Melbourne GPs banned: Ex Geelong AFL club doctor Chris Bradshaw among deregistered

A Prahran doctor who took “inappropriate genital investigations” and a former doctor who worked at four AFL clubs and had a sexual relationship with a patient are among Victoria’s GPs named, shamed and banned this year. SEE THE LIST.

Kiel Egging

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September 7, 2020 - 6:00AM

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Victoria’s dodgy doctors banned from practising — including one who worked for some big name AFL clubs — have been named and shamed on a national register.

According to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, some of the latest GPs to be deregistered include:

An ex-AFL club doctor from Geelong who had a sexual relationship with a female patient who overdosed on his prescription;
A Prahran doctor who propositioned a patient on a gay dating app; and
A Camberwell doctor who produced fake documents to gain his accreditation and seek employment.

Geelong’s Christopher Bradshaw and Prahran’s Conway Lee are the most recent GPs to be banned, after both were deregistered on May 26.

Bradshaw, who previously worked at AFL clubs including Collingwood, Geelong, Richmond and Melbourne, was banned for more than five years after he was found guilty of sexual misconduct and inappropriately prescribing medications to a patient who later overdosed and died.

Former Geelong AFL doctor Chris Bradshaw had his accreditation stripped in May.

Meanwhile, Lee was banned for six years after two patients complained of “inappropriate genital examinations” and “flirtatious” conversations on male dating app Grindr.

Fitzroy’s Jason Lehr was also banned for a year in May after he used a carriage service to harass a female colleague and sent vile messages after she rejected his advances.

He resigned in late 2017 and doesn’t plan to reapply for his medical registration.

In April, St Kilda’s Jonathan Sutton and former Camberwell surgeon Mohamad Anwar were deregistered.

Anwar was given the most severe penalty this year — an eight-year ban — after he created fake documents to obtain his registration and seek employment.

Mohamad Anwar, who also practised under the name of Faizal Anwar, was banned from practising for eight years.

He left Australia in 2018, and was fined $100,000 in the same year for continuing to treat patients without a registration.

Sutton was banned for two years for “controlling, manipulative and exploitative conduct” which included not referring a patient he had developed feelings for to another GP.

AHPRA spokesman Jamin Robertson said the agency and the Medical Board of Australia welcomed the decisions.

He said the agency published all health practitioners who had been banned since 2010 on its register and only a court or tribunal had the power to cancel registrations.
“A health practitioner whose registration has been cancelled is forbidden from practising the profession or working in any way as a health practitioner in that profession in all Australian states and territories,” Mr Robertson said.

All deregistered GPs must go through the formal accreditation process again if they wish to resume practising once their sentence ends.

According to the register, three other Victorian health professionals have also had their registrations cancelled this year.

They include Stawell nurse Kerry Johnson, Bacchus Marsh nurse and midwife Mary Little, and Warrnambool psychologist Sheridan Meulblok.

VICTORIA’S BANNED MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS SINCE JULY 1, 2019: