State suspends longtime Boston doctor’s medical license after allegations of misconduct from Harvard alumni

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Board of Medicine has suspended the medical license of a physician who has been on the job for more than a half-century.

The board suspended Dr. Bernard Kreger’s license Thursday after finding he “poses a serious threat to the public health, safety and welfare” based on allegations he “conducted inappropriate and substandard examinations of student members of the Harvard Glee Club” over the course of many years.

Boston 25 News has learned the decision to suspended Kreger’s license was based on allegations of misconduct while he served as a volunteer physician with the Harvard University Glee Club in the 1980s-1990s. Former students came forward with the allegations in 2018, prompting the board to investigate.

When reached by phone Friday afternoon, Kreger declined to comment.

Harvard University also declined to comment.

Up until his license was suspended, Kreger practiced medicine at Boston Medical Center.

“At Boston Medical Center, we take any allegation of inappropriate conduct very seriously,” said a hospital spokesperson. “Based on the decision of the Board of Registration in Medicine, Dr. Kreger is no longer seeing patients at Boston Medical Center.”

Kreger has a right to a hearing at the Division of Administrative Law Appeals within seven days.

He was first licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts in February 1967.

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