The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review the case against a former Encino cosmetic surgeon convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a 61-year-old patient’s death during a liposuction operation that lasted about 11 hours.
Ehab Aly Mohamed was convicted last year of the felony charge stemming from Sharon Carpenter’s August 2010 death.
Authorities said the woman — who had agreed to pay $100,000 for the surgery — was given a lethal combination of drugs during the lengthy surgical procedure that started at 1:10 p.m. Aug. 21, 2010, in Mohamed’s Encino office.
Mohamed’s medical assistant called 911 after the woman became unresponsive, and she was pronounced dead at 12:50 a.m. Aug. 22, 2010, according to an accusation filed against Mohamed on behalf of the Medical Board of California in May 2012.
Along with the involuntary manslaughter count involving Carpenter, Mohamed was also found guilty of a felony count of elder or dependent adult abuse involving a second patient. That charge involved a lengthy liposuction procedure in May 2010 on a 77-year-old woman.
Mohamed agreed to surrender his medical license, effective February 2013.
In a May 3 ruling that upheld Mohamed’s conviction, a three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense’s contention that there were errors in Mohamed’s trial in Van Nuys.
The appellate court justices found that Mohamed had “multiple flagrant deviations from reasonable standards of medical care which amounted to criminal negligence.”
—City News Service