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News Release — May 13, 2004
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
May 13, 2004
Medical Board Revokes License of Pasadena Physician
SACRAMENTO— The Medical Board of California has revoked the medical license of Kevin P. Anderson, M.D., of Pasadena effective May 12, 2004. Anderson was convicted of second degree murder in November 2000. It was further found that in the commission of the act, Anderson personally inflicted injury on his victim when he knew, or should have known, she was pregnant and that the injury would result in the termination of her pregnancy. Based on the conviction and incarceration, Anderson's medical license was automatically suspended by the Medical Board until a hearing could be held, or until further order by the Medical Board's Division of Medical Quality. On November 27, 2000, Anderson was found guilty and was sentenced on March 8, 2001 to state prison for a period of 20 years to life.
On November 11, 1999 Anderson had his lover, a fellow pediatrician and prospective business partner, meet him on the hillside in the Angeles National Forest. The two had been having an affair for several months and the victim was approximately six weeks pregnant. The victim joined Anderson in his vehicle and an argument ensued, purportedly regarding his decision to back out of the planned business venture. He subsequently strangled the victim, first with his hands, then with a necktie. He then drove her vehicle to the brink of the cliff, carried her back to her vehicle and positioned her body at the driver's seat. Anderson proceeded to douse her body with gasoline thinking that her death would appear accidental if the vehicle caught on fire. Before he could light a match, however, the vehicle began rolling down the hill and he quickly jumped out of her vehicle, returned to his own and sped away from the scene. A passerby alerted the authorities after noticing a vehicle being suspiciously pushed over the cliff. The responding paramedics located the vehicle and pronounced the victim, who had been thrown from her vehicle, dead at the scene. Anderson was soon thereafter located on the Angeles Crest Highway where he was trying to free his vehicle, which had struck a dirt berm.
Anderson was ordered by the court to pay a restitution fine in the amount of $1,000 and in a subsequent hearing on August 1, 2001, was ordered to pay restitution to the victim's family in the amount of $42,611.
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The mission of the Medical Board is to protect healthcare consumers through the proper licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons and certain allied healthcare professions and through the vigorous, objective enforcement of the Medical Practice Act.
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