DISCIPLINE SUMMARIES
the Registrar of the College. Dr. Kaminski was also
ordered to pay costs to the College in the amount of
$5,500.
For complete details, please see the full decision at
www.cpso.on.ca. Select Find a Doctor and enter the
doctor’s name.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Dr. Kaminski waived
his right to an appeal and the Committee administered
the public reprimand.
DR. KAVERI MANIAN KAVERI SELVAN
PRACTICE LOCATION: Brampton
AREA OF PRACTICE: General Practice
HEARING INFORMATION: Plea of No Contest; Statement
of Uncontested Facts; Joint Submission on Penalty
On November 6, 2017, the Discipline Committee
found that Dr. Kaveri Selvan committed an act of
professional misconduct, in that he engaged in con-
duct 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 dis-
graceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional.
Dr. Kaveri Selvan received his certificate of regis-
tration authorizing independent practice in Ontario
in February 2011. Between August 2011 and July
2012, he practised part-time at the Bur Oak Medical
Centre (BOMC).
DISGRACEFUL, DISHONOURABLE, OR
UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
On a late evening in November 2012, Dr. Kaveri
Selvan returned home from work to find a fam-
ily member had unexpectedly left the family home
with his two young children. Dr. Kaveri Selvan was
advised that to secure the return of his children, he
would need to bring a motion before family court
and provide support for his position that the children
should be placed in his care and custody.
The next day, Dr. Kaveri Selvan went to BOMC
and showed the assistant on duty photographs on
his phone of his family member’s consultation report
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prepared by her treating specialist at the hospital. Dr.
Kaveri Selvan asked if there was a copy of this report
in the family member’s BOMC chart. He was advised
that the family member’s chart did not contain a
copy of the report.
Without her consent, Dr. Kaveri Selvan then
requested the family member’s records and signed
his own name above the line that says “Signature of
Patient” on the requisition form. The requisition was
subsequently faxed to the hospital by BOMC.
Dr. Kaveri Selvan left BOMC with copies of some
records from the family member’s BOMC chart,
containing her personal health information. He did
not have the family member’s consent to receive her
records from the hospital or BOMC. He did not
return to BOMC to retrieve copies of the hospital
records that were the subject of the requisition he
had signed.
On the same day, Dr. Kaveri Selvan also requested
and received a copy of his family member’s prescrip-
tion history from the Bur Oak Discount Pharmacy
without her consent.
The following day, Dr. Kaveri Selvan filed an emer-
gency motion in the family court seeking the return
of his children and attached copies of the family
member’s medical records he received from BOMC
and from the pharmacy. He did not have the con-
sent of the family member to file these records with
the court. He was not represented by a lawyer at the
time. Dr. Kaveri Selvan was initially not successful in
securing the return of his children, despite his mo-
tion and continued proceedings before the court.
Dr. Kaveri Selvan subsequently obtained a letter
from BOMC, dated November 16, 2012, including
information about his family member, which was
written on BOMC’s primary physician’s letterhead,
bearing the primary physician’s stamp and what ap-
peared to be the primary physician’s signature. He
did not have the consent of the family member to
obtain this letter.
In the next two months, Dr. Kaveri Selvan brought a
new motion before the court for the return of his chil-
dren and included copies of the family member’s medi-
cal and pharmacy records and a copy of the November
16, 2012 letter. He did not have the consent of the
family member to file these records with the court.
Pursuant to court orders, custody of Dr. Kaveri