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Update (November 2): Sapan Desai has requested that his newly obtained Ohio medical license be inactivated, according to documents obtained by The Scientist. In correspondence sent a few days after this story was published, Desai wrote to the State Medical Board of Ohio that he would “not be practicing medicine in the state of Ohio.”
Sapan Desai, the embattled vascular surgeon and CEO of the now-defunct Surgisphere Corporation, has inactivated his medical license in one state and obtained a license in another.
Each US state has its own licensing board, and generally a doctor requires an in-state license to practice medicine there—although Illinois is one of many states that is granting emergency authorization to some out-of-state physicians in response to the COVID-19 crisis, provided they have an active license and are in good standing.
According to public records held by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional ...
