TORONTO

A woman says she was shocked when Dr. Rod Kunynetz stripped off her dress and peered under her bra and panties during a checkup for a mole on her arm.

“What are you doing?” the mother of two recalled asking the Barrie dermatologist after he started lifting up her dress during the appointment in September 1999.

She told his discipline hearing at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Thursday that she dropped her arms to stop the doctor.

He gave no warning and never asked permission to remove her clothing as he stood behind her, she said.

“He said, ‘While you are here, I may as well look at the rest of you,” she told the committee.

“I felt completely shocked — I was just so stunned. I was not expecting it.”

She said she lifted her arms and Kunynetz pulled her full-length dress over her head.

Kunynetz pulled out her bra and looked at her breasts and then pulled out her underwear and looked at her genitals, she told the panel.

“I felt embarrassed and violated as I stood there in my high heels and lingerie,” the woman, now 44, said. “I just didn’t think I’d be standing there like that.”

She admitted to Kunynetz’s lawyer, Matthew Sammon, that the doctor “made no inappropriate or sexualized comment” during the encounter.

“He didn’t say anything that I would be offended by, no,” the woman said.

Kunynetz didn’t spend more time observing her breasts or pubic area than any other body part, she said.

The complainant, who was educated as a registered nurse, said she phoned the college as she tried to come to terms with what happened, but was extremely busy at that time, raising a two-year-old and a two-month-old baby, so she didn’t follow through with a formal complaint.

A college investigator phoned her 18 months ago after receiving another complaint and that’s when she decided to proceed.

In her opening statement, College prosecutor Carolyn Silver alleged Kunynetz sexually abused four female patients between 1999 and December 2013. Kunynetz has denied any misconduct.

The four complainants cannot be identified because of a publication ban.

Late last year, Kunynetz tried to fight the suspension of his medical certificate in court. He provided evidence from a urologist that he couldn’t have rubbed his penis on seated patients because his belly is too large and his manhood too small.

The judge upheld the suspension until the doctor’s hearing before the college.

sam.pazzano@sunmedia.ca