A doctor who was employed as a sleep technician at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney has been jailed for almost four years for sexual assault.
Dr Ali Khorami, a GP, was found guilty of exposing himself to women he was supervising during overnight sleep studies at the centre in 2018.
At his trial at the NSW District Court trial the 50-year old doctor denied charges of sexual assault relating to five female patients, despite evidence from CCTV monitoring showing him exposing himself next to the sleeping patients.
He was also found guilty of drugging one of the women by spiking a drink with temazepam.
The judge said Dr Khorami had committed a gross breach of trust and assaulted the women “at a time when they were particularly vulnerable, being asleep or isolated in their room”.
She also noted that he denied wrongdoing and claimed it was a tantric healing procedure.