2005, Vandenbos was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Vanderwielen, Paulus | psychiatrist | U.S. Washington |
| Failure to comply with a previous state Quality Assurance Commission order to keep legible and complete patient records Date convicted: May 2003 | License revoked for 10 years. | |
| VANWYK, WILLIAM SCOTT | counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Trying to molest a 7-year-old girl. Date convicted: February 17, 2000 | 1 year in jail and lifetime probation | |
| Vargas, Ricardo | counselor | U.S. Michigan |
| Criminal sexual conduct Date convicted: February 2011 | 165 days jail, $2,777 in fines | |
| VASQUEZ, FRANK | psychiatric technician | U.S. California |
| Beating and stabbing a patient to death. Date convicted: October 23, 1992 | 12 years in prison | |
| VEGA, EDWIN | psychology instructor | U.S. Illinois |
| Having sex with a teenage boy. Date convicted: June 22, 1999 | 3 years in jail | |
| VELIZ, FRANK | Prison Psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Sexual molestation and criminal sexual conduct involving his stepdaughter over a 7-year period, beginning when she was 7 years old.
In September 2004, the State of Michigan revoked Veliz's license. Date convicted: March 8, 2004 | 10 to 30 years prison on molestation conviction and 5 to 15 years prison on criminal sexual conduct convictions. | |
| VENZKE, GARY | child psychologist | U.S. Iowa |
| Killing his wife. Date convicted: November 1, 1996 | Life in prison | |
| VERHOEF, TODD | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Sex with a patient. Date convicted: September 28, 2000 | 2 years supervised release and 200 hours community service | |
| Vetere, Victoria | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| The Ohio Psychology Board's Consent Order states that on January 2, 2002, the Board received a complaint filed against Dr. Vetere by a former client. In response, Dr. Vetere agreed to withdraw from the practice of psychology. She did not admit to any of the specific allegations in the complaint, which included providing services for 20 months to a patient with a diagnosis for which Vetere did not have any training or experience in; engaged in a "mutually dependent relationship" with the patient and enabled the patient's use of alcohol (despite the patient being a recovering alcoholic), among other things. Date convicted: February 1, 2004 | License suspended indefinitely. Vetere currently practices in Ohio as an unlicensed "life coach." | |
| Villabona, Gregory N. | psychiatrist | U.S. Maryland |
| Third-degree (felony)sex offense and fourth-degree (misdemeanor) sex offense. (Molested two children.) Date convicted: November 25, 2002 | Following a guilty plea of felony sex offense and a separate count of misdemeanor sex offense, he was given five years probation. | |
| Vilshteyn, Rotislav "Steve" | mental health facility owner | U.S. New Jersey |
| Fraud and kickbacks scheme Date convicted: March 19, 2012 | 5 years prison and $200,000 restitution | |
| VIOLA, STEPHEN G | psychologist | U.S. Michigan |
| Sexual assault of 2 young boys. Date convicted: September 4, 1998 | 6 months in jail | |
| Violette, Jeffrey | psychiatrist | U.S. Maine |
| Substance abuse. Date convicted: April 13, 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Voeks, Randall S. | psychologist | U.S. Minnesota |
| Third-degree and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct (sexual contact with three female patients) Date convicted: 2005 | 48-month and 21-month prison sentences, both stayed upon completion of one year in county workhouse and if he abides by conditions of his probation. In October 2005 her was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| VON VANDERGRIFF, DAVID | psychologist | U.S. South Carolina |
| Health care fraud, mail fraud and filing false and fraudulent claims. Date convicted: September 12, 2002 | 15 months prison and approximately $88,000 restitution. | |
| Vorster, Ben | psychiatrist | Australia |
| Medical council concerns over his performance and "poor judgment." Date convicted: 2002 | Denied re-registration of license. | |
| WADE JR., MARK ALLEN | mental health orderly | U.S. Maryland |
| Sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female patient. Date convicted: February 4, 1997 | 5 years supervised probation, 3 years jail (suspended) with credit given for 52 days served while awaiting trial | |
| WAITE, DOUGLAS EDWARD | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Operating a methamphetamine laboratory. Date convicted: March 23, 1987 | 10 years in prison | |
| Walborn, Todd | psychologist | U.S. Alabama |
| Medicare fraud. Date convicted: April 2, 2004 | 33 months prison and $1.8 million in restitution. Walborn was excluded November 2004 from participation in federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Walczyk, Marek | Psychiatrist | U.S. Illinois |
| In February 2017, he pleaded guilty to signing a form indicating that one of his patients was too depressed and socially anxious to take the English language and U.S. civics portions of the citizenship test even though he hadn't examined the patient. Date convicted: May 22, 2017 | Three years probation and a $100,000 fine | |
| WALKLEY, STUART | psychologist | U.K. Winchester |
| Beating young boys under his care. Date convicted: November 8, 1991 | 9 months in prison (two-thirds suspended) | |
| Wallace, Orlin | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Unspecified allegation. Date convicted: February 8, 2003 | License surrendered. | |
| Wallace, Robert L. | mental health nurse | United Kingdom |
| Downloaded child pornography. Date convicted: September 2004 | Struck off nursing registry (license revoked). | |
| WALSH, MARCELLE | drug treatment center owner | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: September 1999 | 5 years probation and ordered to pay $170,804 in restitution | |
| Walton, Robert | psychologist | Australia |
| Found guilty of maintaining an improper sexual relationship with a patient. Date convicted: April 2004 | License suspended for 2 years. | |
| WARD, DANIEL F. | psychiatrist | U.S. Kansas, Missouri |
| Health care fraud (billed the Medicare insurance program for non-covered services).
Date convicted: August 13, 2002 | 5 months in prison without parole; 3 years supervised release (includes 5 months home detention); $49,944 restitution. Ward was excluded from federally-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in March 2003. | |
| Warneford, Anita | child psychologist | UK |
| Benefits (public assistance) fraud: Fraudulently claimed and received £43,000 (US $86,667) in housing benefits. Date convicted: May 16, 2007 | 2 months jail. | |
| Warnsing, Travis | psych tech | U.S. Nebraska |
| Child sexual assault: used the Internet to arrange sexual encounters with underage girls, including a 15-year-old that he impregnated. Date convicted: January 12, 2006 | 20 to 30 years prison. | |
| Warshaw, Steven | psychologist | U.S. New Hampshire |
| Sexual contact with a patient. Date convicted: October 2003 | Banned from practicing. | |
| WASHINGTON, JAMES | counselor | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Selling drugs to a juvenile. Date convicted: February 3, 1995 | 1 to 2 years in prison | |
| WASHINGTON, LUCAROL | mental health employee | U.S. Oklahoma |
| Physically abusing a patient. Date convicted: February 19, 1998 | 90 days (suspended) | |
| Waters, Celeste | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Failure to keep accurate patient records. Date convicted: April 7, 2009 | 1 year probation and $1,000 fine. | |
| WATKINS, CONNELL | therapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Reckless child abuse (found guilty for her role in the suffocation death of a 10-year-old girl during an effort to simulate her birth by the use of "rebirthing therapy"). Date convicted: June 18, 2001 | 16 years prison. | |
| Watral, David | psychologist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Child pornography. Date convicted: October 28, 2005 | 27 months prison and $7,500 fine. | |
| WATSON, DONNIE | psychologist | U.S. Georgia |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: November 1998 | 18 months in jail, 3 years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $593,073 | |
| WATSON, MARION LESLEY | psychiatric nurse | Australian Canberra |
| Dealing heroin. Date convicted: July 1999 | 4 years in prison | |
| WATSON, MARY ANN | mentally disabled caregiver | U.S. Oregon |
| Physically assaulting mentally disabled patients. Date convicted: May 8, 1997 | 5 years supervised probation | |
| Watson, Jeanne Marie | counselor | U.S. Virginia |
| Defrauded the U.S. Medicaid program of $38,130. Date convicted: November 4, 2009 | 5 years supervised probation. | |
| Watt, James | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Criminally negligent homicide (killed a 38-year-old female patient while treating her with carbon dioxide inhalation "therapy). Date convicted: April 23, 2002 | He was excluded from participation in federal health plans (Medicaid, etc.) in March 2003. | |
| Wawrykow, George M. | psychologist | U.S. Texas |
| Assaulting an officer and resisting arrest after refusing to sign a citation for parking a van in a fire lane. Date convicted: May 28, 1992 | 30 days jail and $6,000 fine. | |
| WEBB, NORRIS | hospital orderly | U.S. New Jersey |
| Sexually assaulting several mentally disabled women. Date convicted: May 9,1997 | 10 years in prison | |
| Weinberg, Howard | psychologist | U.S. Iowa |
| Possession of child pornography: pleaded guilty to having more than 600 computer images of children engaged in
sexually-explicit conduct. Date convicted: September 22, 2009 | 10 years prison and 10 years supervised release. | |
| WEITZEL, ROBERT | psychiatrist | U.S. Utah |
| Prescription drug fraud (kept much of the morphine and Demerol he had prescribed for his patients to feed his own drug habit). Date convicted: september 11, 2002 | 1 year in prison. (Served approximately 4 1/2 months, beginning December 9, 2002. He was released April 17, 2003). | |
| WELDGEN, LANCE | therapist | U.S. Colorado |
| Sexually assaulting a patient. Date convicted: May 1990 | Jail for 1 year | |
| Wells, Barbara | psychiatric nurse | U.S. Delaware |
| Patient abuse or neglect conviction. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| WENDLER, CHRISTOPHER KIP | psychiatrist | U.S. Missouri |
| Insurance fraud. On October 22, 1999, sentenced to another 4 years in jail on further fraud charges. Date convicted: May 26, 1998 | 11 to 52 years in prison | |
| Werner, William | counselor | U.S. Texas |
| Convicted of a felony or misdemeanor directly related to the duties and responsibilities of a licensed professional counselor. Date convicted: April 17, 2004 | License revoked. | |
| Wesemann, Kenneth | psychologist and mental health counselor | U.S. Indiana |
| In 20004, the State Attorney General and a county probation officer filed complaints against Wesemann based on reports made by three boys, all Wesemann's patients, that Wesemann had used "relaxation therapy" on them, which consisted of massaging the head, neck, shoulders, stomach and thighs. No criminal charges were brought against Wesemann and a civil suit against him was dismissed. Date convicted: April 29, 2008 | Indefinite probation. Both of Wesemann's licenses are expired. | |
| Wetmore, Thomas | social worker | U.S. Maryland |
| Felony sex conviction involving child Date convicted: August 6, 2010 | Convicted | |
| Wettach, Thomas | social worker | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Convicted of crimes of moral turpitude, specifically corruption of minors, indecent exposure, and open lewdness, which occurred during counseling sessions with clients Date convicted: June 15, 2005 | License revoked. | |
| WETZEL, JAMES E. | child psychologist | U.S. Pennsylvania |
| Sexually molesting two boys. Date convicted: June 1998 | 6 to 23 months in jail; and up to 18 years probation | |
| WHARRY, IRENE CAROLINE | prison counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Helping an inmate escape from prison. Date convicted: April 12, 1993 | 4 years probation | |
| WHITE, CHE | counselor | U.S. Florida |
| Sex with a teenage girl. Date convicted: Circa 2000 | Similar sentence as was given to fellow co-worker Basil Proctor (8 months in jail, 2 years house arrest and 5 years sex-offender probation) | |
| WHITE, CHRISTINE | psychiatric nurse | U.K. Newcastle |
| Stealing from two patients. Date convicted: 1999 | 4 months in jail | |
| WHITE, JAMES HARRISON | psychiatrist | U.S. California |
| Oral copulation of an unconscious male patient. Date convicted: January 9, 1991 | 6 years and 8 months in prison | |
| WHITE, JASON BRANT | youth counselor | U.S. Arizona |
| Molesting a 14-year-old boy. Date convicted: March 26, 1999 | 7 years in prison and lifetime probation | |
| White, Robert F. | clinical social worker | U.S. Oregon |
| Insurance fraud. Date convicted: July 2005 | 30 months in prison and permanently surrender his clinical social work license | |
| White, Robert F. | clinical social worker | U.S. Oregon |
| Aggravated theft in the first degree and Submitting False Claims for Health Care Payments and Submitting False Claims for Health Care Payments (billed federally funded health care programs for over 5,000 counseling sessions that he never actually provided). Date convicted: July 6, 2005 | 30 months in prison, permanent surrender of his license and full restitution of $169,620.59 to various health care programs. | |
| White, Timothy | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: August 19, 2004 | Excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (such as Medicaid). | |
| Whitmore, Paul | counselor | U.S. California |
| Whitmore, active in a child pornography ring, was convicted of 51 charges including child molestation and child pornography. Date convicted: February 1, 2006 | Life in prison. | |
| Whitworth, Denise | Psychologist | United Kingdom Wales |
| She continued to work in her private practice without the consent of her employer while she was certified unfit to work and claiming sick pay from her employer. In September 2015, she was tried and convicted of dishonestly failing to disclose information to make a gain for self/another or cause/expose other to a loss. Date convicted: February 17, 2017 | License Suspended for a maximum of 12 months | |
| Wickram, Ian Edward | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Felony sexual exploitation of a patient (had sex with two of his female patients). Date convicted: October 24, 2002 | 90 days jail, 5 years probation, 500 hours community service, sex offender registration and prohibited from practicing psychology for 5 years. Wickram was excluded from participation in federally-funded health plans (Medicaid, etc.) in May 2003. | |
| Wiggens, Christopher | psychiatric hospital supervisor | U.S. Ohio |
| Attempted sexual battery (admitted he had sexual contact with a 17-year-old patient). Date convicted: January 8, 2010 | 18 months prison. | |
| Wightman, Louise | unlicensed psychologist | U.S. Massachusetts |
| Filed false health care claims, larceny (theft) and practicing without a license. Date convicted: May 14, 2007 | 6 months prison, suspended; 12 months electronically-monitored home confinement; 5 years probation and ordered to perform 1,000 hours community service. She is also barred from practicing counseling. | |
| WILBANKS, DONNIE | clinical social worker | U.S. Missouri |
| Medicaid fraud. Date convicted: March 23, 1999 | 21 days "shock time" in jail, 5 years probation and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution | |
| WILLIAMS, CHARLSETTA | therapy clinic owner | U.S. Georgia |
| Defrauding Medicaid health insurance. Date convicted: May 1996 | 12 years probation and ordered to pay $55,700 in restitution | |
| WILLIAMS, JOSEPH | counselor | Canada Ottawa |
| found guilty of threats of rape against a co-worker and her son. Date convicted: Apirl 1998 | 3 years probation | |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS T. | former school psychologist | U.S. Utah |
| Felony sexual assaults of two young girls who were not his students. Date convicted: December 17, 2001 | Two concurrent prison sentences of 3 years-to-life. | |
| WILLIAMS, ROGER B. | alcohol treatment center owner | U.S. New York |
| Medicaid insurance fraud. Date convicted: June 17, 2002 | 2 1/2-to-7 years prison. | |
| WILLIAMS, LARRY DEXTER | unlicensed social worker | U.S. Maryland |
| Practicing clinical social work without a license and misrepresenting himself as a licensed social worker. Date convicted: October 7, 2002 | 90 days jail, 60 days suspended; $500 fine and 3 years probation. | |
| WILLIAMS, ALVIN TYRONE | psychiatric nurse-counselor | U.S. Maryland |
| Attempted third-degree sexual offense (sexually assaulted a teenage female resident of the facility where he worked). Date convicted: December 20, 2002 | 5 years prison with all but 2 years suspended. | |
| Williams, Artiss Reginald | social worker | U.S. Michigan |
| Unlawful imprisonment and criminal sexual conduct. Court documents state that Williams picked up two different prostitutes on the same day (in incidents five hours apart) and held each at knife point in his home and forced them to do as he ordered. Date convicted: June 12, 2007 | Prison of no less than 25 years and as much as 75 years. | |
| Williams, Thomas | mental health aide | U.S. Maryland |
| Patient abuse/neglect conviction. Date convicted: August 19, 2004 | Excluded from participation in federally-funded health care programs (such as Medicaid). | |
| WILLIS, KEVIN | prison counselor | U.S. Ohio |
| Killing a man. Date convicted: February 24, 1993 | 15 years to life in prison | |
| WILLIS, ROBERT HOWARD | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Using inside information from a patient to illegally make thousands of dollars in the stock market. Date convicted: January 7, 1992 | 5 years probation, 600 hours of community service and fined $150,000 | |
| Willner, Mark | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Medicare fraud Date convicted: June 1, 2012 | To be sentenced | |
| Wilson, Evelyn S. | clinical social worker and family therapist | U.S. New Jersey |
| Theft by deception. (Wilson submitted insurance claims for several hundred social work, marriage counseling and family therapy sessions that were never rendered to patients or clients). Date convicted: January 26, 2007 | 5 years probation, $109,500 restitution to Horizon Blue Cross & Blue Shield. | |
| Wilson, John | psychologist | U.S. Ohio |
| During the period when his license was suspended (see below for more information on this), he gave testimony in a deposition in which he "significantly and deceptively misrepresented and distorted the nature and practical impact of his license suspension" such stating that it was only for two years when in fact it was indefinite; that he was authorized to provide psychological services to a client with whom he had established service prior to December 17, 2001 when he was not actually authorized, and that while suspended, he had provided psychological services to a former client who had contacted him by phone, among other things. Date convicted: March 12, 2004 | License surrendered; deemed a revocation. Wilson's license was initially suspended June 19, 2002 for an indefinite period of no less than two years because, according to documents of the Ohio Psychology Board, he "blurred the boundaries of his professional role as an...evaluator for [a female client] and the attorneys representing her in significant personal injury litigation by engaging in excessive self-disclosure regarding personal issues and problems; invited her to lunch and dinner with social drinking; and inappropriate discussion of her marital relationship and his sexual interests." Board documents further state that the patient alleged that Wilson "made a physically intrusive sexual advance toward her at the end of the day when there no witnesses to their interaction. Dr. Wilson has steadfastly asserted that he has no memory of this period of time due to an alcoholic black-out...." | |
| Wilson, Diane | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Sexual relationship with former patient. Date convicted: September 20, 2005 | License revoked. | |
| WILSON JR., WILLIAM ROBERT | psychiatric hospital administrator | U.S. Texas |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: Circa 1995 | 1 year in prison, 3 years supervised release | |
| Windham, Marilyn A. | prison psychologist | U.S. California |
| Pleaded guilty to engaging in sex with an inmate. Date convicted: February 9, 2007 | 90 days detention and 3 years probation. | |
| Windsor, David | psychiatrist | U.S. Iowa |
| Criminal conviction for false income tax filing in the state of Missouri resulting in loss of both his Missouri and Iowa medical licenses.
Windsor, David psychiatrist U.S. Iowa Criminal conviction for false tax filing in MO 2001 License revoked in Missouri Date convicted: July 2005 | License revoked (Iowa, 2005 and Missouri, 2001). | |
| Wisman, Jack | psychiatrist | U.S. Nebraska |
| Unprofessional conduct in prescribing drugs to patients (excessive amounts, failure to monitor patients and failure to keep accurate medical records). Date convicted: May 2003 | License revoked. | |
| Wittkopp, George | psychiatrist | U.S. Oregon |
| Inappropriate prescribing and indoctrinating his patients about the New World Order. Date convicted: February 2005 | License revoked. | |
| Wohltmann, Virginia | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Tax evasion. Date convicted: June 23, 2010 | Community service. | |
| WOLF, BILL | family therapist | U.S. Oregon |
| Possession and distribution of child pornography. Date convicted: October 4, 2002 | 70 months incarceration, 3 years supervised release and $100 fine. | |
| WOLFE, JANE | administrative social worker | U.S. New York |
| Stealing thousands of dollars from Medicaid insurance while working at Roosevelt Community Mental Health Center. Date convicted: June 12, 1996 | 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in prison | |
| Wood, Joanne Alice | prison drug counselor | New Zealand |
| Importing 13.5 grams of methamphetamine (worth approximately $13,500) from the U.S.
Date convicted: August 11, 2005 | 14 months prison. | |
| WOODBURY, JOHN M. | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Molesting a female patient. Date convicted: December 9, 1986 | 6 months in jail, 3 years probation and ordered to pay $5,500 | |
| WOODMAN, BRETT ANDREW | psychiatric nurse trainee | Australia Melbourne |
| Concealing a manslaughter. Date convicted: August 23, 1999 | 18 months in jail (14 months suspended) | |
| WOODS, KENDRICK A. | mental health employee | U.S. Tennessee |
| Seriously burning a patient. Date convicted: February 10, 2000 | Nearly 1 year in prison and fined $250 | |
| Woods, John C. | psychiatrist | U.S. Arizona |
| Pistol whipped and shot at his wife. Date convicted: August 2005 | License suspended following arrest. | |
| Woodward, Jerome | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Prescribing improper and excessive amounts of drugs to family members and to a patient who subsequently died of a drug overdose. Date convicted: November 2002 | Voluntary surrender of license. | |
| Woodward, Martha | counselor | U.S. Colorado |
| Maintained an inappropriate relationship with a client. Date convicted: April 2003 | Surrendered license for 7 years. | |
| WRIGHT, KAY | mentally disabled home owner | U.S. New York |
| Stealing nearly $500,000 in state and federal Medicaid funds. Date convicted: March 10, 1998 | 2 years in jail | |
| WRIGHT, LESLIE | mentally disabled home owner | U.S. New York |
| Stealing nearly $500,000 in state and federal Medicaid funds. Date convicted: March 10, 1998 | 37 months in jail | |
| WRIGHT, CRYSTAL | mental health aide | U.S. Kentucky |
| Criminal adult abuse (of a resident of the center where she worked). Date convicted: February 6, 2002 | 12 months jail. | |
| Wright, Duff | psychologist | U.S. Tennessee |
| Dual relationships - invested and lost $81,000 of patient's money. Date convicted: April 13, 2005 | License revoked. In September 2005, Wright was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Wyatt, Thomas | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Sexual battery on a minor Date convicted: October 13, 2022 | Seventeen years probation | |
| WYNER, RUTH | homeless shelter counselor and employee | U.K. Cambridgeshire |
| Wyner allowed drug dealing to take place at a homeless shelter she operated. Date convicted: 1999 | Served 7 months of an initial 5 year sentence after an appeal in 2000 released Wyner finding that 5 years was too long | |
| Wynn, Billy Gerald | state psychiatric hospital staff | U.S. North Carolina |
| Pleaded guilty to assault on a handicapped person. Date convicted: May 25, 2010 | 75 days jail, suspended. | |
| Yak, Alma | psychiatrist | U.K. England |
| Claimed more than £25,000 in Income Support, housing and council tax benefits despite earning £50,000 annualy and owning two homes. Date convicted: September 2005 | 15 month suspended sentence and repayment of £25,953.54. | |
| YAMAGUCHI, TAKASHI | psychologist | Japan Hiroshima |
| Sexually molested a 12-year-old girl. Date convicted: February 1997 | Jail (actual sentenced unknown). | |
| Yankura, Joseph | psychologist | U.S. New York |
| Rape and endangering the welfare of a child; sexual intercourse with a person under age 17. Date convicted: November 21, 2003 | 6 months prison and 10 years probation. The state of New York revoked Yankura's license in June 2004. He was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in August 2005. | |
| YANOVITZ, GIDEON | psychiatrist | Israel Tel Aviv |
| Taking bribes to falsify army fitness reports. Date convicted: September 1998 | 15 months in jail and 15 months suspended term | |
| Yapalater, Alvin | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Negligence and incompetence. Date convicted: August 2004 | License revoked. | |
| YARDNEY, MICHAEL | therapist and doctor | Australian Melbourne |
| Sexually abusing female patients. Date convicted: April 1999 | Jailed | |
| YASUDA, MOTOTAKA | mental health executive | Japan Osaka |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 14, 1998 | 3 years in prison and fined 1 million yen ($1,293,500) | |
| Yedid, Joseph | psychologist | U.S. California |
| Fraud. Date convicted: April 2005 | License suspended for 60 days. Yedid was excluded from participation in federally funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.) in August 2005. | |
| YENTIS, RICHARD | psychiatrist | U.S. Texas |
| Health insurance fraud. Date convicted: April 18, 1997 | 33 months in jail, 3 years supervised release and ordered to pay $105,000 in fines and restitution | |
| YEO, KENG HWEE (KATHY) | psychiatric nurse | Austrailia Sydney |
| Murdered her former lover (who had been a patient in the drug and alcohol unit where she worked; the body was dismembered but only the head, containing three bullets, was recovered). Date convicted: October 24, 2002 | Minimum of 18 years in prison (originally given the same sentence April 12, 2000, Yeo was re-convicted on appeal and re-sentenced). | |
| Yesufu, Adekumle | psychiatrist | Ireland |
| Exposed himself to three women. Date convicted: February 12, 2010 | Was convicted but committed suicide prior to sentencing. | |
| YOKOYAMA, MIWAKO | mental health employee | Japan Akita |
| Swindling money from elderly patients in "Toko-En", a psychiatric nursing home where she worked. Date convicted: December 2000 | 2 1/2 years in prison | |
| YOUNG, MICHAEL | prison psychiatrist | Canada |
| Sexually assaulting 2 young girls. Date convicted: September 18, 1991 | 6 months in jail | |
| Young, Andrew W. | social worker | U.S. Alaska |
| Producing and receiving child pornography Date convicted: December 7, 2011 | 22 years prison | |
| Younglove (Eichenberg), Stephanie M. | Limited License Psychologist (requires supervision) | U.S. Michigan |
| Lack of good moral character, engaging in practice of psychology without meeting requirements for supervision, evidences practice outside the scope of license, evidences false or misleading advertising. From May 2013 - November 2014, while part owner of New Hope Counseling in Michigan, Younglove (Eichenberg) was required to have supervision from a fully licensed psychologist. She advertised that she was receiving such supervision yet practiced without supervision. Date convicted: April 25, 2016 | Suspension effective 5/25/2016. Suspension lifted when $500 fine paid and documentation is provided of "required supervision." | |
| YOUNIS, ABDULLAH | psychiatrist | U.K. Hampstead |
| Killing his former lover after setting fire to their home because the cat had died. Date convicted: September 21, 1998 | 6 years in jail | |
| Yousuf, Ahad | psychiatrist | U.S. Virginia |
| Obtaining a controlled substance by frand (wrote false prescription for controlled painkillers; diverted the drugs for own use). Date convicted: April 8, 2009 | 1 year probation. | |
| Yuhasz, Jackie | counselor | U.S. Wisconsin, New York |
| Health care fraud. Date convicted: August 2005 | Excluded from federal-funded health care programs (Medicaid, etc.). | |
| Zackheim, Mark Allen | psychologist | U.S. Indiana |
| Health care fraud. Zackheim filed billings and claims for reimbursement to Medicaid (U.S. government health plan) for therapies that were never provided to patients, were not medically necessary or were not entitled under Medicaid.
Date convicted: October 2, 2009 | Zackheim was sentenced to 13 months in prison but did not serve the sentence; He died of a heart attack suffered while driving on November 21, 2009. | |
| ZAGAINOV, IVAN (AKA IVAN SIMROTH) | psychiatrist | Czech Republic Prague |
| Murder (strangled a 15-year-old female patient whose mother had signed over custody of her to the psychiatrist). Date convicted: November 12, 2003 | 13 years prison. | |
| ZALA, JITENDRAKUMAR | marriage counselor | U.K. London |
| Assault by breaking his wife's arm in 2 places. Date convicted: July 31, 1992 | 9 months | |
| Zeider, Yosef | psychotherapist | Israel Tel-Aviv |
| Indecent assault of four men whom he was apparently grooming to serve as surrogates to sexually dysfunctional women. Date convicted: March 18, 2005 | 2 1/2 years prison and ordered to pay NIS 50,000 (approximately US $12,000) to each man. | |
| ZEIDMAN, HERMAN | psychologist | U.S. Florida |
| Battery (attempted to rape an undercover policewoman who posed as a patient in order to investigate complaints that Zeidman was fondling patients' breasts after hypnotizing them). Date convicted: September 29, 1993 | 1 year probation and therapy. | |
| Zepinic, Vitomir | psychologist | Australia |
| Guilty on six counts of falsely claiming to be a doctor in official letters he sent to an insurance company. Date convicted: July 23, 2008 | Sentence pending. | |
| ZHITLOVSKY, GERMAN | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Drunk driving after it was discovered he had forged a letter saying he had completed a judge's treatment program on previous conviction for drunk driving. Date convicted: June 27, 1990 | 6 months in jail | |
| Zhitlovsky, German | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Convicted of criminal conspiracy and concealed the conviction on a subsequent application for licensure in the state of Missouri. Date convicted: January 2005 | License surrendered. | |
| Zhitlovsky, German | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Criminal conspiracy (along with two other individuals, wrongfully billed the New York State Medicaid program for having provided Medicaid recipients with durable medical equipment which had not actually been prescribed by a physician and, in many cases, not delivered to a Medicaid recipient. Date convicted: January 6, 1994 | Conditional discharge and restitution of $45,000. | |
| Zimmer, Evan | psychiatrist | U.S. Florida |
| Soliciting a prostitute Date convicted: November 2010 | Pleaded no contest | |
| ZITO, JOSEPH ANTHONY | psychiatrist | U.S. New York |
| Selling illegal prescriptions. Date convicted: October 27, 1999 | 6 months in jail and 4 1/2 years probation | |
| ZOLTOWSKI, MARIANNE | counselor | U.S. New York |
| Her part in a health insurance fraud ring. Date convicted: January 1999 | 1 year conditional discharge and ordered to pay $8,954 in restitution | |
| ZYSKIND, BERYL | group home administrator | U.S. New York |
| Fraud and embezzlement of mentally ill patients' funds. Date convicted: November 18, 1996 | 30 months in jail | |
