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Selected experience / California public service

Public protection. Professional accountability.

Selected healthcare-enforcement matters from Mia’s service as a California Deputy Attorney General.

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Retired California Deputy Attorney General and Former Lead Prosecutor

Mia’s work extended across California’s healthcare licensing boards, including those regulating respiratory care, acupuncture, and podiatry. Her experience included practice-restriction proceedings under Penal Code section 23, as well as petitions for reinstatement and modification of discipline.

Civil enforcementMedical Board of California

Corporate and unlicensed practice of medicine.

Civil enforcement to stop unauthorized medical practice.

Unlicensed practice of medicine

Rosmar Imaging Center

Los Angeles Superior Court · 2001–2002

Case No. BC252914

Mia’s role. As a Deputy Attorney General, Mia represented the Medical Board of California in its civil enforcement action against Rosmar and its operators over the unauthorized practice of medicine in a diagnostic radiology business.

Court outcome. Following temporary and preliminary orders in 2001, the court entered a stipulated permanent injunction on April 23, 2002. It barred the defendants from offering diagnostic medical services through the unlawful business arrangement and from exercising the specified control over physicians, medical protocols, referrals, and patient records.

The Medical Board’s later decision in the related Pehlevanian matter records this civil action and injunction in Finding 35. The injunction prohibited the unlawful operation described in that record.

Hearing experienceMedical Board of California

The work of a contested hearing.

Public decisions identify Mia as hearing counsel in the matters below. Each summary distinguishes her documented role from the agency’s decision.

Disciplinary hearing / 2011

Ifeanyi Charles Igwegbe, M.D.

Medical Board of California

Mia’s role. Under her then-professional name Mia Perez-Castille, she represented the Medical Board’s complainant at the July 18–19, 2011 disciplinary hearing.

Board decision. The Board adopted the decision revoking Igwegbe’s medical license, effective October 21, 2011.

Contested hearing / 2012

Kim Markl Sheridan, M.D.

Six-day disciplinary hearing

Mia’s role. Mia Perez-Castille and Jannsen Tan appeared for the Medical Board’s complainant during six hearing days in May 2012.

Board decision. The resulting decision imposed a stayed revocation and four years’ probation, including clinical-training and practice restrictions. The Board adopted the decision on July 13, 2012, effective August 10, 2012.

These are historical administrative licensing proceedings. They do not describe any separate criminal prosecution or establish a professional’s current license status.

License reinstatement & judicial reviewBoard of Podiatric Medicine

Reinstatement and the limits of agency authority.

Representation through an administrative hearing and judicial review of the Board’s decision.

Reinstatement / 2001–2003

Michael M. Fanous, D.P.M.

Board of Podiatric Medicine

Sacramento Superior Court · 03CS00075

Mia’s role. Mia represented the Board at the November 14, 2001 reinstatement hearing in Los Angeles under her then-professional name Mia Perez-Castille. She also appeared for the Board in the 2003 Sacramento judicial-review proceeding as Mia Perez-Argote.

Board decision and court outcome. The Board’s reconsidered 2002 decision provided for reinstatement subject to 25 years of probation. In a judgment entered on March 27, 2003, the Sacramento Superior Court ordered that decision vacated because reconsideration had been unlawfully granted and ordered restoration of the earlier unconditional reinstatement.

This historical matter illustrates reinstatement litigation and judicial review. The 25-year probation provision was vacated; it is not presented as a lasting disciplinary outcome or a statement of current license status.

Selected licensing proceedingsRoles & public records

Licensing intervention and enforcement.

Healthcare enforcement can intersect with events of substantial public concern. These examples identify the stage at which Mia’s participation is documented.

Licensing accusation / 2011

Christopher Thompson, M.D.

Mandeville Canyon matter

Mia’s role. As Deputy Attorney General, Mia Perez-Castille was counsel for the Medical Board’s complainant on the March 2011 accusation against Thompson, following his convictions for deliberately causing two cyclists to crash into his car on Mandeville Canyon Road.

Later agency record. His medical license was revoked, effective February 24, 2012. The final Board settlement was handled by other counsel; Mia’s documented role is at the accusation stage.

Professional licensing intervention / 2013

Lonnie Scott Keith

Physician Assistant Board

Mia’s role. As Deputy Attorney General, Mia represented the Physician Assistant Board in a 2013 court filing seeking restrictions on Keith’s clinical practice while criminal proceedings were pending.

Criminal case context. Contemporary reporting states that Keith pleaded guilty in August 2014 to three felony kidnapping counts and one felony rape count. He was sentenced to 26 years in state prison in September 2014. The case concerned attacks on women near Chico State; Deputy District Attorney Stacy Edwards handled the criminal prosecution.

Later agency record. The Medical Board’s published record reports that his physician-assistant license was revoked on May 8, 2015.

Medical Board disciplinary proceeding / 2017

Jonathan Cornelius Bourne

Medical Board of California

Mia’s role. Mia is listed as counsel for the Medical Board’s complainant in the 2017 disciplinary accusation.

Later agency record. The Board later approved a stipulated public reprimand and required ethics education, effective June 15, 2018. The administrative resolution was without admissions.

Mia’s work described here concerned professional licensing. Criminal prosecutions and the Thompson and Bourne settlements were handled by other counsel. Later agency outcomes are separately identified for historical context. Prior results do not guarantee future outcomes.

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