Dr. Samer “Sam” S. Sannoufi is a resident of Newport Beach, Orange County, California, United States. The city is home to the Pacific Life Insurance Company.

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BIOGRAPHY

Sannoufi is an American family medicine specialist and primary care doctor. Here are 13 more things about him:

  1. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.
  2. He owns Timeless Skincare Laser Clinic in Riverside, Riverside County, California.
  3. Aside from Newport Beach, he has lived in other parts of California including Irvine and Riverside.
  4. He previously lived in Gilbert, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA and Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA.
  5. He was licensed to practice in Arizona.
  6. He completed his residency training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
  7. He is 19 years older than Kathy Gee.
  8. In 1995, he graduated from Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv, Ukraine with a medical degree.
  9. In 2004, he graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska.
  10. In 2009, the Arizona Medical Board issued a letter to reprimand him after receiving a complaint from a female patient, then 21, who said she had a consensual sexual relationship with him.
  11. In 2012, he was arrested in Gilbert.
  12. In 2023, he was arrested in Newport.
  13. On June 10, 2025, he turned 54.
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TIMELINE

Sannoufi speaks English, Arabic, Italian, Russian and Spanish. When he was arrested in 2023,  he had a renewed and current license to practice as a physician and surgeon.

2000s

  • In April 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services assigned his National Provider Identifier, a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the U.S.
  • In March 2009, he obtained his medical license in California.

2010s

  • On May 16, 2012, he allegedly offered to perform a free physical examination on Gee when she accompanied her grandfather at his office in Gilbert. He allegedly placed his fingers inside her vagina, rubbed her clitoris and pinched her left breast’s nipple.
  • On May 17, 2012, Gee went to the Gilbert Police Department to file a criminal report against him.
  • On May 21, 2012, Gilbert Police Department detective Darrell Krueger received a notification of assignment to Gee’s case. They arranged that she would return to his office in Gilbert, which she did on May 22, 2012 while secretly carrying an audio-recording device. He was recorded saying, “No, okay this is… No, first of all, yes, all that should come, come together. You should have secretion, you should have, um, you can, you should get moist, and you should have… you should see some things aroused and by the way, I normally don’t do this to strangers, not every patient. If you were a stranger, I would just write your labs. I don’t give a f–k.”
  • On May 23, 2012, Krueger arrested him at his office in Gilbert.
  • On May 30, 2012, a grand jury in Maricopa County indicted him on sexual abuse and two counts of sexual assault.
  • On June 15, 2012, the Maricopa County Superior Court conducted a hearing to consider his request for bail and release. He was denied bail and remained in custody until his trial started on November 6, 2012.
  • On January 4, 2013, a jury declared him not guilty of sexual abuse and two counts of sexual assault and on March 5, 2014, he removed the case to federal court.
  • On April 2, 2013, Gee filed a lawsuit against him in Maricopa County.
  • In April 2014, he extended his family practice by opening the Family Practice Clinic and Walk-In Urgent Care in Riverside.
  • On October 29, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona granted his motion for summary judgment and denied his motion to strike as moot.
  • On February 28, 2017, Tarek Bairakdar filed a lawsuit against him and ST Medical Institute Inc. due to breach of contract.

2020s

  • On June 27, 2023, he was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a consultation exam at Timeless Skincare Laser Clinic. He was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside for sexual assault charges and released on $1 million bail.
  • On July 7, 2023, he was rearrested in Newport Beach for additional sexual assault crimes and booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center where he was held without bail.
  • In August 2024, at the end of a preliminary hearing in his case related to his arrests in 2023, a judge determined there was sufficient evidence to bound him over for trial on oral copulation of an unconscious person, three counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person and five counts of sexual battery of an unconscious person.
  • On October 14, 2024, he re-entered a not guilty plea to nine felony charges, which prompted a judge to set a pretrial hearing in the matter.
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