discipline summaries
procedures until after the College investigation.
The Committee accepted the order as jointly proposed and agreed that the penalty of revocation of
Dr. Shum’s certificate of registration was appropriate
given the facts of this case. The Committee took the
mitigating factors into account in ordering that Dr.
Shum should pay costs to the College for a single day
of hearing at the tariff rate.
Order
The Discipline Committee ordered and directed that:
1. he Registrar revoke Dr. Shum’s certificate of regist
tration effective immediately.
2. Dr. Shum attend before the panel to be reprimanded.
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3. r. Shum pay to the College costs in the amount of
$4,460 within 30 days of the date of this Order.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Dr. Shum waived his
right to an appeal and the Committee administered the
public reprimand.
DR. JERRY TENNEN
Practice Location: Toronto
Area of Practice: Psychiatry
Hearing Information: Statement of Agreed Facts and
Admission, Joint Submission on Penalty
On November 18, 2013, the Discipline Committee
found that Dr. Tennen committed an act of professional misconduct, in that he failed to maintain the
standard of practice of the profession, and in conduct or an act or omission relevant to the practice of
medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances,
would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional. Dr. Tennen
admitted the allegations.
Dr. Tennen treated Patient A from 1997 to 1999.
On occasion, he ended his therapy sessions with
Patient A by placing his arm around her shoulder or
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