The state Department of Health has permanently revoked a Monsey physician's license after finding that he had exhibited gross negligence and gross incompetence in his practice.
The state Office of Professional Medical Conduct recently held a hearing on the status of Dr. Paul S. Sender; his license had been suspended a year ago.
After the hearing, the board concluded it had "no confidence in his ability to practice medicine safely and must protect the people of New York State from him."
The ruling, dated May 30, was made public yesterday. The revocation goes into effect Thursday.
Sender worked briefly at the Monsey Family Medical Center, where officials said a year ago that he had been placed on leave before his state license suspension.
Sharon Milner, the center's executive director, was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Sender also had a practice in Teaneck, N.J.
New York health officials first suspended Sender's license after New Jersey officials concluded he constituted "an imminent danger to the health, safety and welfare of patients," according to documents. Sender also was licensed to practice medicine in that state.
None of the cases involved New York patients.
The New Jersey Medical Practitioners Review Panel asked Sender to discuss his care and treatment of seven patients in April 2005.
The panel concluded his treatment constituted "gross and repeated acts of negligence, malpractice or incompetence."
Sender defended his medical decisions to New Jersey officials as proper, according to records.
New York officials held a hearing last month, and the latest decision was based on that hearing.
Sender defended the care he gave his New Jersey patients to the New York state board, according to state records.
"This refusal to accept responsibility for these many serious problems with (his) practice of medicine," the board wrote in its decision, "causes this Hearing Committee to conclude that there is reason to believe that (he) would continue to provide substandard medical care."
Sender graduated from the Hahnemann University School of Medicine in 1981 and was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1984, according to state records. He was licensed as a physician in New York in 1982.
Attempts to reach Sender were unsuccessful.
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