Twelve people, illegally practicing medicine in Florida, had their licenses suspended, Florida Department of Health (DOH) announced Thursday.
Of those suspended, several pled guilty to one felony county of possession with intent to distribute ozycodone and another with possession of marijuana with intent to sell and manufacture. A Miami doctor pled guilty on two felony counts of unlawfully and willfully defrauding an insurance company.
The persons suspended hailed from Lake Mary, Maitland, Sanford, Lake City, Osteen, Inverness and Lake City, among other cities.
See list of people suspended below:
Alisha Celine Barber, Licensed Practical Nurse, Inverness.
Barber violated Florida Statutes by engaging in the possession of hydromophone and oxycodone for an unauthorized purpose; engaged in unprofessional conduct by falsifying patient records and engaged in unprofessional conduct by removing controlled substances from the medication cart without accounting for what was done with the multiple doses she removed.
George Louis Garcia, Registered Pharmacy Technician, Sunrise.
Garcia violated Florida Statutes by entering a plea of guilty to one felony count, and was adjudicated guilty of, distribution and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone.
Julie M. Lewis, Certified Nursing Assistant, Pensacola.
Lewis violated Florida Statutes by entering a plea of guilty to one felony count of fraudulent use of credit cards.
Theresa Ann Pressler, Registered Nurse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pressler violated Florida Statutes by engaging in unprofessional conduct by testing positive for morphine for which she did not have a prescription and legitimate medical reason for using such drug.
Jamal Raza, Medical Doctor, Maitland.
Raza violated Florida Statutes by entering a plea of guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a quantity of hydrocodone, a schedule III controlled substance and pled guilty to conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, namely to deliver tramadol and sildenafil citrate.
Kelly J. Snively, Registered Nurse, St. Petersburg.
Snively violated Florida Statutes by engaging in unprofessional conduct by testing positive for marijuana, opiates and meperidine in an employer ordered drug test when she did not have prescriptions for the drugs and admitted that she had been diverting morphine and Demerol from her workplace; failed to comply with the terms of her Intervention Project for Nurses (IPN) monitoring contract by failing to remain free from all mood-altering, controlled or addictive substances; failing to undergo an evaluation after evidence of relapse and by ceasing her IPN participation prior to completion of her IPN monitoring contract.
Dawn M. Sullivan, Licensed Practical Nurse, Osteen.
Sullivan violated Florida Statutes by being arrested and charged with one count of possession of a schedule IV substance and one count of delivery or distribution of a schedule IV substance.
John Windham, Physician Assistant, Lake City.
Windham violated Florida Statutes by making deceptive, untrue or fraudulent representations in his practice as a physician assistant when he deceptively, falsely and fraudulently used a doctor’s pre-signed prescriptions to prescribe controlled substances to himself when he was prohibited by statute from doing so. Windham continued to violate Florida Statutes by being terminated from PRN for failing to comply with the terms of the monitoring contract that he signed on or about November 2008.
Ardavon Moayer, Registered Pharmacy Technician, Lake Mary.
Moayer violated Florida Statutes by entering a plea of guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.
Shawhin Besharat, Registered Pharmacy Technician, Sanford.
Besharat violated Florida Statutes by entering a plea of guilty to one felony count of possession with intent to distribute oxycodone.
Julia M. Smith, Certified Nursing Assistant, St. Petersburg.
Smith violated Florida Statutes by entering a plea of guilty to one felony count of possession of marijuana with intent to sell, manufacture or deliver.
Yusuf Rajabalee, Medical Doctor, Miami.
Rajabalee violated Florida Statutes by pleading guilty to two felony counts of unlawfully, willfully and feloniously and with intent to injure, defraud of deceive an insurance company by knowing presenting or causing to be presented to any insurer, purported insurer, servicing corporation, insurance broker or insurance agent or any employee or agent thereof, any false, incomplete or misleading information or written or oral statement as part of or in support of a claim for payment or other benefit pursuant to an insurance policy, knowing that such statement contained false, incomplete or misleading information concerning any fact or thing material to such claim with regard to the nature of the injury or treatment of patients.
