Jayant Patel

Jayant Mukundray Patel, born in 1950 in Jamnagar, Gujarat, is an Indian-American former surgeon whose career is a much discussed case of medical regulation and patient safety. He studied surgery at the M. P. Shah Medical College, obtained a master's degree, trained at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and became a United States citizen. After disciplinary action in Buffalo, New York, and restrictions on his practice in Oregon, he became Director of Surgery at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia, in 2003 under an area of need program for overseas trained doctors. Concerns raised by a nurse and reported in the press led to the Bundaberg Hospital Commission of Inquiry and to criminal charges. He was convicted of manslaughter in 2010, the convictions were quashed by the High Court of Australia in 2012, a retrial on one count ended in acquittal, and he later pleaded guilty to fraud. He was barred from practising medicine in Australia in 2015.