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| Practitioner | Profession | Offence | Outcome | Tribunal | Jurisdiction | Decision date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Lehr | Medical practitioner | After a fellow doctor, Dr Y, told him she did not share his feelings, he harassed her with targeted, planned messages to her mobile and publicly on social media from February to October 2017. It harmed her personally and professionally and her ability to take part in the medical community. Charged in December 2017 with stalking and using a carriage service to harass; convicted on 11 October 2018 of using a carriage service to harass (Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) s 474.17). | Reprimanded and disqualified from practising for 12 months. VCAT, on the Medical Board's referral, found professional misconduct but set only a 12-month disqualification. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | VIC, Australia | 2020-05-14 |
| Rita Adenike Johnson | Registered nurse (aged care) | On a night shift at an aged care facility between 3 and 4 November 2018 she showed two colleagues a video of an adult man sexually abusing an infant, which she had received on a WhatsApp group. Both colleagues said they were 'significantly traumatised'; they helped her delete it and reported it. Investigated by police; no charges laid. Professional misconduct. | Reprimanded; conditions for four months (education programs and a reflective practice report). No suspension. The Board's earlier immediate suspension was revoked on appeal. SACAT accepted she found the video abhorrent and had no intention to harm, and decided suspension was not needed. Police did not charge her. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | SA, Australia | 2020-04 |
| Andrew Roberts | Pharmacist | From mid-2018, about a month after starting at an Adelaide pharmacy, he stole drugs of dependency by entering almost 70 false prescriptions on about 39 occasions over 18 months. After resigning in September 2019 he went back into the pharmacy three times (using a copied key) and did it again. Pleaded guilty and convicted in the SA Magistrates Court of trespass with intent to commit theft, theft, and dishonestly manipulating a machine for benefit. Did not notify the Board of the charges. | Reprimanded, disqualified from registration and banned from providing any health service for five years from 13 December 2022; Board's costs. SACAT set a fixed five-year disqualification even though he did not take part in the proceedings and gave no evidence of rehabilitation. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | SA, Australia | 2022-12-13 |
| Natalya Herzog | Nurse | While attending her own psychiatric appointment she stole a prescription pad from a psychiatrist's room, forged prescriptions for benzodiazepines, presented them at pharmacies and collected the drugs. After a police caution and an apology she presented more forged repeats she had kept. A panel had already reprimanded her in 2015 for similar conduct. Pleaded guilty to forging and presenting prescriptions to obtain prescription-only medicines; found guilty in July 2017; $500 good behaviour bond. | Reprimanded, registration cancelled and disqualified from applying for only six months from the August 2020 hearing; Board's costs. SACAT, despite finding she lacked insight and had a 2015 reprimand for similar conduct, set a six-month disqualification. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | SA, Australia | 2020-08 |
| David Griersmith | Psychologist (Mt Eliza) | Ms A saw him 44 times from July 2013 to April 2014 for anxiety, depression, alcohol problems and gambling addiction; his own notes called her condition 'severe and complex'. A personal and sexual relationship began before their final session and lasted until January 2015, including overseas trips; at times he held her bank cards. She later told another psychologist it was causing her distress. He also failed to seek supervision and misled medical practitioners about the relationship. No criminal charges. Multiple findings of professional misconduct. | Reprimanded and disqualified for six months (until 18 June 2019), credited for 15 months already out of practice. The Psychology Board took about 18 months after being notified to suspend him (September 2017), and VCAT set a six-month disqualification, reduced for time already out of practice. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | VIC, Australia | 2019-01 |
| Vqk (Name Suppressed) | Paramedic (also a registered nurse) | On 14 and 15 December 2017, around the time he attempted suicide, he stalked his former domestic partner, Ms AB: he took her mobile phone, used it to post explicit photos of her on social media and sent messages that pretended to come from her, blaming her for his suicide attempt. In 2019, while his application for paramedic registration was being considered, he did not tell the Board about the charges. Nine charges laid; eight (including theft of her phone and illegal use of a carriage service) were withdrawn. Pleaded guilty in November 2019 to stalking (Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) s 21A); no conviction, 12-month adjourned undertaking, men's behaviour change program, $1,000 to the court fund. | Reprimanded and registration suspended for six months. VCAT (J Billings, Senior Member; C Jones and E Rankins, Members) took his mental health into account and imposed six months' suspension, keeping him in the profession and his name suppressed. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | VIC, Australia | 2022-04-06 |
| Andrew Douglas McGavigan | Medical practitioner | He accessed and possessed child exploitation material. The tribunal found the conduct was not isolated and went beyond accessing and possessing a substantial quantity of material, and he was sentenced to an immediate term of imprisonment. Pleaded guilty to child exploitation material charges under the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) (ss 474.22, 474.22A, 474.17); immediate imprisonment; registrable under the Child Sex Offenders Registration Act 2006 (SA). | Reprimanded, registration cancelled, disqualified from applying for registration for 10 years and banned from providing health services; Board's costs. SACAT (Senior Member Rainford, Member Dr Lagana and Member McEntee), deciding on the papers, set a 10-year disqualification rather than a permanent one. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | SA, Australia | 2023-09-13 |