Health & Fitness
Ohio Board Approves 1st Doctors Who Can Recommend Medicinal Pot
The list includes MDs and DOs from across the state. See if your doctor is on the list.
COLUMBUS, OH – The State Medical Board of Ohio has approved 36 physicians statewide to recommend medical marijuana to patients. They are the first doctors in the state to get the certification under a new state law allowing certain patients to be allowed to use the drug for medicinal purposes.
To get the certification, doctors must be licensed and practicing as either a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathic medicine. The doctors must also have completed two hours of continuing medical education that helps them diagnose conditions where the use of marijuana would be beneficial and how marijuana might interact with other drugs.
The State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy, meantime, is working to establish a patient registry, which is expected by late summer. By Sept. 8, the medical marijuana dispensaries will be operational and selling the marijuana produced by the Ohio growers and processors licensed under the Department of Commerce.
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The state medical board at its monthly meetings will continue to review and approve applications for doctors who can recommend marijuana. The next meeting is May 9.
Nearly half of the doctors certified work in northeast Ohio. Those doctors are:
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- Monique Turner-Robinson, family medicine, Twinsburg
- Karin Cseak, family medicine, Cuyahoga Falls
- Stephen Mooney, obstetrics and gynecology, Canton
- Solomon Zaraa, psychiatry, Pepper Pike
- Noah Miller, psychiatry, Shaker Heights
- Adel Zaraa, psychitry, Akron
- Janet Levatin, pediatrician, Middleburg Heights
- Mark Woyshville, sleep specialist, Middeburg Heights
- Daniel Neides, family medicine, Cleveland Heights
- Robert Keating,family medicine, Cleveland
- Charles Barrett, pain management, Chagin Falls
- Alok Bhaiji, internal medicine, Middleburg Heights
- Michael Hamilton, Huron
- Hyo Kim, Orange
- Corie Kovach, obstetrics and gynecology, Amherst
- Cynthia Taylor, physiatrist, Strongsville
Doctors from elsewhere in Ohio are:
- Azam Shah, New Albany
- Jeffrey Haggenjos, New Albany
- Rajendra Koirala, Canfield
- Sarah Blake, Columbus
- Jeffrey Hill, Chillicothe
- Michael Saribalas, Columbus
- Allison Phelps, Cincinnati
- Mark Neumann, Lambertville
- Daniel Jones, Columbus
- Julianne Moy, Columbus
- Thomas McCartney, New Albany
- Joel Simmons, Columbus
- James Wolfe, Mansfield
- Ryan Lakin, Perrysburg
- William Sawyer, Cincinnati
- Maria Soto, Columbus
- Christopher South, Cincinnati
- David Zainey, Springfield
- Bernard Master, Worthington
- Michael Maloney, Cincinnati
The complete guidelines and policies on Ohio's medical marijuana are online.
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