State Board of Medical Examiners Revokes License of New Jersey Doctor Whose Practice of Aesthetic Medicine Allegedly Posed Grave Risk to Public

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the State Board of Medical Examiners permanently revoked the license of an Essex County physician who allegedly traveled to dozens of offices in New Jersey and neighboring states to perform invasive aesthetic procedures with inadequate formal training and little regard for the health and safety of his patients.

The physician, a board-certified internist from Cedar Grove, has not practiced medicine in New Jersey since his license was temporarily suspended in 2021 amid allegations that his practice of aesthetic medicine posed a clear and imminent danger to the public due to his inadequate knowledge base in this specialty, as well as his deficient storage of supplies, inappropriate selection of an injectable dermal filler, poor record-keeping, and substandard office settings.

The State alleged that the physician grossly deviated from accepted standards of medicine with conduct that included the “off label” use of certain dermal fillers to perform penile injections, which allegedly caused permanent physical harm to a patient; to inject near patients’ eyes, which, when done incorrectly, can lead to permanent blindness; and to inject filler into patients’ breasts, which can obfuscate patients’ mammogram results.

In a Final Consent Order filed with the Board, the physician agreed to the permanent revocation of his medical license to resolve the allegations against him.

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