A doctor was arrested and charged with fondling two teenage patients in Mississippi years after state licensing board investigators received a report from another young woman alleging he harassed her at a medical exam in Florida.
Dr. Mehul Dixit, a pediatric nephrologist (kidney and urinary tract specialist in children), was uploaded last week with two counts of sexual assault, and his medical license was suspended, according to police and a report issued by the Mississippi State Medical Licensing Board. He was not charged in the alleged Florida incident.
Dixit, who is 59 years old and went to medical school in indiahe also appears to have practiced medicine in Arizona and New York City, available records show.
At Friday’s court hearing, a judge set Dixit’s bail at $300,000 and barred him from contact with his accusers, anyone under the age of 18 or anyone he worked with at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Dixit is not listed as a recluse in the Hinds County Jail. He lives in Madison, a suburb of Jackson, with his wife, who is also a doctor, records show.
Dixit’s attorney, Cynthia Stewart Dixit, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. She did not comment on the allegations, but she told local media that Dixit agreed to stop practicing medicinereported WAPT-TV from Jackson.
The licensing board summoned Dixit to a hearing on Thursday, saying the evidence indicated that allowing him to continue to practice «would constitute an immediate danger to public health and safety.»
The two Mississippi teens Dixit is accused of sexually assaulting said he took advantage of them during physicals at UMMC. One of the accusers told police that she was 13 in 2013 when he allegedly abused her, according to her report. The other said she was 17 when Dixit allegedly assaulted her in February.
In its report on fridayThe board noted that in 2016 a Florida woman came forward and told her investigators that Dixit abused her during an exam a decade earlier for kidney stones. The circumstances under which the Mississippi teens are alleged to have been assaulted were similar to those described by the Florida woman, the report says.
The woman, who was 17 at the time of the alleged assault, told a board investigator that Dixit led her mother out of the exam room, made her undress, then rubbed her breasts and groped her vagina without wearing gloves.
The board’s report doesn’t say what prompted the Florida woman to come forward. The agency did not return several calls seeking an explanation.
At the time, Dixit was working at UMMC in Jackson. And it appears that no steps were taken in 2016 to limit access to it to young female patients. The woman did not file a complaint with the police.
“No further action was taken because the events reportedly occurred in the state of Florida and fell within that state’s primary jurisdiction,” the report states.
The alleged Florida incident resurfaced after «a law enforcement officer contacted the Board’s investigative staff» following the most recent allegation and «requested information related to Licensee’s previous interactions with the Board.» the report says.