Posada v. New York State Department of Health

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Kavanagh, J.), entered July 26, 2006 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, dismissed the petition as moot.

In February 2004, a decision by the Hearing Committee of the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct determined that petitioner, a surgeon, had committed acts of negligence on more than one occasion and sanctioned petitioner with a two-year suspension of his license to practice medicine. The sanction was stayed, and petitioner was instead placed on probation, with a practice monitor. For reasons more fully…