In a unanimous decision, the board denied Dr. Nami Bayan’s request for reconsideration following a brief hearing Wednesday morning.

Bayan was seeking to have the revocation sent to a hearing on claims that state Department of Public Health (DPH) staff “tampered with evidence” and the board disregarded information that showed he had largely complied with the terms of a two-year suspension, documents show.

“This action is an obvious crime,” said Bayan who added that information on his therapy was “neglected and wrongfully dismissed.”

Bayan’s license to practice medicine was suspended in 2019 and he was ordered to participate in therapy sessions at least twice a month after he exhibited signs of a mental health issue, a disciplinary report said.

But DPH investigators concluded that he had missed several months of required therapy while he was out of the country from July 2020 to March 2021, according to documents.

“It’s not in dispute that Dr. Bayan failed to attend therapy during that lengthy period of time,” said DPH attorney Diane Wilan during Wednesday’s hearing.

“The decision (to revoke his license) was based on his failure to attend therapy and provide reports,” Wilan added.

Bayan did not notify the DPH or seek permission to miss treatment when he went out of the country for nearly eight months, Wilan said.

The board voted Dec. 21 to revoke Bayan’s license, following a hearing on whether he violated the terms of his discipline.

Bayan, a surgeon who worked at H & B Quality Medical Care in Shelton, has been under scrutiny since 2018 when he sent repeated e-mails to DPH indicating he believed the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were investigating the possibility of a terrorist attack based on a report he made, documents said.

The board temporarily suspended his license in December 2018, citing that Bayan “presented a clear and immediate danger to public health and safety.”

Bayan argued in documents and during the hearing on his request for reconsideration that an initial diagnosis from a DPH required mental health examination was erroneous and he had “no sign of a major psychiatric issue and there was no need for intense psychiatric treatment.”

He could challenge the 2018 suspension and the diagnosis by again seeking reconsideration if there were a change in conditions such as new information had come to light, Attorney Kerry Colson with the Office of Attorney General William Tong said.

Bayan could also apply for reinstatement after demonstrating that he attended therapy and was fit to practice, board members said.

On Dec. 21, the board revoked the medical license of Dr. Nami Bayan, which had been under suspension since May 1, 2019. Bayan’s license to practice medicine was initially suspended for two years and he was ordered to participate in therapy sessions at least twice a month after he exhibited signs of a mental health issue, a disciplinary report said.

In 2018 Bayan, a surgeon who worked at H & B Quality Medical Care in Shelton, had sent repeated e-mails to the state Department of Public Health (DPH) indicating he believed the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were investigating the possibility of a terrorist attack based on a report he made, documents said. The board temporarily suspended his license in December 2018, saying Bayan “presented a clear and immediate danger to public health and safety.”

DPH investigators learned in 2020 that Bayan had violated the terms of the 2019 discipline by failing to show up for therapy sessions over the course of months, documents said. After a hearing on whether Bayan violated the terms of his discipline, the board voted to revoke his license permanently.

The board also reprimanded the license of Dr. Michael Imevbore, a pulmonary physician with CT Pulmonary Specialists in New Haven, and required him to pay a $5,000 fine after a DPH investigation found that he failed to check the state’s prescription monitoring and reporting system before writing prescriptions for more than 200 patients between July 2018 and May 2020, documents said.

Imevbore also wrote controlled substance prescriptions for another 70 patients, but only checked the state’s prescription monitoring program for half of them, from May 2020 to November 2020, investigators concluded. Since December of 2020 he has properly used the reporting system, DHP officials said.

Under the consent order approved by the board, Imevbore will be on probation for a year, during which he is required to have 20% of his patient files reviewed for his use of the prescription reporting system. The state Department of Consumer Protection Drug Control Division, which runs the prescription monitoring program, will do two random audits of his compliance with the system in the next year, the order said.

The board also fined three other physicians.

Dr. J. James Bruno II, of Urology Associates in Danbury, was fined $1,000 after he failed to meet the standard of care by not reviewing a scan before he performed a cystoscopy on a patient in 2019 to remove a kidney stone. The scan revealed that the kidney stone had been passed prior to the procedure, documents said. The board also reprimanded Bruno’s license.

Dr. Rania Rifaey, of Avon, was fined $1,000 after injecting numbing medication and other drugs used to treat inflammation on the wrong side of a patient suffering from bursitis in October of 2018, documents said. Rifaey’s license was also reprimanded.

Dr. Murray Wellner was fined $1,000 and his license placed on probation for nine months after an investigation found that he had used illegible handwriting to document the files of at least three patients from 2013 to 2020, according to DPH.

During the probationary period, Wellner, a West Hartford physician, will have to undergo a review of 20% of his patient files to check for legibility, the consent order said. Wellner had been previously disciplined by the board in 2011 after an investigation revealed he had inappropriately prescribed a drug to treat attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder for eight patients who didn’t need the treatment.

The board also reprimanded the Connecticut license of a physician who was disciplined by California authorities for diagnosing and treating patients through telehealth without proper assessment and evaluation, documents said.

Dr. Ho Dzung Anh, a physician practicing in California, was disciplined in California after he prescribed antibiotics for two undercover investigators posing as telehealth patients, documents said. Anh holds medical licenses in several states, the DPH said.

The first two years of the probation runs at the same time as the suspension, which will be followed by two years of probation, the board’s memorandum of decision states.

During the probation, Dr. Nami Bayan must see a therapist. After the suspension ends, Bayan will not be allowed to have a solo practice and must practice medicine in a setting with other physicians during the probation, the order said.

In July, the state Department of Public Health had ordered Bayan to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he had sent emails to the department alleging “corruption and organized crime” in the U.S. medical system, law enforcement and DPH, the memo said. He also made anti-Semitic comments in emails, the memo said.

Dr. Arturo Morales, a Hartford psychiatrist, examined Bayan and testified at a hearing in January that Bayan was loud, threatening, overbearing, paranoid and not responding to logic, the memo said. Morales said medication Bayan has been on following a head injury in 2011 may be affecting his condition, the memo said.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Bayan accused the hearing panel members, the board and DPH of treating him unfairly and damaging his career without evidence.

“There’s something wrong here,” he said. “There is a strong bias against me.”

He added “I’m not an anti-Semite” and “you are making trouble for me…you should have proof for everything.”

The board also reprimanded Dr. David Polke, a Naugatuck obstetrician and gynecologist, for failing to meet the standard of care when he failed to retain a patient’s non-stress test monitoring strips as part of her medical record, state records show. He had treated the patient in 2014 and 2015.

DPH began an investigation of Polke in 2017 when the patient’s attorney filed a complaint. In signing a consent order with the board, Polke chose not to contest the allegation.

The board also ordered Anita Mir, the owner of Spa Dior in Waterbury, to stop practicing medicine or surgery without a license. In May, DPH received a complaint that Mir performed cosmetic medical procedures, including laser hair removal and cavitation – a non-invasive alternative to liposuction, without a license, a consent order she agreed to said.

Mir also referred to herself as medical director of the spa, the order said. She agreed to the order while not admitting any wrongdoing and said she did not intentionally refer to herself as the medical director. She said her staff made a mistake when ordering her business cards that included that title.

In 2017, Dr. Jean-Francois Geschwind of Westport pleaded guilty to four counts of mail fraud arising from his scheme to unlawfully obtain travel expenses from Johns Hopkins, where he was a radiologist, according to the U.S. attorney in Maryland.

Geschwind fraudulently received reimbursement for trips to the United Kingdom, France and Japan when some of the expenses were for family vacations and meals, the U.S. attorney said. He was ordered to pay fine of $75,000 and an assessment of  $400 and restitution of $583,484, Connecticut and Maryland records show.

A liver cancer researcher, Geschwind wrote to the Connecticut board that in 2015, he was recruited by Yale to become its new chair of the radiology department. He voluntarily surrendered his Connecticut license after his arrest in 2017, but wrote that he wants to once again treat cancer patients in Connecticut.

The board Tuesday recommended reprimanding him and placing his license on probation for a year and recommended that the state Department of Public Health require him to take a course in ethics.

The board also reprimanded and fined a Glastonbury doctor $7,500 and permanently restricted him from performing surgery, including giving cosmetic injections, under a consent order he agreed to.

In 2015, Dr. Bruce Burnham failed to appropriately treat a patient’s anxiety and panic disorder and inappropriately prescribed an anti-anxiety drug for the patient, the order said. From 2016 to 2017, he failed to obtain informed consent for procedures on six patients and failed to maintain adequate treatment records, the order said.

During an inspection in 2017, state officials also found improper infection controls in his office, saying he failed to properly sterilize instruments, properly maintain equipment and properly store controlled substances, the order said. Burnham also used expired solutions and medications, the order said.

Burnham, who was ordered to hire a physician to monitor his practice, paid the fine but admitted no wrongdoing.

The board reprimanded and fined a Bridgeport doctor $3,500 after an investigation found there were lapses in his care for a patient who developed liver cancer and died before the investigation was finished, state records show. The patient had complained to the state about Dr. Anton Chinniah’s treatment of her Hepatitis C, state records show.

A consent order that Chinniah agreed to says that between 2010 and 2014, he failed to properly treat the patient’s Hepatitis C and liver disease, failed to properly refer the patient to specialists and failed to maintain adequate treatment records.

Chinniah has already paid the fine and completed courses in the care of Hepatitis C patients, state records show. By signing the consent order, Chinniah admitted no wrongdoing but chose not to contest the allegations.

The board also suspended the license of Dr. Nami Bayan of Shelton, saying his practice of medicine poses a danger to the public, state records show. The statement of charges against Bayan said that in 2018, he suffered an emotional disorder or mental illness that affects his ability to safely practice medicine.

The board also fined three doctors at Connecticut Addiction Medicine in Rocky Hill $1,000 each for improperly delegating the injection of a drug that helps reduce relapses in drug or alcohol abuse to unlicensed medical assistants, state records show. Patients were injected by the assistants in 2015 and 2016.

While admitting no wrongdoing, Dr. Edith Hergan of Rocky Hill, Dr. Jay Benson of Avon and Dr. Mahboob Aslam of Rocky Hill, chose not to contest the allegations, according to consent orders each of them signed.

This story originally reported that Dr. Jean-Francois Gerschwind served a year and a day in prison. He served nine months. The story also incorrectly reported that he paid a $475,000 fine. The fine was $75,000 with a $400 assessment.