Psychiatrist Ronald Kurlander fined over controlled substances

May 31, 2013

On December 18, 2012, psychiatrist Ronald H. Kurlander entered into a settlement agreement with the Florida Board of Medicine in which he was reprimanded and fined $15,828. The Board charged Kurlander with prescribing controlled substances to two individuals who were not his patients and for whom he did not, among other things, conduct medical or psychiatric examinations; did not render diagnoses; did not establish justification for prescribing the drugs and did not keep patient records.