POTTSTOWN PA – Dermatologist Dr. Charles E. Vickerman Jr., who maintained offices in Pottstown PA, has had his license to practice medicine suspended for one year by the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine because it said he “engaged in unprofessional conduct with respect to the care and treatment of three patients.”

The board did not elaborate on the charges against Vickerman on which it based its decision, announced 13 days ago (March 22, 2010) by the state Department of State. The medical board operates as a unit of the department’s Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. The bureau lists Vickerman’s license number as MD018026E.

Also as results of disciplinary actions, the bureau’s:

• Board of Pharmacy ordered a licensed Royersford man to pay a fine;
• Board of Nursing indefinitely suspended the registered nurse license of a Pottstown woman; and
• Real Estate Commission ordered a licensed Sanatoga woman to pay a civil penalty, and issued her a public reprimand.

Disciplinary actions were announced during February and March against dozens of state-licensed professionals, Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro A. Cortés said in a written statement. The bureau’s 29 boards and commissions license more than 780,000 active professionals and businesses.

In the pharmacy case, “Peter D. Van Pelt, license no. RP043483L of Royersford … was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $1,000 because he violated the practice act in that he has had a license to practice pharmacy suspended, revoked or refused, or received other disciplinary action by the proper pharmacist licensing authority of another state, territory or country,” the department reported.

In the nursing case, “Dawn Cullum Dipette, license no. RN254649L of Pottstown … had her license indefinitely suspended retroactive to Nov. 3, 2009, based on findings that she is unable to practice professional nursing with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of mental or physical illness or condition or physiological or psychological dependence upon alcohol, hallucinogenic or narcotic drugs or other drugs which tend to impair judgment or coordination, so long as such dependence shall continue,” the department reported.

In the real estate case, “Dallas A. Schurr, license no. RS220830L of Sanatoga … was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $6,400 and a public reprimand was placed on her permanent board record because she violated the practice act by performing any act for which an appropriate real estate license is required and not currently in effect,” the department reported.

Vickerman, Van Pelt, Dipette and Schurr were among 18 Montgomery County licensees whose disciplines were listed by the bureau during the two-month period. Others included two accountancy licensees, in Huntingdon Valley and Jenkintown; three cosmetology licensees, in Norristown, Souderton and Lansdale; two dentistry licensees, in Conshohocken and Ambler; two other medical licensees, in Wynnewood and Gladwyne; two other nursing licensees in Conshohocken and Blue Bell; another pharmacy licensee, in Huntingdon Valley; another real estate licensee, in Lansdale; and a speech, language and hearing licensee, in Narberth.

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