SUMMARY SUSPENSIONS: DO BOARDS USE THIS AUTHORITY APPROPRIATELY?

On July 17, 2011, The Saint Louis Post Dispatch carried an editorial pointing out that In twenty-five years, the [Missouri] medical board has not one time used its authority to summarily suspend a license of a dangerous doctor. This is not the case in Rhode Island, where the medical board frequently uses its power to impose a summary suspension. At this session, an individual who has been with Rhode Island medical board for many years, including a stint when he served as the boards general counsel, explained the rationale behind his boards willingness to utilize its summary suspension powers.

Presenter:
Bruce McIntyre
Acting Chief Administrative Officer
Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline

Bruce McIntyre has been with the Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline since 1991, serving initially as its General Counsel and currently as its Acting Chief Administrative Officer. His legal expertise is in the areas of medical regulation of Physicians, Physician Assistants, Chiropractic Physicians, and the Healing Art of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Additionally, he advises the Director of Health on Legal and Legislative Issues, serves as a Hearing Officer for Board of Pharmacy, Board of Nursing, Certificate of Need, and other Department of Health divisions. He was recently a member of the Federation of State Medical Boards, Board of Directors. He has chaired the Bar Associations Confidential Assistance Committee for lawyers in crisis and the Ralph P. Semonoff Award Committee for Professionalism at the Rhode Island Bar Association. He is also a member of the Bar of the United States District Court for the First Circuit and of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

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