Three Florida doctors charged with adult rape and sex crimes involving minors
Sex crime accusations, including two cases involving children, have led to three Florida doctors receiving emergency suspensions this month.
On April 7, emergency suspension orders from state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo came down on Tampa psychiatrist Quamrul Chowdhury; family medicine doctor Malek Hussein, and Delray Beach’s Milan Patel. Each doctor has pleaded not guilty in his criminal case.
Suspension orders usually are followed by administrative complaints, which start the discipline process. While the complaints often get filed well ahead of any criminal case disposition, the timing can dovetail, as professional discipline cases often proceed even more slowly than criminal justice cases.
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In alphabetical order:
Dr. Quamrul Chowdhury
Age: 57.
Licensed in Florida since: Dec. 14, 2004.
The criminal case: The arrest records on this case in Hillsborough County have been sealed, but here’s what’s on the case file.
Chowdhury, a psychiatrist, is charged with attempted lewd or lascivious battery on a minor; soliciting to commit human trafficking for commercial sexual activity with a victim under the age of 18; using a computer or device to solicit, seduce lure or entice a child to engage in unlawsul sexual conduct, and traveling to meet a minor for a sexual act after using a computer to set up that act.
While out on bond, Chowdhury can have no contact with minors aside from his one child. He has to remain in the state of Florida. He can use the internet for banking, paying bills, communicating with his attorney and looking for a job, but can’t delete any of his cookies, history or files.
Chowdhury’s being defended by Rocky Brancato. Jessica Couvertier is handling the prosecution.
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Dr. Malek Hussein
Age: 43.
Licensed in Florida since: July 12, 2016. Hussein’s Florida Department of Health profile lists licenses in Illinois, Michigan and Iowa, but the Illinois license status is listed as “not renewed” after July 31, 2017; Michigan’s online license status check says his license status is “lapsed” since Jan. 31, 2017; and his license in Iowa is listed as “relinquished” as of Dec. 1, 2021.
The criminal case: Hussein, who owns TriHealth Family Wellness Centers in Pasco County and Gainesville, is charged in Pasco County court with sexual battery by a person over 18 against a victim aged 12 to 17 years and sexual battery by a custodian against a victim aged 12 to 17.
According to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office complaint affidavit, a 13-year-old girl told detectives Hussein had been raping her “one to five times per week” for years, most recently March 28, 2025. Hussein was arrested on Dec. 6. He’s out on $300,000 bond, can travel only to Pasco County and Hillsborough County, and can have no contact with minors other than supervised contact with his and his wife’s children who live in the home.
Hussein’s attorneys have filed a motion to allow him to attend an engagement party on June 27 in Hillsborough County. The hearing on that is scheduled for Wednesday.
Hussein is being defended by Victoria Hatfield with Mark O’Brien and Sheryl Johansen as co-counsel. Amber Sherwood is handling the prosecution for the state.
Dr. Milan Patel
Age: 39
Licensed in Florida since: Feb. 14, 2024. Patel’s Florida Department of Health profile also lists licenses in Arizona, Michigan, Texas and Vermont. An online check of those states says his Arizona license expired Nov. 29, 2025; his Michigan license lapsed on May 22, 2025; his Vermont license lapsed on Nov. 30, 2024; and his Texas license was “canceled for non-payment” on Sept. 12, 2025.
The criminal case: Patel is charged with rape of an adult.
Patel is accused of raping a woman at his Delray Beach apartment on Nov. 14, 2024. The arrest form says the woman, a co-worker and the co-worker’s sister told Delray Beach police they gathered at Tap 42 in Boca Raton. Patel had been invited along by the co-worker’s sister. They wound up back at Patel’s apartment, they said, where all agreed nobody should be driving anywhere.
The woman and the co-worker’s sister slept in Patel’s guest room, the co-worker on the couch and Patel in his room. The woman said Patel first woke her up when he tried to kiss her as she lay in the guest room bed. After she rejected those advances and went back to sleep, she said, Patel later picked her up and carried her into his room where he raped her.
Patel told police that everything that happened was consensual. Delray Beach Det. Megan Vickery wrote, “When I asked Patel to go into further detail about his night, he requested an attorney.”
Patel is defended by Patrick McKamey. Christopher Morgan is the lead prosecutor.
