The case revolves around Dr. Trozzi who appealed against the decision of the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal. The tribunal found Dr. Trozzi guilty of professional misconduct in relation to his public statements, vaccine exemptions, and lack of cooperation. He challenged the penalty imposed on him by the tribunal which included the revocation of his medical license.
On October 16, 2024, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (“OPSDT”) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (“CPSO”) dismissed the motions of two physicians, Dr. Rochagné Kilian and Dr. Sonja Sophia Kustka, who refused to produce medical records as part of an investigation into their COVID-19 vaccine exemption practice.
In a decision released dated March 28, 2024, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) suspended the medical license of Dr. Heung-Wing Li, a family doctor, for improperly taking payment for completing Accessible Parking Permit (APP) applications for patients. Further, for some of these patients, his charts did not contain health documentation supporting eligibility for an APP.
In a decision released February 27, 2024, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) suspended the medical license of diagnostic radiologist Dr. Ashley John Mercado for having conducted hundreds of unauthorized searches of confidential health records that were outside his circle of care.
On January 25 and 29, 2024, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) released two separate penalty decisions relating to the conduct of physicians during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
In a decision released on January 19, 2024, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) found that Dr. Caroline Anne Turek had made unprofessional comments on social media and other online forums about the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a decision released on November 20, 2023, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) found that Dr. Javad Peirovy failed to comply with 2016 practice restrictions arising from the sexual abuse of 4 patients.
On October 6, 2023, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) found that Dr. Mark Raymond Trozzi, a physician from northern Ontario, had made misleading, incorrect or inflammatory statements about vaccinations, treatments and public health measures for COVID-19 in social media postings on his website and in interviews.
On September 1, 2023, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (“OPSDT”) ordered an 18 month medical license suspension against a general surgeon, Dr. Biagio Iannantuono for taking advantage of his position at a hospital to arrange for a female ultrasound technician (“Ms. X”) to perform an intimate procedure on him in an inappropriate manner.
On August 24, 2023, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (“OPSDT”) ordered a 5 month medical license suspension to a family doctor, Dr. Sadiqa Karim, because she accessed Ontario healthcare services for herself while living out of country over a period of three years.
On July 14, 2023, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (“OPSDT”) revoked the medical license of Dr. Patrick Brian Philips for statements made online about the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Philips was a family and emergency medicine doctor who practiced in Northern Ontario. This decision comes a week after another physician, Dr. Crystal Luchiw, was ordered to be disciplined by the OPSDT for failing to cooperate in an investigation into her COVID-19 vaccine exemption practice.
On July 13, 2023, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (“OPSDT”) revoked the medical license of Dr. Albert Kadri, a nephrologist from Windsor, in addition to ordering him to pay $250,510 in costs as a result of a previous finding that he had committed professional misconduct and that he was incompetent.
