A former Adelaide doctor who was struck off the medical register over repeated sexual misconduct has died while overseas.
According to The Advertiser, Bali police confirmed the death of Mario Athinodorou, who reportedly died on July 28 while holidaying on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
His body has since been transferred to a funeral home in Denpasar.
Athinodorou was banned from practising medicine in 2018 following a tribunal that found he had breached professional boundaries with 10 female patients over a period spanning at least 15 years at the Harbour Medical Services clinic in North Haven.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) described the resulting 13-year ban as “one of the highest ever for a health practitioner”.
He was also prohibited from providing any other health-related services to women, including massage, during that period.
Documents from the 2018 proceedings detailed a pattern of misconduct, including inappropriate touching, groping, kissing patients on the lips, hugging them, asking them to undress, and persistent contact under the guise of check-ups.
Athinodorou, a married father of four from Woodville South, had denied exploiting his patients, despite previously admitting to aggravated indecent assault of three women in 2016.
Further details surrounding his death have not been released.
