Saporito v. State Board for Professional Medical Conduct

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this Court pursuant to Public Health Law § 230-c [5]) to review a determination of a Hearing Committee of respondent which granted petitioner’s request for restoration of his licence to practice medicine, subject to certain conditions.

Petitioner, a board-certified anesthesiologist, was licensed to practice medicine in New York in 2004. In August 2008, he was observed injecting himself with Fentanyl, a highly addictive opiate, while in an operating room awaiting a surgery in which he was to participate. He promptly entered inpatient…