Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Update on "Professor" Tonmoy "The Charmer" Sharma

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A British doctor who was stripped of his medical license for conducting unethical drug trials on mentally ill patients is now running an unlicensed San Clemente drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility that focuses on the mentally ill.
The state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs has begun to investigate the facility, Sovereign Health of California, over its lack of license to run a residential treatment program and is reviewing two other complaints about how the facility is run.
Sovereign officials deny any wrongdoing and say a state official told them they did not need a license.
In 2008, the British agency that licenses doctors struck Tonmoy Sharma off the medical register for lying about his academic qualifications and conducting unethical drug studies. About a year later, he became the chief executive officer of Sovereign Health.

The Boarding Pass - June 7, 2011

Captain Larry Smith sits with Dr. Tonmoy Sharma of Sovereign Health Recovery Center to discuss the effects of addiction on the brain.
http://www.beachcitiesradio.com/on-air/tuesday/the-boarding-pass 
Peter Jay, chief executive of a British private investigative agency that focuses on reducing fraud in clinical trials, said he was surprised and disappointed that Sharma was running a treatment facility, even if his role is purely administrative.
"I don't have a problem with people who do wrong in their life and rehabilitate and start doing right," said Jay of MedicoLegal Investigations Ltd. "But what he did showed a totally outrageous disregard for people, a total disrespect for sick people."
MedicoLegal was hired to investigate Sharma by Sanofi-Aventis, a pharmaceutical company that contracted Sharma to conduct research studies in 1999.
"He should not be allowed anywhere near (patients) under any circumstances," Jay said in an e-mail to The Register.
http://articles.ocregister.com/2010-08-20/news/24644891_1_medical-license-mentally-ill-patients-general-medical-council


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's Fucked Up!

Anonymous said...

How long does it take the state of CA to shut this down?

Anonymous said...

How long does this take???My son is in this facility and is all the way on the other side of the united states from his family???What can happen to him?They just diagnosed him as schizoaffective disorder and that is a new thing to us we were always told bi-polar and adhd?

Anonymous said...

We are planning a class action suit against sovereign health. Go to complaintsboard.com and connect with us