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Board probes plastic surgeon's West Hollywood clinic

At least one staffer was caught posing as a doctor at a West Hollywood plastic surgery clinic during a sting by state regulators this week.

Staff members said Calayan Surgicentre Corp. was closed, at least temporarily, Tuesday after an investigator from the Medical Board of California’s Operation Safe Medicine posing as a patient caught a female staff member diagnosing a medical condition and performing laser treatments, according to a board statement released Thursday .Investigators served a search warrant on the clinic and referred the offices of the Los Angeles County District Attorney on charges of practicing medicine without a license.

Medical Board officials have not identified the female staff member. It was not clear if she had been charged in connection with the sting, according to the spokesman's office of a district attorney.

Medical board investigators began conducting surveillance at the clinic after they received complaints that unlicensed clinic staff had injured patients by performing cosmetic procedures including laser and Botox treatments at their former Los Angeles location and more recently in West Hollywood.

"The mission of the medical board is public protection, and this action reflects the board's ongoing commitment to that mission," said Linda Whitney, executive director of the medical board.

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A staff at Calayan’s office in Makati City said the couple are in the US.

“The Medical Board received complaints that the Calayan Medical Clinic had opened a medical practice in Los Angeles where cosmetic surgical procedures, including laser and Botox treatments, were being performed,” the news release said.

“The practice was subsequently moved to West Hollywood. Victims reported being injured by the laser treatments,” the report added.An undercover investigator posing as a patient obtained evidence that an “unlicensed female represented herself as a licensed medical doctor, diagnosed a medical condition, and performed laser treatments,” the board said.With the finding, the board obtained and served a search warrant last Aug. 9.The case has been referred to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for an alleged violation of Business and Professions Code section 2052 (Practicing Medicine Without a License). Surveillance A report on the “Los Angeles Times” said as of Thursday last week, staff members at the clinic said that it was closed and that they were unaware of the state investigation.

The report added that Operation Safe Medicine has received 351 complaints about unlicensed medical activity in two years, referring 45 of them for criminal prosecution, according to Christine Valine, Medical Board spokeswoman.The Los Angeles Times report said investigators began conducting surveillance at the clinic at Sunset Medical Tower, 9201 Sunset Blvd.It cited medical board records and quoted Valine as saying the Calayans are not licensed to practice medicine in California. Calayans The Los Angeles Times cited an article on the Calayan clinic’s web site as saying Manny was trained in Los Angeles and “specializes in cosmetic surgery and does nose lift, eye bags removal, dermal fillers for laugh lines, cheeks or chin augmentation, deep wrinkle treatment, deep-setting of the upper eyelids, face lifts, breast enlargement and liposuction.”It added that Pie Calayan was also trained in Los Angeles and “specializes in skin, hair and nails treatments including slimming [lasers] and skin whitening.

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