Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, October 15, 1994                   TAG: 9410170073
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                  LENGTH: Short

VA. BOARD LETS REPRIMANDED DOCTOR PRACTICE

Fierro, a fertility specialist reprimanded and fined two years ago by the Board of Medicine over a procedure that led to a patient's becoming infected by the AIDS virus, was cleared to return by a board conference committee.

``I learned a lot,'' Fierro told the panel.

Fierro plans to join a three-physician obstetrics and gynecology practice in Richmond next month.

At the time of the board's action in September 1992, Fierro had closed his Richmond practice and moved to Greenville, N.C., where his wife, Dr. Marcello Fierro, had taken a position with East Carolina University Medical School. They subsequently returned to Richmond, where she took a job as the state's chief medical examiner.

The board panel did not solicit testimony from the patient infected with the AIDS virus, and she did not attend Friday's session.

- Associated Press