Paul Marik, MD, one of the founding members of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), which has touted ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, has let his medical license expire.
The critical care physician’s license was issued on July 1, 2009, and it expired last week on June 30, according to the Virginia Department of Health Professions’ online database. The license was limited to universities, permitting Marik to practice in a university or related setting.
Earlier this year, the FLCCC announced that Marik had resigned from his long-time position as professor of medicine and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). In a statement issued at the time, the organization said that the physician planned to “dedicate more time to multiple causes,” including as the group’s co-founder.
The announcement of Marik’s resignation was preceded by a lawsuit that the physician had previously filed against Sentara Healthcare in Virginia over its ban of certain treatments for COVID-19. The suit was filed on the same day that the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine retracted an article that Marik co-authored on his MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol for COVID-19, which includes ivermectin. The retraction notice cites a communication the journal had received from Sentara that raised “concerns about the accuracy of COVID-19 hospital mortality data reported in the article.”
This week, in response to an inquiry from MedPage Today regarding the expiration of his license, Marik confirmed in an email that he is not currently practicing medicine.
“My academic license was limited to working at EVMS and ended when I chose to retire at the end of December, 2021,” Marik wrote. “I did not renew my limited license with another institution and have no plans at this time to obtain a license.”
Marik said that the expiration is not related to a March 2021 skirmish over his license. At that time, the Virginia Board of Medicine and Marik entered into a consent order, which stated that “outside the limits of his license and absent a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship,” Marik prescribed controlled substances to a handful of individuals.
However, by June of last year, the board had issued a letter to Marik, noting that it had received verification of his compliance with the consent order and that the matter had been closed.
Marik co-founded the FLCCC in March 2020. In addition to the MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol for COVID-19, the group has promoted a number of other protocols that include ivermectin, such as its I-RECOVER: Long COVID Treatment Protocol, which has been met with criticism from other physicians outside the organization.
Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
