Texas Medical Board Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1, Fall 2009 Page: 3
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Governor Appoints Zwanziger to Physician Assistant Board,
Ximenes to Acupuncture Board
Edward W Zwanziger, PA-C, of Eustace, is a
physician assistant at Primary Care Associates. He
is a member of the American and Texas academiesMr. Zwanziger
of Physician Assistants,
a life member of the
Veteran's Caucus of the
American Academy of
Physician Assistants,
and one of the original
physician assistants in the
military. He is a recipient
of Physician Assistant
of the year for the U.S.
Air Force and the Texas
Association of Physician
Assistants. He is a mem-ber of Active Community Team Service, a Christian and a m
based disaster response group. He received a bach- Medical
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Since the Spring 2009 issue of the MedicalBoard of care i
Bulletin, the Board has taken disciplinary action on 280 treatment
physicians and eight physician assistants. The Board failing to
issued three cease and desist orders for unlicensed controlled
practice. The following is a summary of those actions. acute Me
QUALITY OF CARE VIOLATIONS
Aggarwal, Ajay, M.D., Lic. #J7879, Bay City TX entered i
On May 1, 2009, the Board and Dr. Aggarwal entered year he o
into a five-year Agreed Order of public reprimand tion in et
requiring that, for each year of the order, Dr. Ag- profess
garwal obtain 50 hours of continuing medical educa- sity of C
tion in assessing, diagnosing and treating substance Clinical
abuse; that he have a practice monitor; that he request 90 days
modification of his DEA and DPS controlled sub- The acti
stance registration to eliminate Schedule II, limiting his several
prescribing of controlled substances to the remaining out main
schedules, and that he not obtain controlled substance and negl
registration without board approval. The action was advise th
based on Dr. Aggarwal's failure to meet the standardelor's degree from the University of Nebraska and
an associate degree in nursing from Miami Dade
Community College.
Rey Ximenes, M.D., of Austin, is owner, medicaldirector and pain manage-
ment specialist of the Pain
and Stress Management
Center. He is a member of
the Texas Medical Asso-
ciation, Texas Society of
Anesthesiologists and Texas
State Naturopathic Associa-
tion. He is also a volunteer
race doctor for the Capitol
10K. Dr. Ximenes receivedD
Dr. Ximenesa bachelor's from the University of Texas at Austin
medical degree from the University of Texas
School at Houston.
n his prescribing, monitoring, follow-up care,
t plan and management of a pain patient and
heed multiple red flags for nontherapeutic
d substance abuse by the patient, who died of
thadone intoxication.
Babcock, Chad, M.D., Lic. #L8269, Austin TX
ust 21, 2009, the Board and Dr. Babcock
nto an agreed order requiring that within one
btain five hours of continuing medical educa-
hics; that within one year he complete the
o nal boundaries course offered by the Univer-
alifornia San Diego Physician Assessment and
Education (PACE) program; and that within
he pay an administrative penalty of $2,000.
on was based on Dr. Babcock's prescribing
medications, x-rays and tests to a friend with-
taining medical records or written justification
acting to secure written informed consent or
e friend of foreseeable side effects.
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