{"id":419328,"date":"2025-12-02T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/419328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:00:20","slug":"mohammed-habeeb-ahmed-cardiologist-found-of-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/419328\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Habeeb Ahmed cardiologist found of misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cardiologist practicing in San Jose and Gilroy lost his medical license for two months and is on probation until 2032 after the Medical Board of California found<\/a> he had inappropriately touched a female patient seeking care for heart issues.<\/p>\n

The patient said Dr. Mohammed Habeeb Ahmed<\/a> asked her about her sexual activity, complimented her breasts, and then squeezed them when she stood up to leave during an examination at a medical office in Gilroy in 2021, according to the medical board\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n

The medical board revoked Ahmed\u2019s license to practice medicine for two months earlier this year and ordered him to have a chaperone monitor his appointments with female patients. The board also required him to complete an ethics course and a program about professional boundaries, and pay $30,000 for its multi-year investigation.<\/p>\n

The Medical Board of California is charged with protecting patients by regulating doctors and surgeons. The board has 15 members \u2014 eight doctors and seven other members of the public \u2014 and most are appointed by the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s relatively rare for the medical board to suspend a doctor\u2019s license after its lengthy investigations process. Between July 2024 and July 2025, the board received about 9,700 complaints about doctors and surgeons, according to its annual report, and investigated about 1,000. Of those, 116 resulted in a suspended license to practice medicine \u2014 either with probation or without terms \u2014 and 24 licenses were revoked outright.<\/p>\n

The board\u2019s investigation of Ahmed found \u201cclear and convincing evidence to a reasonable certainty\u201d of sexual misconduct. It also found that the doctor had acted dishonestly and negligently.<\/p>\n

Ahmed did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment. During the medical board\u2019s investigation, he denied any sexual misconduct. His attorney, Nick Jurkowitz, told Bay Area News Group that Ahmed continues to deny the patient\u2019s allegations.\u00a0In March, Ahmed filed an appeal of the medical board\u2019s decision in Sacramento County Superior Court.\u00a0That appeal is pending.<\/p>\n

Ahmed is currently practicing medicine and is in \u201cfull compliance\u201d with the terms of the probation, said Jurkowitz, a Los-Angeles based attorney.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hopeful that a superior (court) judge reviewing the entirety of the case will overturn the Medical Board\u2019s discipline,\u201d he said in an email.<\/p>\n

Ahmed graduated from medical school in India, completed fellowships in the U.S. and started a private practice in cardiology in 2005 in San Jose, according to the medical board.<\/p>\n

The medical board said the patient first saw Ahmed in 2019 after experiencing heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath and dizziness. In May 2021, Ahmed met with the patient alone at his Gilroy office, and she testified that she was \u201cshocked\u201d by his actions in the examination room, which felt \u201cdisgusting.\u201d Afterward, he told her to \u201chave a nice day\u201d and to make another appointment, she said.<\/p>\n

The patient told the board she spoke about the doctor\u2019s behavior with a Gilroy police officer, but didn\u2019t file charges.<\/p>\n

In his defense, Ahmed denied the allegations and told the board that he was a religious leader and a father. The board\u2019s report described him as a community leader at his mosque and a Muslim religious scholar.<\/p>\n

The medical board, in its judgement, noted that all but one of Ahmed\u2019s witnesses were employees at his clinics who depended on him \u201cfor their livelihood.\u201d And his \u201cimpressive medical credentials and status as a family man and religious scholar do not weigh heavily in determining the credibility of his denial,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

Jurkowitz, Ahmed\u2019s attorney, said he \u201chad never been accused of anything like this in the past.\u201d California\u2019s medical licensee lookup portal<\/a> showed no records of other disciplinary actions, court orders, criminal convictions, malpractice judgements or malpractice settlements.<\/p>\n

The patient asked for the minimum amount of discipline for Ahmed under the board\u2019s guidelines, which the board ultimately granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cardiologist practicing in San Jose and Gilroy lost his medical license for two months and is on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":419329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[15173,276,16055,210,1141,1142,1370,728,50,15186,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-419328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-south-bay","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115649631029175350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}