Faulknor v. Board of Regents

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this court pursuant to Education Law § 6510-a [4]) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Education which revoked petitioner’s registration to practice as a physician’s assistant in New York.

Petitioner, a registered physician’s assistant, was charged with professional misconduct, pursuant to Education Law § 6509 (5) (a) (i), following his conviction upon a plea of guilty of the crime of attempting fraudulently to file, furnish and obtain a diploma purporting to authorize the practice of medicine, a class E felony (Education Law §…