NYC Radio: Unlicensed Ex-WMCA Advice Doctor Indicted

Alan Lupinacci

More than three years after Bergen County, NJ authorities arrested him, former radio show host Alan “Dr. Al” Lupinacci was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack Friday on charges of practicing medicine and conducting surgery without the license he lost after being convicted of sexually assaulting female patients.

The CliffView Pilot reports Lupinacci, 68, whose weekly live radio show “Learn to be Healthy,” aired on WMCA 570 AM New York, lost his license in 1995 after pleading guilty to 10 counts of criminal sexual contact with female patients.

Lupinacci served a year in prison and then was ordered by a judge never to practice again. A state appeals court rejected his attempt to reverse the ruling.

Beginning in 2003, Lupinacci “unlawfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery” under the pseudonym Dr. Alan Woods, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said following his January 2012 arrest.

Lupinacci’s 50-minute “Learn to be Healthy” program also aired at 2 p.m. every Saturday for five years until Christmas Eve 2011. It was streamed live, archived online and made available as an app.

A family practitioner who treated thousands from his West Paterson practice, Lupinacci made headlines in North Jersey when he was sent to prison for a year in the mid-1990s for molesting patients.

Authorities said he talked dozens of women into gynecological exams not for their health but for his own gratification. In one case, they said, a woman came to him for a sore throat. In another, they said, he conducted digital exams on a woman who brought her daughter in for a check-up.

Lupinacci admitted to illegal sexual contact with 10 patients and went to prison in 1994.

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