conviction_status conviction conviction_penalty name birth_date article_title charge occupation
released in 2010 pleaded guilty february 24 , 2010 six supervised release , months in federal prison , three years ' scott s. reuben 1958 scott reuben
 health care fraud anesthesiologist
scott reuben

scott s. reuben -lrb- born 1958 -rrb- is an american anesthesiologist who was professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at tufts university in boston , massachusetts and chief of acute pain at baystate medical center in springfield , massachusetts before being sentenced to prison for healthcare fraud .
reuben was considered a prolific and influential researcher in pain management , and his purported findings altered the way millions of patients are treated for pain during and after orthopedic surgeries .
reuben has now admitted that he never conducted any of the clinical trials on which his conclusions were based `` in what may be considered the longest-running and widest-ranging cases of academic fraud . ''
`` scientific american '' has called reuben the medical equivalent of bernie madoff , the former nasdaq chairman who was convicted of orchestrating a $ 65-billion ponzi scheme .
