Boards of Registration in Medicine and Other Healthcare Boards of Registration

Dwyer & Collora, LLP has represented licensed health care professionals before nearly every licensing board in the Commonwealth. While these boards are governed by statutes and regulations, they also enjoy broad discretion in fulfilling their mandate to protect the public and police their respective professions. We approach these boards with counsel who have an intimate knowledge of each board's structure, policies, and traditions; their knowledge, expertise, and reputation can be essential to creating a prompt and favorable outcome.

Representative case areas include:

• Responding to complaints filed against physicians, pharmacists, dentists, nurses, chiropractors, social workers, and other licensed professionals alleging professional misconduct, substandard care, and criminal conduct. Often these complaints have been dismissed after the presentation of persuasive evidence to the boards' complaint committees. Dwyer & Collora LLP has negotiated consent orders and probation sentences that allow practitioners to continue to practice.
• Assisting physicians and other licensed health care practitioners in responding to inquiries regarding disclosures made in license applications and reports submitted by health care facilities. Frequently, these responses have resulted in boards deciding not to pursue the matter, or to focus their attention on remediation rather than discipline.
• Assisting physicians and other licensed professionals charged with drug or alcohol impairment in obtaining consent orders which contain practice or probation agreements designed to improve the licensee's practice or assist in their recovery, while permitting them to continue their professional practice.
• Trying cases before the Division of Administrative Law Appeals when an appropriate resolution has not been possible at the Complaint Committee. One such case resulted in complete exoneration for a neurosurgeon who was alleged to have been negligent in the conduct of twenty-two surgeries. Another resulted in the exoneration of a physician charged with sexual misconduct.
• Representing physicians against whom a civil malpractice complaint has been instituted. Coordinating with counsel appointed by the physician's insurer, attorneys at Dwyer & Collora, LLP frequently handle Board of Registration inquires, ensure that physicians are afforded the full scope of protection they are entitled to under their insurance policy, and monitor the progress of the civil case to ensure that nothing prejudices the physician's standing before the Board of Registration. 

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