Ontario medical regulator wins appeal against own committee’s penalty on doctor
TORONTO — Ontario’s medical regulator has won an appeal of a penalty imposed by its own discipline committee after decrying the independent panel’s “demonstrably unfit” punishment of a Toronto doctor who sexually abused female patients.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario acknowledged it rarely challenges its discipline committee’s decisions, but noted that penalties for such behaviour “must contribute meaningfully to the eradication of sexual abuse in the profession.”
In July 2015, the discipline committee — which makes independent decisions — found Dr. Javad Peirovy sexually abused four female patients and engaged in disgraceful conduct with a fifth. The incidents took place in 2009 and 2010. Peirovy also has a criminal conviction for assault related to two of those patients.
The discipline committee handed Peirovy a six-month suspension and imposed restrictions on his practice for 12 months. It also ordered him to take training and pay $64,000 for therapy for the victims.