Doctors and other prescribers who faced action by a licensing board, college, tribunal or certifying body in which prescribing or promoting ivermectin was part of the stated grounds — and what each record actually says.
Finding Agreed / undertaking Interim order Certification board Stayed by court
Finding = misconduct found, or a sanction imposed, by a board or tribunal. Agreed / undertaking = a settlement, consent order or promise to the regulator; not a contested finding. Interim order = restriction before any hearing; the later finding was on other grounds. Certification board = loss of specialty certification, not a licence. Stayed by court = penalty suspended pending review.
| Practitioner & regulator | Date | What the record says about ivermectin | Outcome and status | Type | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | |||||
| Ryan Cole, MDWashington Medical Commission; Idaho Board of Medicine | Jan 2024; May 2025 | Prescribed ivermectin by telemedicine to four Washington patients without examination, history or documented consent; also found to have made demonstrably false or misleading public statements on COVID-19, vaccines and ivermectin. | WA licence restricted to pathology, no prescribing, $5,000 fine, education. Idaho adopted the WA order. He denies the allegations. | Finding | WMC order Idaho Capital Sun |
| Richard Wilkinson, MDWashington Medical Commission; WA Court of Appeals | Aug 2023; Sep 2025 | Negligent care of seven COVID-19 patients, all prescribed ivermectin, often without documented consent or disclosure that the use was off-label; one was taking veterinary paste. Several were hospitalised and two died. | 5 years' probation, ivermectin restriction, $15,000 fine. Court of Appeals upheld the patient-care discipline but reversed sanctions for his blog posts (First Amendment). Final. | Finding | WMC order Court of Appeals |
| Michael Turner, MDWashington Medical Commission | 2024 | Prescribed ivermectin for COVID-19 to five patients without an established physician-patient relationship, adequate evidence or informed consent; one patient died. Failed to cooperate with the investigation. | Barred from prescribing ivermectin for COVID-19, $5,000 fine, education. He disputes that his care contributed to the death. New 2026 charges are listed below as allegations. | Finding | WMC order |
| Wei-Hsung Lin, MDWashington Medical Commission | 2024 | Agreed order citing failure to meet the standard of care for five patients given ivermectin for COVID-19 or long-COVID symptoms. | Barred from off-label ivermectin; education, audits, fine. | Agreed / undertaking | WMC order |
| Guito Wingfield, MDWashington Medical Commission | Jul 2023; Oct 2024 | Prescribed ivermectin to five COVID-19 patients without documented rationale, off-label disclosure or risk analysis. | Licence restricted, barred from off-label ivermectin (2023); suspended indefinitely in Oct 2024 for not complying with that order. He denies unprofessional conduct. | Finding | Becker's Chronicle |
| Scott Miller, PAWashington Medical Commission | Oct 2021; Oct 2022 | Charges cited a public ivermectin campaign and prescribing it, labelled as a head-lice prescription, to a COVID-19 patient he never examined, who later died. | Summary suspension 2021; indefinite suspension in the 2022 final order. Sought judicial review; no outcome found. | Finding | WMC The Columbian |
| Meryl Nass, MDMaine Board of Licensure in Medicine | Jan 2022; Dec 2023 | Telehealth prescribing of ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine to three patients; 8 of 13 counts proven, including a false diagnosis given to a pharmacist. Misinformation counts were dropped in 2022. | Reprimands, suspension to Apr 2025 or until conditions met, 2 years' probation, costs. A state court voided the psychological-evaluation condition (Oct 2025); her federal suit continues on that point. | Finding | Maine Monitor |
| Scott Rollins, MDColorado Medical Board | Jan 2023 | Admitted unprofessional conduct in prescribing ivermectin to three patients without disclosing risks or discussing FDA-approved treatments. | Stipulation: indefinite probation. | Agreed / undertaking | CBS Colorado |
| Mary Talley Bowden, MDTexas Medical Board; Houston Methodist Hospital | Nov 2021; Oct–Dec 2025 | Hospital suspended her privileges over posts it called dangerous misinformation, including ivermectin promotion. The board case arose from her attempt to have ivermectin given to a patient at a hospital where she had no privileges. | Board reprimand, on the ground of acting without privileges rather than ivermectin itself. Her suit against the board is pending in Travis County. | Finding | Texas Tribune NBC News |
| Pierre Kory, MD; Paul Marik, MDAmerican Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) | Aug 2024 | FLCCC co-founders and the leading ivermectin promoters. ABIM's reported ground is spreading false or inaccurate medical information; ABIM's own wording does not name ivermectin. | Board certifications revoked; internal appeal lost. This is certification, not a licence; no state licence action found. | Certification board | MDedge UNMC |
| Canada | |||||
| Tshipita Kabongo, MDCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan | Sep 2024 | Admitted the charge of prescribing ivermectin to three patients (Apr 2020 – Mar 2022). The only Canadian physician with an adjudicated finding in which ivermectin prescribing was itself a charge. | Reprimand, one-month suspension, supervision, $44,783 costs. A separate Dec 2024 hearing found inadequate skill and knowledge; retraining ordered. | Finding | CPSS Council decision, Sep 2024 QuackeryWatch |
| Helen Natalie Kroeker, NPCollege of Nurses of Ontario | Jul 2025 | Found to have engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable and unprofessional conduct by prescribing ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and others for COVID-19 contrary to scientific evidence (Dec 2021 – Jan 2022). | Eight-month suspension, reprimand, remedial education. Register: Not Entitled to Practise. | Finding | CNO Discipline decision, 24 Jul 2025 QuackeryWatch |
| Mark Trozzi, MDOntario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal; Divisional Court | Oct 2023; Jan 2024; Nov 2024 | Misconduct and incompetence findings included COVID-19 misinformation, among it encouraging people to take ivermectin, plus exemptions and non-cooperation. (Per case summaries; court reasons not read.) | Licence revoked, costs. Divisional Court dismissed his appeal (2024 ONSC 6096). | Finding | Paul Cahill case note Todayville |
| Wilhelmus Grobler, MDCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba | Jun 2022 | Prescribed ivermectin (June 2021) when he knew or ought to have known it was not indicated; also treated for myocarditis without sufficient evidence and breached an undertaking. | Censure; $6,165 costs. Note: the prescription predated the College's Sept 2021 ivermectin guidance. | Finding | CPSM censure, 29 Jun 2022 QuackeryWatch |
| Clifford Rosen, MDCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario | Apr 2023 | Undertaking given during a College investigation of his prescribing of ivermectin for COVID-19: “I will not prescribe ivermectin.” | Practice limited to anaesthesia, inspections, courses. No disciplinary finding. | Agreed / undertaking | CPSO register QuackeryWatch |
| Vinod Nair, MDCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario | Jun 2022; Apr 2023 | Undertaking not to prescribe ivermectin, given during an investigation of his ivermectin prescribing. He wrote the prescription in the Toronto Star's undercover telehealth buy. | Practice limited to anaesthesiology; must post and read aloud a notice of the restriction to patients. No disciplinary finding. | Agreed / undertaking | CPSO register QuackeryWatch |
| Patrick Phillips, MDCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario | Sep 2021; Jun 2023 | Interim order barred him from prescribing ivermectin, fluvoxamine and atorvastatin for COVID-19. | Licence revoked June 2023 (2023 ONPSDT 16) on uncontested facts, but the findings concern conduct and non-compliance, not ivermectin. | Interim order | QuackeryWatch |
| Akbar Khan, MDCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario | Jan 2022 | Interim restriction from prescribing ivermectin and issuing vaccine exemptions. | Licence later revoked over his cancer practice (DCA), not over ivermectin. | Interim order | QuackeryWatch |
| Katie Johnston, acupuncturistCollege of Complementary Health Professionals of BC | Oct 2026 | Prescribed ivermectin with no authority to prescribe, and veterinary fenbendazole; altered patient records after being notified of the investigation. | Consent order: two-month suspension, reprimand, education, one year of random audits. | Agreed / undertaking | CCHPBC consent order, 20 Oct 2026 QuackeryWatch |
| Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere | |||||
| Bruce Dooley, MDNZ Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal | Mar 2026 | Prescribed and supplied compounded ivermectin to large numbers of people (Nov 2021 – Mar 2022) and emailed patients promoting it as safe and highly effective for COVID-19. | Professional misconduct; registration cancelled (reported Mar 2026), with censure and education conditions sought. | Finding | NZ Doctor Stuff |
| Sophie Febery, MDNZ Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal | Jul 2025 | Prescribed ivermectin to 29 patients and tried to import 2,000 tablets in 2021, contrary to the Medicines Act; admitted. | Malpractice and negligence; censure, course, about NZ$67,000 costs. | Finding | Otago Daily Times |
| Caroline Wheeler, MDNZ Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal | Sep 2026 | Prescribed ivermectin for COVID-19 against accepted guidance and without properly recorded consent; one patient was later hospitalised with seizures. | Professional misconduct; censure. Retired. | Finding | NZ City Stuff |
| Andrew Foong, MDNSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (HCCC complaint) | Mar 2026 | Prescribed ivermectin combined with other drugs without clinical justification, with inadequate notes; exemption certificates; self-prescribing. | Professional misconduct found ([2026] NSWCATOD 29). Protective orders pending. | Finding | HCCC |
| Georgina Hale, MDMedical Board of Australia; QCAT | 2022–Feb 2023 | Board cautioned her and imposed conditions over prescribing ivermectin for early COVID-19. | QCAT refused to stay the conditions pending review ([2023] QCAT 27); merits outcome not found. | Finding | QCAT decision |
| Billy Ralph, MDMedical Council of Ireland, Fitness to Practise Committee | Aug 2026 | Proven allegations include promoting ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment on social media (promotion, not prescribing). | Professional misconduct found; sanction pending. | Finding | TheJournal.ie |
| Gilbertha St Rose, MDSaint Lucia Medical and Dental Council | Dec 2021; Feb 2022 | Suspended for prescribing and supplying ivermectin for COVID-19 without authorisation, promoting it publicly, and running an unapproved trial. | Six-month suspension and EC$10,000 fine, stayed by the High Court pending judicial review after she agreed not to prescribe it for COVID-19. | Stayed by court | Barbados Today Court ruling |
| 16 unnamed doctorsNetherlands Health and Youth Care Inspectorate | 2022; Feb 2026 | Administrative fines for off-label ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine prescribing for COVID-19. | Council of State upheld one GP's fine in Feb 2026 (reduced to €1,500). Doctors not named. | Finding | NL Times Council of State |
Everyone in this section is presumed not to have committed the conduct alleged until a tribunal decides otherwise.
| Practitioner & regulator | Date | Allegation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Turner, MDWashington Medical Commission | Apr 2026 | New charges for failing to supply records; per the Department of Health, the investigations concern ketamine and ivermectin prescribing, including use for cancer patients. | WA DOH |
| Mark Hobart, MDMedical Board of Australia / VCAT (Victoria) | Since Nov 2021 | Suspended since 2021; VCAT allegations include prescribing ivermectin to an elderly patient without assessing need, alongside 598 exemption certificates. No final decision found. | Canberra Times |
| Bernard Conlon, MDNZ Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal | Heard Mar 2026 | Charges include attempting to import ivermectin unlawfully (tests reportedly found contamination) and offering it to colleagues. Decision not yet reported. | NZ Herald |
| Patrick Morrissey, MDMedical Council of Ireland | Heard Jul 2026 | Allegations include prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 patients contrary to HSE, EMA and Council guidance. | Irish Times |
| Michael McConville, MD (retired)Medical Council of Ireland | May 2026 | Allegations concern 2021–22 tweets, including tweets alleged to promote ivermectin for COVID-19. | Irish Times |
| Shankara Chetty, MDHealth Professions Council of South Africa | Since Apr 2024 | Counts include prescribing ivermectin, steroids and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 without regulatory approval. Pleaded not guilty; no outcome reported. | BusinessDay |
| Russell Marz, NDOregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine | Oct 2022 | Proposed discipline alleging he called in an ivermectin prescription in another person's name and misled the investigator. No final order found. | Board notice (PDF) |
| Unnamed Timaru doctorNZ Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal | Oct 2026 | Reported misconduct finding covering ivermectin importation, threatening emails to Medsafe and vaccine claims; suspension and about NZ$127,000 costs. Name not verified, so not given. | Stuff |
Status current to 27 October 2026; several matters are under appeal or awaiting sanction and may change. Canadian entries without links are documented in full, with citations, on our ivermectin page. Corrections with documentation are welcome and will be posted. Image version: qw-ivermectin-discipline-table.png.
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