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News Release — September 21, 2005
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
September 21, 2005
Medical Board Accusation Leads to
Surrender of Redlands Physician's Medical License
SACRAMENTO—Facing a formal Accusation of wrongdoing by the Medical Board of California, Redlands physician Robert Paul Iacono, M.D. agreed to surrender his license to practice medicine. The stipulated surrender of his medical license was ordered on September 12, 2005 and became effective on September 19, 2005. Medical Board Executive Director David Thornton stated, "The mission of the Medical Board is to protect healthcare consumers. We work diligently to achieve our mission by vigorously enforcing the Medical Practice Act."
Iacono is accused of making dishonest and false statements on an application for hospital privileges and general unprofessional conduct in violation of Business and Professions Code sections 2234, 2234(e) and 2261. The Loma Linda University Medical Center suspended Iacono's staff privileges effective September 14, 1999 for 20 days and also required him to complete anger management therapy, after a third formal staff complaint regarding an incident in the operating room alleging abusive behavior and grabbing or hitting a technician's hand during a procedure.
Iacono further subjected his license to discipline when in December 2001, he responded "no" to a question on an application for privileges at Desert Regional Medical Center, in asking whether he had ever had his clinical privileges ".denied, suspended, restricted, reduced, subject to probationary conditions, revoked or not renewed for possible incompetence, improper professional conduct or breach of contract, or is any such action pending."
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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.
If you have a question or complaint about the healthcare you are receiving, the board encourages you to visit its Web site at www.caldocinfo.ca.gov or for questions call the Consumer Information Line at (916) 263-2382, or with complaints call (800) 633-2322.
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