STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1328

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: GOV. MSG. NOS. 204, 205, 206

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred Governor's Message Nos. 204, 205, and 206, submitting for study and consideration the nominations of:

Board of Medical Examiners

G.M. No. 204

M. PIERRE K.W. PANG, M.D.,

for a term to expire 06-30-2008;

G.M. No. 205

FEREYDOUN DON PARSA, M.D.,

for a term to expire 06-30-2006; and

G.M. No. 206

G. MARKUS POLIVKA,

for a term to expire 06-30-2007,

begs leave to report as follows:

Your Committee received written testimony in support of M. PIERRE K. W. PANG, M.D., from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the Hawaii Medical Association, and one doctor of internal medicine. Dr. Pang also submitted a written statement.

Your Committee finds that Dr. Pang received his medical degree from Tulane Medical School, received post-graduate fellowships, and is licensed to practice medicine in Hawaii, thus fulfilling the requirement to serve as a physician member of the board. Dr. Pang has been a physician for eighteen years, and currently serves as the Chief of Ophthalmology at St. Francis-West Medical Center; he has also been the chair of the surgery department of St. Francis-West. Dr. Pang has also authored or co-authored a number of articles that have been published in medical journals. Dr. Pang has served on the board since July 2004 as an interim appointee.

Your Committee received written testimony in support of FEREYDOUN DON PARSA, M.D., from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Hawaii Medical Association. Dr. Parsa also submitted a written statement.

Your Committee finds that Dr. Parsa received his medical degree from the Lausanne Medical School in Switzerland and thereafter received further medical training in the United States through residencies and fellowships. A United States citizen, Dr. Parsa received his license to practice medicine in Hawaii in 1976, thus fulfilling the requirement to serve as a physician member of the board. Dr. Parsa is board certified in plastic surgery and serves as professor of plastic surgery at the University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, and is the Chief of the Plastic Surgery Department of the Queen's Medical Center. Dr. Parsa is extensively published in various medical journals. He has been serving as an interim appointee to the board since July 2004.

Your Committee received written testimony in support of G. MARKUS POLIVKA from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Mr. Polivka also submitted a written statement.

Your Committee finds that Mr. Polivka, born in Germany, is a United States citizen, thus fulfilling the minimum requirement for a lay member of the board pursuant to section 453-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Mr. Polivka is the president of Monarch Insurance Services, Inc., a firm that brokers professional liability coverage for a number of Hawaii hospitals. Throughout his career, Mr. Polivka has analyzed physician malpractice claims and is familiar with the kinds of situations that may lead to adjudication of the status of a physician's license. Mr. Polivka has served as an interim appointee of the board since July 2004.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominees, has found the nominees to be qualified for the positions to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nominations.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing,

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RON MENOR, Chair