Isel Pineda
PRETTY UGLY: Dr. Oleg Davie (left) allegedly covered up the heart-transplant history of Isel Pineda (right) after her death. (
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The Park Avenue doctor who performed a risky liposuction that killed a Manhattan woman turned himself in yesterday and was arraigned on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Dr. Oleg Davie, 51, ignored the medical form on which beautiful Isel Pineda, 51, marked that she underwent a heart transplant in 2004, and he falsified the document after she died to cover up his recklessness, prosecutors said in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
“It is shameful that a medical professional would disregard his patient’s safety, putting her in serious danger,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, adding that the forged documents were the “smoking gun” that proved Davie’s guilt.
The Post first reported on Davie’s bad medicine in July.
Defense attorney James DiPietro denied that Pineda’s death was related to her heart transplant but acknowledged that his client may have falsified the medical forms.
“Mistakes may have been made, and panic may have set in,” DiPietro said.
After the 5-foot-9, 130-pound Pineda — whose heart transplant was performed by TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz — went into cardiac arrest and collapsed in the Ukrainian doctor’s Brooklyn office, he took her medical-history form and removed the line where she had alerted him of her 2004 heart transplant, prosecutors said.
Davie’s forgery was discovered when a friend who went to pick up Pineda after the 2012 surgery found the original forms in her purse.
Pineda paid $2,500 for the liposuction.
“That’s what you get for $2,500; you get killed,” said a law-enforcement source.
“She was stunning. She would walk into a room and the music would stop,” said Pineda’s ex-husband, Jeffrey Mayer, who said seeing Davie “brought all the pain and all the realness back.”
The state Department of Health restricted Davie to cosmetic medicine in 2011 and fined him $100,000 due to past negligence.
Davie walked out of court on $175,000 bail. He could receive up to 34 years in prison if convicted.