By DONNA KENNY KIRWAN

The state Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline has revoked the license of a local doctor following his guilty plea to lewdness charges stemming from an incident at the Seekonk YMCA.

Andrew C. Stone, 38, is a physician who worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital and had admitting privileges at Roger Williams and Rhode Island hospitals,
He has had his license to practice medicine in Rhode Island revoked by consent, according to Robert M. Crausman, M.D., chief administrative officer of the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline.
Crausman said Stone’s license had been suspended by the board on Dec. 21, 2006, following its investigation into allegations at the Seekonk YMCA, in Barrington, R.I., and Northbridge, Mass.
He said the board had made the decision to summarily suspend the license after deeming Stone to be “an immediate danger to the public.”
In addition, Rhode Island Hospital had suspended Stone’s admitting privileges as of Dec. 21, 2006, pending completion of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Stone was arrested and arraigned in the Sixth District Court in Providence for the purpose of extraditing him to Massachusetts to face charges of “open and gross lewdness.”
Those charges were filed by Seekonk Police stemming from an incident at the Newman YMCA in Seekonk. Stone pleaded guilty to four felony counts of open and gross lewdness and was sentenced to serve four months in the Bristol County House of Corrections, according to the licensing board.
Crausman said that Stone’s eligibility to return to practice may be considered after a minimum of five years from the date of the initial suspension. To be considered, he will have to make a substantial showing of remediation through “inpatient” evaluation and subsequent treatment, Crausman added.
Stone is a 1999 graduate of the University of Vermont Medical School. He received post-graduate training under Brown University’s program in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Rhode Island Hospital. He was licensed to practice medicine in Rhode Island in 2006.