Dental consultant erased by GDC
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- Published: Wednesday, 25 January 2017 12:49
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Dental lecturer and histopathologist in Leeds School of Dentistry, Dr Alec High, has been erased from the Dentists Register by the GDC. The FtP panel found that he regularly enjoyed lunchtime sex sessions at his office and had lied to cover up his activities, which the panel found was ‘misleading and dishonest’.
FtP panel chair Anthony Griffin said Dr High actions had been 'misleading and dishonest conduct that was premeditated and sustained'. They found his behaviour both 'inappropriate and unprofessional' and noted Dr High had never apologised for his actions at work. Mr Griffin said: “In all the circumstances of this case the committee concluded that the findings against Dr High are so serious as to be incompatible with his remaining in the GDC register.
“The only proportionate sanction is that of erasure. This order is necessary to mark the importance of maintaining public confidence in the profession and to send to the public and the profession a clear message about the conduct required of a registered dental professional at all times.”
Dr Alec High was found by the General Dental Council to have had noisy sex in his office on March 12, 2015. A dental lecturer who was overheard having sex in his office while a colleague was trying to console a grieving student was kicked out of the profession today. He also regularly enjoyed lunchtime assignations in his office at the University of Leeds between January 2013 and March 2015.
Dr High claimed he was working at St James's University Hospital between 2pm and 3pm on March 12, 2015 when he was having sex with a woman. He even produced paper 'evidence' to prove he was not in the building but the panel found his cover up bid to be misleading and dishonest. His MacBook Pro and Samsung mobile phone showed he was logged in to the system at the Worsley Building where his office is based. A manager had confronted him about the rendezvous in the summer of 2014, and he replied 'point taken'. But on March 12 2015, an 'embarrassed' colleague said she 'began to hear loud noises of what she said was two people having sex'.
Tom Coke-Smyth, for the General Dental Council said: “This occasion was a particularly serious one as she was dealing with an upset student who had suddenly lost her grandmother, her family were abroad and she was unable to return home for the funeral.” Colleagues had reported hearing 'noises' coming from the office for several years but it only later clicked that they were coital. Witnesses were in 'no doubt' they were hearing 'noises of sexual activity'.
All seven misconduct charges against Dr High, who was not present and unrepresented, were found proved. He failed to respond to the charges of engaging in sexual activity in his office and providing a false account of his whereabouts to the University of Leeds. He has never accepted he did anything wrong, called the investigation into him a 'witch hunt' and slammed phone down when contacted by the GDC. The committee imposed an immediate suspension barring Dr High from working in the 28 day appeal window until the ban takes effect.
Dr High is a consultant histopathologist and senior lecturer within the university's School of Dentistry, where he had worked since 1981. He is a specialist in cancers of the head and neck has most recently co-authored papers in The Journal of Pathology and International Journal of Cancer.
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