Ex-Greenwich Doctor Who's a Registered Sex Offender Denied Hearing to Reinstate Medical License

The Connecticut Medical Licensing Board has denied a gastroenterologist who had a practice in Greenwich and is a registered sex offender a hearing on the physician’s request that his medical license be reinstated.

Clifford Berken, who was convicted in New York State on a charge of first-degree charge of attempting to disseminate indecent material to a minor in 2010, was denied the hearing on Tuesday, according to Greenwich Time.

Berken was arrested in January 2009 in White Plains, NY after he was caught having online “chats” with an undercover investigator posing as a 15-year-old boy, after he arranged to meet “the boy.”

Following his arrest, Berken surrendered his privileges at Greenwich Hospital and shuttered his private practice in Greenwich.

The Greenwich Time report can be found here.

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