The Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) is responsible for investigating complaints about physicians, physician assistants and specialist assistants. The Office also monitors practitioners who have been placed on probation. The Office serves as staff to the Board for Professional Medical Conduct which is comprised of some 200 physicians and lay members. Board members are responsible for the adjudication of cases and for developing direction and policy regarding medical conduct issues.

http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/opmc/main.htm

The web site also has a section that allows you to search a listing of all physicians, physician assistants and specialist assistants who have been disciplined since 1990. For information about physicians disciplined prior to 1990:

Call:
1-800-663-6114
(Monday-Friday 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.), opmc@health.state.ny.us 

or

Write to:
NYS Department of Health, OPMC 433 River St., Suite 303 Troy, N.Y. 12180