Report of Regents Professional Practice Committee to The Board of Regents
Your Professional Practice Committee held its scheduled meeting on January 23, 2018. All Committee members were present. Chancellor Betty A. Rosa was also present but did not vote on any case or action.
ACTION ITEMS
Professional Discipline Cases
Your Committee recommends that the reports of the Regents Review Committees, including rulings, findings of fact, determinations as to guilt, and recommendations, by unanimous or majority vote, contained in those reports which have been distributed to you, be accepted in 3 cases, with Regent Josephine Victoria Finn and Regent Catherine Collins both abstaining in all three of those cases. In addition, your Committee recommends, upon the recommendation of the Committee on the Professions, that 30 consent order applications and 18 surrender applications be granted, and further recommends that 1 summary suspension application be granted.
In the case of Md Shamim A. Akond a/k/a Shamim A. Akond a/k/a Shamin Akond, Professional Engineer, Cal. No. 28191, we recommend that the report of the Regents Review Committee be corrected as follows: the name of the respondent shown in the caption, header, and body of the report be deemed corrected to show respondent’s name is Md Shamim A. Akond a/k/a Shamim A. Akond a/k/a Shamin Akond.
These recommendations are made following the review of 52 cases involving seventeen registered professional nurses, thirteen licensed practical nurses, four professional engineers, three dentists, three psychologists, two certified public accountants, two licensed practical nurses who are also registered professional nurses, two pharmacists, one chiropractor, one licensed mental health counselor, one pharmacy, and one veterinary technician.
Restorations
Your Committee recommends the following:
That the application of Scott D. Geise for the restoration of his license to practice as a Dentist in New York State be granted. [PPC EXS (A) 5]
That the application of Jay Kirshner for the restoration of his license to practice as a Pharmacist in New York State be denied. [PPC EXS (A) 6]
Long-Term Clinical Clerkships [PPC EXS (A) 4]
Your Committee recommends the following: That the application of the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine, Hungary to place students in long-term clinical clerkships in New York be approved, in accordance with and subject to the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Long-term Clinical Clerkships.
MOTION FOR ACTION BY FULL BOARD
Madam Chancellor and Colleagues: Your Professional Practice Committee recommends, and we move, that the Board of Regents act affirmatively upon each recommendation in the written report of the Committee's deliberations at its meeting on January 23, 2018, copies of which have been distributed to each Regent.
MATTERS NOT REQUIRING BOARD ACTION
Your Committee discussed several topics of interest, including:
Deputy Commissioner's Report/Update
- Full Board Consent Agenda Items
- Board (Re)Appointments
- Licensing Petitions
- Permission to Operate – Mansfield University
- Proposed Amendment of §29.10 of the Rules of the Board of Regents and §70.7, §70.8 and §70.10 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Mandatory Peer Review Program in Public Accountancy (2nd Emergency)
- Proposed Amendment of §29.2 of the Rules of the Board of Regents and Addition of §52.48, §79-20.4 and §79-20.5 to the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Licensing of Licensed Pathologists’ Assistants (2nd Emergency)
- Proposed Amendment of §70.10 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Mandatory Peer Review Program in Public Accountancy (Permanent Adoption)
- Proposed Amendment of §75.2 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Limited License in Speech-Language Pathology (Permanent Adoption)
- Proposed Amendment of §76.5 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Definition of Occupational Therapy Practice (Permanent Adoption)