The State - News from June 17, 1988

Former UC San Diego researcher Robert Slutsky has been placed on five years’ probation and has had his medical license suspended for 60 days for research fraud, California licensing authorities said. The state Board of Medical Quality Assurance ordered Slutsky to complete a course in medical ethics, take some continuing medical education classes and undergo a psychiatric evaluation as a condition of his probation, officials said. If Slutsky is found not mentally fit to practice medicine safely, he will be barred from practicing in California until he has been treated and determined fit, licensing board officials said. The sanctions will go into effect if and when Slutsky, who left the state three years ago and is currently working in New York City, returns to California to practice.