|     THE STATE 
      EDUCATION DEPARTMENT / THE UNIVERSITY 
      OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK / ALBANY, NY 12234 
        
        
        | 
 
| TO: | The Honorable the Members of the Board of Regents | 
| FROM: | Johanna Duncan-Poitier | 
| COMMITTEE: | Higher Education and Professional Practice | 
| TITLE OF 
      ITEM: | Appointment of a Member to the State Boards for the Professions and Appointment of an Auxiliary Member to the State Boards for the Professions for Service on Licensure Disciplinary and/or Licensure Restoration and Moral Character Panels | 
| DATE OF 
      SUBMISSION: | December 22, 2004 | 
| PROPOSED 
      HANDLING: | Approval (Consent Agenda) | 
| RATIONALE FOR 
      ITEM: | Required by Section 6508(4) of the Education Law | 
| STRATEGIC 
      GOAL: | Goal 3 | 
| AUTHORIZATION(S): |   | 
 
SUMMARY:
 
Attached for your consideration and approval are a proposed appointment of a member to the State Boards for the Professions and an appointment of an auxiliary member to the State Boards for the Professions for service on licensure disciplinary and/or licensure restoration and moral character panels.
 
VOTED: That the recommended appointment of a member to the State Boards for the Professions and the appointment of an auxiliary member to the State Boards for the Professions for service on licensure disciplinary and/or licensure restoration and moral character panels are approved.
 
 
Table 1 of 2
 
| Proposed Appointment 
      of a Member to the State Boards for the 
    Professions | |||
| 
        Board Name, Type of 
      Proposed Action, Candidate's Name, Residential Address, 
        | 
 | 
 | 
        Highest and/or 
      Professional  | 
| 
        State 
      Board for engineering and land surveying (Appointment) 
        Joseph P. Berger 
       Poughkeepsie, NY  12601 
        Judicial District 
      IX   | 
        
        
        
        
        
        Berger Engineering and 
      Surveying 100 Fulton 
      Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 
      12603 
        Judicial District 
      IX 
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
          | 
        
        
        
        
        
        February  1, 2005 to  January  31, 2010 |             Degree:  
      B.S. (Land Surveying), Purdue University Profession: Land 
      Surveying Profession:  Engineering Licensed in 
      1992 License 
      #069634 | 
 
 
Table 2 of 2
 
| 
        Proposed 
      Appointment of an Auxiliary Member to the State Board for the Professions 
      for Service on Licensure Disciplinary and/or Licensure Restoration and 
      Moral Character Panels 
        | ||||
| Board 
      Name, Type of Proposed Action, Candidate's Name, Residential 
      Address, | 
        Candidate's 
      Current Employer, Address and Judicial District | Proposed | Highest 
      and/or Professional  | |
| 
        State 
      Board for medicine (Appointment of auxiliary Member to Serve on Licensure 
      Disciplinary, Licensure Restoration, and Moral Character 
      Panels 
        
          | 
          | 
        |   | |
|   | 
        Balvindar 
      S. Sareen New 
      Hyde Park, NY 11040 
        Judicial 
      District X | 
        Queens 
      Long Island Medical Group 180-05 
      Hillside Avenue Jamaica, 
      NY  
11432 
        Judicial 
      District XI | 
        February 
      1, 2005 to January 31, 2010 | 
        Degree:  M.B.B.S. (Medicine), University of 
      Delhi, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, India; M.B.A. (Business 
      Management), New York University Profession:  Medicine Licensed 
      in 1989 License 
      #179342 
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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