Update: Psychiatrist License revoked due to Sexual Misconduct

As seen in this report

The state medical board revoked the medical license of local psychiatrist Dr. Arthur R. Schramm Wednesday on charges of professional misconduct and neglect.

The revocation is permanent and goes into effect when the order is mailed to Schramm this week, said Joan Wehrle, spokeswoman for the State Medical Board of Ohio.

Among several charges involving three patients, two of them dancers from local strip clubs, the board found Schramm, 68, took sexually suggestive photos of two patients; he prescribed painkillers and other drugs to patients that were addicted to heroin, marijuana and alcohol; he didn't keep records of the prescriptions, and he failed to properly treat the women for various mental and physical ailments.

Schramm, a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry with no previous troubles with the medical board, could not be reached for comment.

His attorney, Todd Morman, also could not be reached for comment. But he said on Monday that Schramm had "made some mistakes" and the board was overreacting in seeking to revoke his license.

Schramm, semi-retired, has practiced in Dayton for nearly 40 years, many of those at St. Elizabeth Hospital leading its psychiatry department and detoxification program, according to his testimony in a board report. He later worked for Kettering Medical Center in various roles that included directing the juvenile sexual offenders program.

Acting on a complaint, a board investigation found Schramm entered into doctor-patient relationships with two strippers in 2004 after establishing personal relationships that included lap dances, taking sexually suggestive photos and hiring one for help at his Brookville home and for clerical duties in his office at 130 W. Second St. in Dayton.