Adelaide GP Dr Mario Athinodorou has been struck off for 13 years, one of the longest bans ever given in Australia, over a series of sexual misconduct findings involving 10 women, including one who was a teenager, and one who was pregnant at the time.

The GP’s behaviours included kissing, hugging and groping the women during consultations during a 15-year period. 

Dr Athinodorou, 53, had asked some of the women to undress completely for breast examinations and performed a number of Pap smears without a speculum.

He was found guilty of sexual misconduct and professional boundary breaches in August last year, by the now-abolished Health Practitioner’s Tribunal of South Australia.