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Petitioner Charu Dave tells California Physical Therapy Board she has retrained and seeks license reinstatement
Summary
At a Sept. 17 hearing before the Physical Therapy Board of California, petitioner Charu Dave testified about decades of clinical experience, family caregiving that she says led to documentation lapses, and recent continuing education and supervised volunteer work she says demonstrate rehabilitation.
Charu Dave, a longtime physical therapist, told the Physical Therapy Board of California on Sept. 17 that she has completed extensive continuing education and volunteer observation work and asked the board to reinstate a license she surrendered after regulatory and criminal proceedings. The hearing before Administrative Law Judge Wim Van Rooyen and a quorum of board members followed agency filings that include an agency case (1D201374030) and an OAH case (2024071028).
Dave testified under oath that she earned a U.S. license after training in India and a U.S. exchange placement in the 1970s and founded private outpatient practices in the East Bay in the 1980s. She acknowledged a criminal matter and related discipline from the early 1990s that resulted in a period of probation and restrictions, and she said she later sold that practice and worked for her brother during probation. She described a separate set of allegations that led to a stipulated surrender of her license in 2015, saying the problems were primarily paperwork and clinic compliance items (examples she cited included recording diagnoses on every chart page, posting required notices and staff name tags, and closing treatment product containers) that she now recognizes as correctable.
On direct examination Dave described caregiving pressures while caring for a parent with dementia that she says distracted her from administrative duties and contributed to the 2015 surrender. She told the board she has since completed roughly 120 continuing‑education hours (54 courses by her count), retrained on several newer clinical techniques, and spent recent months observing and volunteering in clinics to refresh hands‑on skills. She said she is willing to accept conditions on a reinstated license, including probation, supervised practice, and limits on managing support staff.
Deputy Attorney General Aaron Lent, appearing for the Attorney General
