Massachusetts revokes doctor’s right to renew medical license after Jan. 6 attack
Years after punching a police officer during the attack at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a Massachusetts doctor has lost her right to renew her medical license.
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Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland pleaded guilty in 2024 to two felony counts of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, as well as misdemeanor offenses.
The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine announced its disciplinary action against Starer on Thursday.
The board said it had revoked her right to renew her license “after finding that she was among a crowd which stormed and breached the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, and that she struck a Metropolitan Police Officer with her closed fist.”
Starer first received a license to practice medicine in the Bay State in 1983. After being charged in the Capitol attack, she “entered into a Voluntary Agreement Not to Practice,” the board said.
In addition to the felony charges, Starer pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
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At the time of her arrest in December of 2022, Starer worked at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, which later said she was “no longer active at our organization.”
She was sentenced in September of 2024 to nine months of home confinement, telling a federal judge at the time that she wasn’t proud of her actions that day, including her “regrettable encounter” with the officer.
“I accept full responsibility for my actions that day, and I truly wish reason had prevailed over my emotions,” she said.
When he returned to office less than five months later, President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons for those who took part in the Capitol attack, including violent offenders.
