Circumcisers

Documented Circumcisers:
Joseph O. Lasby, MD	Tacoma, Washington Circumcised this webmaster. (email to webmaster May 15, 1998) Credential Number: MD00001998
Kenneth B. Gass, MD	Bellingham, Washington Madrona Medical "It should be a parental decision." (Bellingham Herald, March 2, 1999) Credential Number: MD00014791
Richard F. McClenahan, MD	Bellingham, Washington McClenahan & Jacobson "Circumcision is provided to infants of families for whom I provide care, not for personal gain, but as a service to fulfill the wishes of some parents of newborn boys in my practice." (letter to webmaster undated but postmarked Jan 17, 2000) Credential Number: MD00023834
Margaret Jacobson, MD	Bellingham, Washington McClenahan & Jacobson "I do perform circumcision on infants. I am offended to be labeled a genital mutilator." (from a preliminary discussion of an adaptation of the Ashley Montagu Resolution at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship on Dec 7, 1997.) Credential Number: MD00023894
Steve Waszak, MD	Seattle, Washington UTI's Reduced in Circumcised Infants Credential Number: MD00015444
Edgar Shoen, MD	California
Robert L. Telander, MD	St. Paul, Minnesota
Jonathan Anderson, MD	Zephyrhills, Florida Circumcised an adult patient for "post-void dribble."
Jordan Baum, MD	Zephyrhills, Florida Defendant in a case of a man awarded $400,000 in attorney's fees and related costs in addition to the $979,000 awarded previously, whose penis was mutilated in a botched circumcision, reported in the May 4, 2000 Dade City Times.
Thomas Wiswell, MD	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Joseph Barone, MD	New Brunswick, New Jersey Cancelled scheduled circumcision of Matthew Price on October 11, 2000.
Rabbi Michael Rovinsky, mohel	St. Louis, Missouri BRISMILAH.org travels to Dallas Texas and Nashville, Tennessee frequently to perform circumcisions. At $150 and up, Rovinsky claims to have cut the genitals of thousands of boys. He rents a room at a country club hall or uses his parents' Dallas home to perform circumcisions assembly-line fashion. He considers himself an expert and brags that he has corrected botched circumcisions performed by pediatric urologists. He uses "magic healing powder" and prescription drugs he has obtained outside the U.S. without a license to dispense. (email to webmaster Mar 13, 2001)
Roosevelt Taylor, Jr., MD	a Dallas OB/GYN who in September 1997 circumcised a boy without parental consent. The boy, whose father and older brothers are intact, is now 3 and 1/2 years old. The parents filed a lawsuit and won against Dr. Taylor, who was formally censored by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners. (email to webmaster Mar 13, 2001, also circumstitions.com?)
James Ross, MD	Bellingham, Washington Family Health Associates (email to webmaster Mar 13, 2001) Credential Number: MD00015178
David Lynch, MD	Bellingham, Washington Family Health Associates (email to webmaster Mar 13, 2001) Credential Number: MD00015323
Dr. Freeman	Lummi, Washington cut up all the Indian babies out at the clinic there. No financial incentive for him, he just "liked to cut." (email to webmaster Mar 13, 2001)
David A. Bolnick, Ph.D., certified mohel	Seattle, Washington Bris Milah Northwest "Anything I'm involved with, it's always on the cutting edge." (from Seattle Times article July 24, 2000) Not credentialed in Washington state.
Martha L Myers, MD	Medina, Ohio Medina Pediatrics (see $10 million lawsuit settlement from March 25, 1999)
William S. Martens, MD	Lancaster, Pennsylvania Red Rose Pediatrics "It is a relatively quick and easy procedure", says Dr. William S. Martens, a pediatrician with Red Rose Pediatrics, 233 College Ave., who estimates he has performed some 3,000 circumcisions. (from Lancaster Pennsylvania New Era Magazine dated Feb 8, 2001)
Robert Karasov , MD	St. Louis Park, Minnesota Park Nicollet Clinic When he went home that night he buried the foreskin in a potted plant in his house. During warm weather he plants the foreskins (about 75 to 80 a year) in the garden. "It's a holy thing, a piece of a sacred human being. You wouldn't just throw it away." (from Star Tribune article March 24, 2001)
Sheldon Berkowitz, MD	Minnesota Aspen Medical Group "As a pediatrician I don't think there are many medical reasons for circumcision, but as a mohel I was doing it for religious reasons." He circumcised his own son. (from Star Tribune article March 24, 2001)
Joseph Balina, MD	Baltimore, Maryland (email to webmaster March 25, 2001)
Herb Brosbe, MD	Santa Rosa, California "When Jessica Martinez brought 2-week-old Dante in for a circumcision Friday afternoon, it meant Herb Brosbe and Cynthia Morris -- the Santa Rosa doctors whose resignations from their medical group last year prompted a torrent of criticism of the health care system -- are back in the family practice business. Brosbe had selected Dante as the office's first patient because ``I've been his mother's doctor and his grandmother's doctor. That, for me, is the meaning of family practice." (from Press Democrat article January 13, 2001)
Cynthia Morris, MD	Santa Rosa, California "When Jessica Martinez brought 2-week-old Dante in for a circumcision Friday afternoon, it meant Herb Brosbe and Cynthia Morris -- the Santa Rosa doctors whose resignations from their medical group last year prompted a torrent of criticism of the health care system -- are back in the family practice business. Brosbe had selected Dante as the office's first patient because ``I've been his mother's doctor and his grandmother's doctor. That, for me, is the meaning of family practice." (from Press Democrat article January 13, 2001)
Theresa Dise, MD	New Orleans, Louisiana Tulane Hospital for Children. "I don’t feel it’s my job to talk people into or out of them." (from Gambit Weekly article April 3, 2001)
Richard Streiffer, MD	New Orleans, Louisiana Tulane Hospital for Children. "I want to be sure they realize that doing it on a newborn is really a nothing procedure. It’s quick, it’s inexpensive, and there’s no evidence of there being a psychological trauma." (from Gambit Weekly article April 3, 2001)
Karen G. Swenson, MD	Austin, Texas (email to webmaster April 8, 2001)
David Peleg, MD	Iowa City, Iowa "The Gomco clamp has become one of the leading instruments used in the performance of nonritual circumcision in the United States. This device is popular because of its safety record in preventing injury and bleeding." (from American Family Physician)
Ann Steiner, MD	Iowa City, Iowa "The Gomco clamp has become one of the leading instruments used in the performance of nonritual circumcision in the United States. This device is popular because of its safety record in preventing injury and bleeding." (from American Family Physician)
Michael Sia, MD	Honolulu, Hawaii estimates that "he performs circumcisions on 80 to 90 percent of the male infants in his practice" (from The Honolulu Advertiser)
Richard Lieberman, MD	Santa Fe, New Mexico "he performed numerous circumcisions on male Indian babies." (from The Santa Fe New Mexican)
Steve Lucero, MD	Santa Fe, New Mexico "Currently, only a handful of Santa Fe physicians perform newborn circumcisions at St. Vincent, with urologist Dr. Steve Lucero doing almost all of them, according to hospital records." (from The Santa Fe New Mexican)
Valerie M. Parisi, MD, MPH	Chapel Hill, North Carolina UNC Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology "Parisi said UNC Hospitals will absorb the cost of circumcisions for the baby boys of existing Medicaid patients who deliver through next month." (from Raleigh News and Observer, Oct. 31, 2001)
Sandra Chenkin, MD	Brockton, Massachusetts "The parents told the hospital in August 1997 that they did not want their son circumcised, according to a malpractice suit filed by the parents. Nevertheless, Dr. Sandra Chenkin performed the procedure the day after he was born, court papers said." (from The Patriot Ledger, January 5, 2001)
Eva J. Salamon, MD	Winter Haven, Florida Bond Clinic, Polk Medical "The Florida Board of Medicine imposed a $5,000 fine on Dr. Eva Salamon, a Winter Haven obstetrician, for doing a circumcision on a baby boy without the parents' consent." (from The Ledger, February 6, 2002)
Prof. Spencer Beasley	Christchurch School of Medicine New Zealand Paediatric Surgeon / Paediatric Urologist Professor of Paediatric Surgery http://www.circumstitions.com/Sounds/Beasley2.mp3
Tracey Maurer, MD	Williston, VT Fletcher Allen Health Care (from email to webmaster)
Sunita Kantak, MD	Moorhead, MN MeritCare Moorhead http://www.cirp.org/news/mensnewsdaily08-01-02/
Thomas Schneider, MD	Bellingham, WA Family Health Associates In telephone call Jan. 8, 2003 was asked, "Does that mean you still do circumcisions?" and the answer was, "Yes."
George W Kaplan, MD	San Diego, CA Testified at Flatt v. Kantak
Craig T Shoemaker, MD	Sacramento, CA (formerly Fargo, ND) Testified at Flatt v. Kantak
Thomas Sawchuck, MD	Fargo, ND Testified at Flatt v. Kantak
Eric Lund, MD	Grand Forks, ND Testified at Flatt v. Kantak
Matthew "Toby" Cox, MD	South Jordan, UT "As a pediatrician, I frequently perform circumcisions." Letter to the Editor, Salt Lake Tribune April 26, 2003 Matthew Cox is on the faculty of the University of Utah School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, and practices at Families First Pediatrics. His contact phone number is 801-913-6036.
Eugene Childers, MD	Edison, New Jersey and San Diego, CA (from email to webmaster) 'He circumcised me at birth (I have proof) using the excuse to my mother that "your son was born with too much skin on his penis". He did a terrible job, robbing me of most of my penile shaft skin, created numerous gouge scars, twisted the shaft and skin, and bridged my frenulum, which had caused painful complications throughout my 32 years so far.'
Caroline McGee Jones, MD	University of Texas Health Science Center
Dr. Anne E. Biedel	Port Townsend, WA Credential Number: MD00022984 Jefferson County, Washington State, Case No. 03-2-00329-7
Dr. Mitch Weinberg,	President, Medical Staff Evergreen Hospital Medical Center 12040 NE 128th Street Kirkland, WA 98034 Board of Commissioners commissioners@evergreenhealthcare.org Unable to locate credentials in Washington state. "I think it's a parent's choice to decide"
Dr. Steven Woods	Chief of Obstetrics-Gynecology Overlake Medical Center 1035 -116th Ave. NE Bellevue, WA 98004 Steven K Woods Credential Number: MD00022747 "It's not butchery."
Dr. Monja Proctor	Swedish Pediatric Specialty Care 747 Broadway Seattle, WA 98122-4307 Credential Number: MD00041914 "Like many doctors these days, though, Proctor believes it's the parents' right to decide."
Dr. Ralph Conti	Ralph Conti, MD, Pediatrics 6301 Mountain Vista #205 Henderson NV 89014 702-614-5437 "There's about 10,000 less foreskins in the world thanks to me," Conti said. http://klastv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1520984
David H. Cornell, MD	Atlanta, Georgia "Dr. Cornell has extensive experience performing circumcisions on both adults and children." The Circumcision Center http://www.circumcisioncenter.com/
Daniel S. Gottschall, MD	Bridgeport, Connecticut Lawsuit claims circumcision botched "The suit alleges the boy's injuries were caused by Gottschall's failure to exercise the proper care and skill employed by physicians specializing in the procedure."
Matthew Howard Lazar, MD	Manitoba, Canada Wrong child circumcised MD disciplined after wrong baby circumcised: Tried to hide error from parents

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