Holmes' psychiatrist was disciplined by Colorado Medical Board

Dr. Lynne?Fenton, the psychiatrist who was treating James Holmes, was reprimanded in 2005 for writing inappropriate prescriptions.?

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske,?The Los Angeles Times / July 29, 2012

This October 2009 photo provided by the University of Colorado Medical School shows Dr. Lynne Fenton the Director of the schools Student Mental Health Service. Court documents filed on July 27, 2012 revealed that Dr. Fenton, a psychiatrist was treating James Holmes, 24, the suspect in the Aurora theater shooting last Friday that killed 12 people and injured more than 50.

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Dr.?Lynne?Fenton, the University of Colorado psychiatrist who was treating James E. Holmes, according to a court filing by his attorneys, was disciplined by the Colorado Medical Board in 2005.

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State records show?Fenton?was reprimanded by the Colorado Board of Medical Examiners, received a letter of admonition and was required to take a documentation course. Records detailing the discipline were not immediately available Saturday. Neither?Fenton?nor Colorado medical board staff could be reached for comment Saturday.

A University of Colorado spokeswoman said she could not comment on personnel matters, but noted that the discipline would have predatedFenton?s?tenure at the university.?Fenton?completed a residency in psychiatry at the university in 2008 before becoming an assistant professor and medical director of the student mental health service at the university?s Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

Holmes, 24, had been a neuroscience doctoral student at the same school until he began the process of withdrawing in June.

According to 7News, which cited state records,?Fenton?was reprimanded for prescribing medication to herself, her husband and an employee. The medications, prescribed in the late 1990s, included prescriptions for Vicodin, Xanax, Lorazepam andAmbien, according to 7News.

Fenton?was also reprimanded for failing to maintain a medical chart or to enter appropriate entries for the charts relating to herself, her husband or the employee, 7News reported.

As part of the reprimand,?Fenton?had to complete more than 50 hours of medical training and to promise not to prescribe medications to family members or employees, according to 7News.

Fenton, 51, graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1982 and Chicago Medical School in 1986. She completed a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University Medical Center in 1990. After working as chief of physical medicine for the U.S. Air Force in San Antonio, as a physician in Aurora, and later as an acupuncturist, she completed a second residency at the University of Colorado, according to a resume on the school?s website that appeared to have been removed late Friday.

Before the movie theater massacre last week, Holmes had been seeing?Fenton?and mailed her a package containing a notebook, according to a motion filed by his public defenders and released Friday.

Holmes is scheduled to appear in court in Centennial, Colo., on Monday morning to face charges in connection with the shooting that killed a dozen people and wounded 58. At the same hearing, District Court Judge William Sylvester is expected to address both a request by Holmes? public defenders for access to evidence, including the package he allegedly sent?Fenton, and a request by more than two dozen media outlets to unseal the case.

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