Membership Suspension

The AANS Board of Directors on April 8 2011 approved the recommendation of the Professional Conduct Committee that the membership of Mihai D. Dimancescu, M.D. of Freeport N.Y. be suspended for a period of six months for unprofessional conduct. The unprofessional conduct occurred during Dr. Dimancescu’s testimony as an expert witness in a civil trial and consisted of testifying with inadequate subject matter knowledge, misrepresenting his credentials to the court, and failing to testify as to the full range of the standard of care resulting in a misrepresentation of the applicable standard of neurosurgical care.