Professional Conduct reports– September 2026

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Recent hearing outcomes

Dr. Omatseye Edema, a family physician from Calgary, was sanctioned by a CPSA Hearing Tribunal after admitting to unprofessional conduct.

Dr. Edema failed to meet the requirements of CPSA’s Patient Record Content, Prescribing Administration and Virtual Care standards of practice after issuing a prescription to a Florida-based patient in 2024, and transmitting it to an online, British Columbia-based pharmacy. Dr. Edema did not confirm the prescription issued was being transmitted to a licensed pharmacy and failed to create a patient record to provide the clinical basis for his decision.

The Tribunal accepted Dr. Edema’s admission to the charges and a joint submission on sanction, ordering the following:

• Edema is to receive a written reprimand in the form of the hearing decision.
• At his own expense, Dr. Edema must successfully complete a record keeping course acceptable to the Complaints Director, within a 12-month period of the Tribunal’s written decision.
• Also at his own expense, Dr. Edema must successfully complete the PBI Risk Management Essential Extended Course, within six months of the Tribunals’ written decision, or another date acceptable to the Complaints Director.

A Hearing Tribunal found Dr. Daniel McKennitt, a family physician from Edmonton, guilty of unprofessional conduct for failing to comply with a restriction on his practice requiring his participation in and cooperation with CPSA’s Health & Practice Condition Monitoring Program (formerly the Physician Health Monitoring Program).

The Tribunal accepted Dr. McKennitt’s admission of unprofessional conduct and a joint recommendation on sanction, ordering the following:

• McKennitt’s practice permit is suspended for a period of 18 months, with 12 months considered served for the period he was out of practice between April 2024 and April 2025.
• The remaining six months are held in abeyance pending Dr. McKennitt fulfilling the remaining orders of the Hearing Tribunal.
• McKennitt’s practice permit is subject to conditions, which can be modified or removed by CPSA’s Assistant Registrar, Continuing Competence.
• McKennitt is responsible for a portion of the costs of the investigation and hearing, totalling $5,000.

Dr. Tarek Bensasi, a family physician from Edmonton, was sanctioned by a Hearing Tribunal after admitting to three counts of unprofessional conduct.

The Tribunal found that between 2018 and 2022, Dr. Bensasi allowed an international medical graduate who worked at his clinic as a clinical aid to provide care to several patients who were under the impression the aid was a licensed physician. The aid was not a regulated member of CPSA at the time, but Dr. Bensasi mistakenly believed they were permitted to provide certain medical services without supervision when this was not the case.

Dr. Bensasi also improperly submitted claims to the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan for services provided by the clinical aid and created incorrect patient records stating he had seen and treated the patients.

The Tribunal accepted Dr. Bensasi’s admission to the charges and the joint submission on sanction, ordering the following:

• • Bensasi’s practice permit is suspended for six months, with two months held in abeyance pending completion of the other sanctions. Dr. Bensasi is currently serving the remaining four months of his suspension.
  • At his own cost, Dr. Bensasi must complete and unconditionally pass a program on ethics and boundaries. If Dr. Bensasi does not pass the program, he will be required to work one-on-one with a medical ethicist, also at his own cost.
  • Bensasi is responsible for a portion of the costs associated with the investigation and hearing, in the amount of $10,000.

• Learnings for the profession As part of our responsibility to protect the public, CPSA may (under the Health Professions Act) apply conditions to a physician’s practice permit to ensure the delivery of safe medical care to patients. Depending on the circumstances, conditions can be put in place by Registration, Professional Conduct or Continuing Competence. Practice conditions are tailored to the individual situation and may include: A requirement to have a chaperone present during patient encounters Restrictions on scope of practice (e.g., limited to family medicine only) Prescribing limitations Restrictions on the types of patients seen (e.g., adult patients only) Limits on the number of hours worked Practice setting requirements (e.g., must work in a group practice) The practice condition monitoring division of CPSA’s Health & Practice Conditions Monitoring (HPCM) program is responsible for coordinating and monitoring practice conditions. Monitoring methods depend on the type of conditions in place but can include chaperone reports and documentation, site visits, reports from designated practice monitors, and reviewing billing and medical records. Physicians with practice conditions must provide HPCM with annual attestations of compliance and billing data is reviewed quarterly, at minimum. Some situations may require monthly billing reviews, and cross-referencing of daily chaperone log submissions, annual chaperone site visits and reports from designated practice monitors. To find out more about practice conditions and HPCM, visit our website.