California Medical Board Prohibits Psychiatrist Lindsay R. Kiriakos from Taking on New Female Patients

June 5, 2023

On January 22, 2022, the Medical Board of California placed Encino, California psychiatrist Lindsay Kiriakos on probation for seven years and imposed limits on his practice. 

The Board’s first cause of discipline was sexual misconduct, involving a female patient. The Board additionally charged him with gross negligence, failure to maintain adequate and accurate medical records in the care and treatment of one patient, and unprofessional conduct.

Among the limitations that the Board placed on his practice was a prohibition against accepting any new female patients for treatment.   

On February 18, 2021, the Board published an Accusation against Kiriakos for sexual misconduct and other violations involving a 29-year-old female patient identified as “Patient 1.”

The Accusation states that Kiriakos continued to see and treat the patient even after he was aware of both the patient’s romantic/sexual attraction toward him and his own such attraction toward her. He additionally continued to see the patient even after he had referred her to another therapist.

During a video treatment session, Kiriakos asked the patient to show him her breasts. In another instance, he told the patient he’d like to ejaculate on her.

During an in-person session, Kiriakos unzipped the Patient’s dress and engaged in contact which, while not strictly sexual (e.g. intercourse), was nonetheless sexual in nature. (This occurred on the day before his pregnant wife gave birth.)

Source: Decision in the Matter of the Accusation Against Lindsay Ramzi Kiriakos, M.D., Physician's and Surgeon's Certificate No. A 79342, Case No. 800-2019-063022, Medical Board of California, Jan. 21, 2022.

Read the entire text of the Accusation here.