NC Medical Board rejects Winston-Salem doctor's request to reinstate her license. (2024)

The N.C. Medical Board has rejected a request to reinstate the license of a Winston-Salem doctor who reused syringes and kept baggies of human fat from liposuction procedures in a closet at her practice.

White was the owner of Carolina Laser and Cosmetic Center in Winston-Salem from 2004 until the facility closed in April 2022.

The medical board ordered White to shut down or sell her practice by April 16, 2022, as part of an indefinite suspension of her medical license.

The board ruled White had to wait two years before asking for her license to be reinstated.

That two-year period began March 17, 2022, and White applied for her license on March 19, 2024.

Questions about practice

The board listed all of the allegations against White, dating back to 2005, in its denial notice.

During the February 2022 disciplinary hearing that ended with the license suspension, White told board investigators and a board-required monitor that her practice was one of the many businesses that closed under state order during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, former employees testified that White saw patients during that time.

White also testified that before the pandemic, she would average between $120,000 and $150,000 in monthly billings during a typical March through May period.

The board determined that White “committed unprofessional conduct” by failing to comply with a 2018 order under which she agreed to pay for outside monitoring of her practice.

That determination allows the board to “annul, suspend, revoke, condition or limit” White’s North Carolina medical license.

The board also said in the report the unprofessional conduct includes “the committing of any act contrary to honesty, justice or good morals” as it related to a separate complaint involving an insurance claim filed by White.

Among previous charges raised against White was that she marketed herself as a board-certified dermatologist when she wasn’t, and that she used medications that at the time the Food and Drug Administration hadn’t approved.

Other allegations included:

* Having an unlicensed physician assist White with a procedure;

* A patient who wanted a tattoo removed filing a complaint that he or she had been burned because the setting on a laser was set too high;

* White reused syringes and dermatological products on multiple patients that the board said “poses a high risk of causing infection with antibiotic-resistant pathogens; and

*White used contaminated pharmaceutical products and syringes..

Before the 2023 ruling, White’s license had been suspended several times.

Non-medical issues

White was arrested in April 2023 and charged with identity theft and unlawfully obtaining a credit card, both felonies. Insurance spokesman Barry Smith said the identity theft charge was dismissed, and a prayer for judgment was continued.

She paid court cost, and prior to going to court she paid $11,238 in restitution.

According to the Person County arrest warrant, White used credit card and banking information of a deceased person, Pamela Dianne Shumate, to obtain and use a credit card in Shumate’s name.

Special agents with the department’s Criminal Investigations Division said White previously had been listed as an authorized user of Shumate’s credit card.

However, the authority to use her card ceased when Shumate died in May 2006, yet White continued to renew the card, according to the arrest warrant.

Bank of America filed on Oct. 7, 2023, for a partial summary judgment against White and her former businesses of Carolina Family Medicine and Dermatology PA and Carolina Laser and Cosmetic Center.