Hearing 4443 for Khezerzadeh, Mohammad (Vahid)
January 30, 2026Hearing Dates: TBA
Summary of Allegations
As a result of a referral by the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee, it is alleged that Mohammad (Vahid) Khezerzadeh, while engaged in the practice of pharmacy at Thornhill Drug Mart in Thornhill, Ontario (the “Pharmacy”), and/or as the Designated Manager of the Pharmacy, and/or as a director and/or shareholder of the corporation that operated the Pharmacy, committed professional misconduct in that he:
- processed at the Pharmacy certain identified prescriptions for opioid agonist therapy medication directed to be dispensed at a different pharmacy, thereby creating false dispensing records at the Pharmacy;
- failed to ensure that a pharmacist signed a patient log sheet on each occasion where a patient was dispensed observed and/or carry doses of opioid agonist therapy medication;
- on or about December 19, 2024, falsified a patient log sheet for Patient […] by signing and/or initialing as the observing pharmacist for dates earlier than December 19, 2024;
- failing to take steps to verify, or to document having taken steps to verify, a patient’s last dose of opioid agonist therapy medication, with respect to the following patients and prescriptions:
- Rx issued on December 11, 2024 for patient […];
- Rx issued on December 19, 2024 for patient […];
- Rx issued on November 10, 2024 for patient […];
- Rx issued on October 3, 2024 for patient […];
- signed prescription hardcopies later than the time at which he performed therapeutic and/or technical checks of the prescriptions, and/or without having performed therapeutic and/or technical checks of the prescriptions, for certain identified prescriptions;
- failed to maintain copies of prescriptions as required by s. 156(2) of the Drug and Pharmacies Regulation Act and/or s. 20 of O. Reg. 264/16 made under that Act for certain identified prescriptions.
In particular, it is alleged that he:
- Failed to maintain a standard of practice of the profession;
- Failed to keep records as required respecting his patients or practice;
- Falsified a record relating to his practice or a person’s health record;
- Contravened the Act, the Drug and Pharmacies Regulation Act, the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, the Narcotics Safety and Awareness Act, 2010, the Drug Interchangeability and Dispensing Fee Act or the Ontario Drug Benefit Act or the regulations under those Acts, and in particular:
- s. 156(2) of the Drug and Pharmacies Regulation Act and/or
- s. 20 of O. Reg. 264/16 made under the Drug and Pharmacies Regulation Act;
- Engaged in conduct or performed an act relevant to the practice of pharmacy that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.