TRENTON – New Jersey Attorney General’s office has advised prosecutor’s from several South Jersey counties to review autopsies performed by Hisham Hashish, 52, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Hashish, a former state pathologist, had been barred from practicing medicine in the state of New Mexico. He surrendered his license in New Mexico in 2011 due to negligence allegations. According to documentation by the New Mexico Medical Board found by the Inquirer, Hashish was permanently barred from practicing “based on, but not limited to, repeated similar negligent acts and failure to report adverse action taken on his clinical privileges.”
He was hired in New Jersey May 23, 2011. He resigned Feb. 18.
Hashish has performed autopsies in Cape May, Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Cumberland and Salem counties.
Other states, including Nebraska, Michigan and New York took measures to revoke Hashish’s privileges after New Mexico’s actions, according to public records.
New Jersey authorities did not learn about a problem with Hashish’s credentials until this year, Paul Loriquet told the Inquirer, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office.
Loriquet declined to answer the Inquirer about specific questions regarding Hashish’s hiring and resignation. Loriquet, who said he believed Hashish still had a license to practice medicine in New Jersey, did not know how many autopsies Hashish had conducted or whether his work had an adverse impact on any criminal cases.
However, one law enforcement source said it was the Attorney General’s Office that identified the autopsies that Hashish conducted within that county.
Loriquet told the Inquirer that when Hashish applied and was offered the $150,000 position in New Jersey Jan. 15, 2011, he had not yet surrendered his New Mexico license, and he did not disclose any problems. Loriquet said he could not discuss how the state learned there was a problem with Hashish’s credentials.
According to an online profile found by the Inquirer, Hashish was a licensed practitioner in several states, including New Jersey.
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