A urologist who teaches robotic surgery — and received a Patients’ Choice Award — was busted for allegedly videotaping up women’s skirts, law enforcement sources said.
Adam Levinson, 39, was arrested during rush-hour Tuesday, after an eagle-eyed straphanger told cops he saw the dirty Doc filming women with a sneaky pen camera clipped to a newspaper, sources said.
A 46-year-old riding the southbound 4 train between 59th and 14th Streets told cops he spotted the crime and followed Levinson at the Union Square station, where the witness watched the specialist target a second woman on the “L” platform, sources said. She was completely unaware, sources added.
The witness told a transit cop that he saw Levinson’s folded-up newspaper and his pen camera aiming at the woman’s private parts, sources said. Cops got a warrant to review the recordings and found several clips of footage backing the claim, court documents state.
Neither the doctor nor his lawyer immediately returned calls for comment. The hospital Levinson works for issued a statement after the arrest.
“Mount Sinai has suspended Dr. Levinson because of his alleged conduct underlying the arrest,” said Ian Michaels, hospital spokesman. “Mount Sinai is fully cooperating with the police and the District Attorney’s office and performing its own investigation for the protection of its patients and employees.”
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Levinson was suspended with, or without, pay.
He was arraigned on charges of unlawful surveillance and harassment early this morning.
The Pennsylvania native made bail, which was set at $5,000 cash or $15,000 bond. He was released from jail earlier today, records show.
Levinson is registered to practice medicine in New York State and has no current disciplinary actions or complaints through the state, according to state records. He has no prior arrests in New York City, sources said.
Before his arrest and suspension, he taught robotic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. He graduated top of his class at New York Medical College, studied surgery at Columbia University and went onto study oncology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He received an award in 2011 for high patient ratings.