Kentucky doctor suspended after more allegations of sexual misconduct surface
A Kentucky doctor previously investigated after claims of sexual misconduct has been prohibited from practicing medicine after new allegations surfaced last month.
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, which has the authority to discipline doctors, issued an emergency order Tuesday suspending Stephen P. Meese’s license to practice medicine until the complaint against him is resolved or the board issues another order.
The board said in the emergency order an inquiry panel “concludes there is probable cause to believe this licensee’s practice constitutes a danger to the health, welfare and safety of his patients or the general public.”
Meese is a doctor of osteopathy specializing in general medicine. His address with the board is listed as Sardinia, Ohio.
In the latest of several complaints against him, a woman who briefly worked with Meese as an employee at Bluegrass Urgent Care in Walton told the board on Sept. 13, 2025, Meese called her into a room, where she found him nude from the waist down.
On that day, the woman alleges Meese “kept flirting with her,” the order states.
“He made a comment about her breasts, asking if she had implants and suggesting that she could be a model,” the board’s order says. “He commented that he would like to see the grievant in a bikini. The licensee asked the grievant if she wanted to see a ‘jack off video’ and proceeded to show her a video of a man, believed to be himself, masturbating to ejaculation. He also called her into a room later and when she entered, he was naked from the waist down. He asked her to examine his pelvic area because he had ‘chaffing’ around his scrotum.”
After work, the woman went to a restaurant next door, and Meese joined her. She recorded the conversation with Meese on her phone.
During the conversation, the board said Meese acknowledged showing the woman the video of a man masturbating, “noting that he moved where they were standing so that the video could not be seen on the security camera” in the office.
Meese also discussed having the employee become one of the chaperones the Board of Medical Licensure requires him to have present while seeing patients. Last June, the board issued an emergency order prohibiting Meese “from being in the presence of any patient” without a board-approved chaperone present at all times.
In the conversation with the employee at the restaurant, the board said “he told her that if they become sexual, she needs to ‘just lie’ on the chaperone form that the investigator will ask her to sign. He also admitted to having sex in the office, but will not name who with.”
The woman also said Meese showed up at her home unannounced in November “under the pretense of giving her a Bengals jersey,” according to the board documents.
The woman questioned him about how he got her address and expressed her displeasure he had come to her home, and she said Meese went back to his car. When she followed him to the car to confront him further, she said Meese “was massaging his groin area on the outside of his pants.”
The board said they were contacted about the allegations Dec. 16 by an attorney the woman hired.
According to the board, Meese said in a written response the employee who complained had “engaged him in a very sexual conversation and asked for pictures or videos, to which he downloaded a video randomly sent to him to show her. He admits that he had the grievant examine an area in his inguinal fold that was irritated and becoming painful, but states it was professional.”
The board said Meese admitted he talked with the woman about the chaperone position.
While he said he went to her home to give her the jersey, Meese said she had asked him for one several times.
According to the board document, Meese claimed the employee was the one who made sexually explicit comments to him. He said “everything was consensual” and no sexual activity occurred.
The board has scheduled the next proceeding in the case for Tuesday, Jan. 27.
Previous allegations against the same doctor
The order from last June that required Meese to have a chaperone stemmed from a situation in which a woman made a report to law enforcement after she saw Meese at an urgent care center in Northern Kentucky.
In May 2024, a detective with the Boone County Sheriff’s Office notified the board he was investigating a sexual assault complaint by the patient who alleged Meese “sexually assaulted her under the guise of conducting an exam,” according to board documents.
Based on her symptoms, Meese’s medical assistant swabbed the woman for strep and COVID, but then, the assistant told board investigators, Meese asked the woman if she was constipated and offered to do an “internal vaginal exam.”
The assistant said she had heard Meese ask similar questions of two other female patients the same day.
Though the patient said she wasn’t constipated, didn’t want a vaginal exam and said she didn’t know what those had to do with COVID, Meese later came out of the room and told the medical assistant the woman was going to have a vaginal exam. The patient told investigators Meese placed his fingers inside her vagina and rectum and he later rested his hand on her thigh while listening for abdomenal sounds.
Meese appeared before a board inquiry panel along with his attorney in May 2025. He told the panel the patient had experienced pain when he palpated her abdomen, so “he could conduct a vaginal or rectal exam to determine if she was impacted; Patient 1 chose the rectal exam; the licensee determined that Patient 1 was not impacted and discharged her home with a diagnosis of constipation,” the board document states.
In June, the board issued an emergency order restricting Meese’s license to require a chaperone when he saw patients.
Allegations against Meese date back to 2017, when a patient who had gone to him for a hysterectomy said he grabbed her thighs as he sat on her hospital bed after the surgery. She said he also made inappropriate remarks, including allegedly saying “I love, love, love giving oral sex” and on another occasion allegedly making a frame gesture with his hands while pointing toward her vaginal area and saying “best view ever.”
Meese, who was practicing in Stanford at the time, denied making improper comments or touching the woman inappropriately.
In 2018, he entered into an agreed order with the board that required him to have a board-approved chaperone present while seeing female patients and to undergo a professional assessment at Vanderbilt University and comply with any recommendations.
In March 2020, upon the recommendation of the Vanderbilt program, he completed a course called “Maintaining Proper Boundaries” at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In November 2020, the agreed order was terminated.
Meese graduated from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1996 and has been licensed to practice in Kentucky since 1997.
The board’s website lists Meese as “semi-retired” from practice.
