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Alexander Amadeus Simring
Last updated: 2026-10-18T09:43:43.510Z
- Practitioner name
- Alexander Amadeus Simring
- Name as recorded
- Alexander Amadeus Simring
- Profession
- Medical practitioner (gastroenterologist)
- Decision date
- 2010-04-29
- Offence category
- Child exploitation material
- Offence
- He was convicted of accessing and possessing child pornography and placed on the Child Protection Register. He did not tell the NSW Medical Board about his convictions within seven days as the law required; the Board only found out when the media contacted it. Criminal convictions for accessing and possessing child pornography; placed on the Child Protection Register. Failed to notify the Medical Board of the convictions.
- Outcome
- Found guilty of professional misconduct. Reprimanded and allowed to keep practising on conditions: no attending, treating or performing procedures on patients under 18, attend a Board-nominated psychiatrist, and authorise the Board to give his employers a copy of the tribunal's reasons. The NSW Medical Tribunal, on a prosecution by the Health Care Complaints Commission, chose a reprimand and conditions rather than suspension or deregistration, so a doctor convicted of child pornography offences kept practising on adults.
- Outcome type
- Reprimand; conditions
- Outcome length
- No suspension
- Category
- Not recorded
- Tribunal
- NSW Medical Tribunal
- Case name
- Dr Alexander Amadeus Simring – reprimanded and conditions imposed by Medical Tribunal
- Citation
- Not recorded
- Tribunal decision date
- 2010-04-29
- State
- NSW
- Tribunal city
- Not recorded
- National board
- NSW Medical Board (pre-National Law)
- Registration status
- Not recorded
- Official outcome (tribunal/board)
- Not recorded
- Source confidence
- Not recorded
- Notes
- Permanently barred: No
Decision-makers
Not recorded