The Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners has temporarily suspended Scottsboro doctor Alan Joel Wayne pending a hearing on sexual misconduct and illegal prescribing.

According to a complaint filed with the Board, Wayne was licensed to practice family medicine in 1988.

He was investigated for the first report of sexual boundary violations and prescribing issues in 1998, it says.

It was alleged that Wayne allowed his office manager to order control substances unsupervised, dispensed controlled substances without a license, and prescribed controlled substances to his wife and himself.

The Board placed restrictions on Wayne’s qualifications in March 1999 and entered a voluntary agreement with him which limited his ability to possess and administer controlled substances.

The Board terminated this order in December 1999.

Starting in 2015, the complaint alleges that Wayne engaged in “unprofessional conduct” when he failed to properly utilize urine drug screen tests he ordered for multiple patients he was prescribing controlled substances to.

Between 2021 and 2024, Wayne received multiple allegations of sexual misconduct in the office from patients and employees told the Board it was a pattern of his, according to the complaint.

A woman identified as Patient 2 in the complaint says that during a medical examination sometime in this time frame, Wayne “slipped his hands under her waistband and lifted up her pants so he could see her pubic area.”

“[Wayne] also asked Patient Two about her sexual relationship with her fiancé on more than one occasion,” it continues.

On August 15, 2024, a woman identified as Patient 1 filed a report with the Scottsboro Police Department alleging that Wayne harassed her at his office.

Her complaint, received by the Board in October, alleges that during a series of visits between 2022 and 2024, Wayne “engaged in a series of acts that had no legitimate medical purpose and were reasonably interpreted by Patient One as being romantic in nature.”

“[Wayne] rubbed Patient One’s back, insisted that Patient One hug him before leaving the exam room, told Patient One that she would feel better if she had rough sex, made inappropriate comments about her body and, after entering the exam room and observing Patient One laying on the exam table, told Patient One he ‘finally got her lying down and could lock the door, ‘” the complaint states.

In June of last year Wayne also allegedly wrote himself a prescription for Soma, a controlled substance for pain relief.

The Board said there is probable cause to charge Wayne with five things in total, including:

• Two counts of sexual misconduct based on the complaints of Patients 1 and 2
• One count of unprofessional conduct based on comments he allegedly made to patients between 2021 and 2024
• Another count of unprofessional conduct for prescribing himself Soma
• A third count of unprofessional conduct for “prescribing, dispensing, furnishing and supplying a controlled substance for any reason other than a legitimate medical purpose with the urine drug screens.”

Based on the charges listed, the Board has requested that Wayne cease and desist from the practice of medicine in Alabama.

Wayne’s hearing with the Board will take place July 23 in Montgomery.

The Board is continuing to investigate Wayne and stated that this may lead to additional charges being filed against him before his hearing.