Former University of Iowa professor and nuclear medicine physician Dr. Malik Juweid has reached an agreement with the Iowa Board of Medicine to no longer practice in the state.
According to a report by TV station KCRG, the board approved the settlement on September 21. In the agreement, Juweid requested the board stay enforcement of a confidential evaluation order if he agrees not to practice medicine under his Iowa medical license, which expires in July 2013.
The board in November 2011 had found cause to issue a confidential evaluation order for Juweid to undergo a comprehensive physical, neuropsychological, mental health, unprofessional conduct, and/or disruptive behavior evaluation due to concerns that he had engaged in a pattern of unprofessional conduct and/or disruptive behavior, according to the report.
Juweid has since moved out of the country and does not intend to practice medicine under his Iowa medical license at this time, according to the document cited in the KCRG report. He is now a visiting professor of radiology at University Hospital Aachen in Germany.
Last month, the University of Iowa terminated Juweid's employment as a nuclear medicine physician after he was embroiled in a personnel dispute with the university's department of radiology. The firing came after a report that detailed what investigators called a pattern of disruptive behavior at the university.
The university suspended Juweid in January 2011, and he, in turn, has responded with a lawsuit and discrimination complaints charging racial bias. The lawsuit is still pending.
