A former University of Miami urology professor flew back from Dubai to South Florida on Thursday and turned himself in at Miami International Airport, where Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office deputies arrested him around 10:45 a.m. on charges that he sexually battered male medical students under the guise of clinical exams. Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy, 45, once directed UM's male reproductive medicine and surgery program and spent nearly a decade on the university's faculty before his tenure there ended in 2024.
According to WPLG Local 10, police say Ramasamy is accused of sexually battering multiple medical students during his time at the University of Miami, using invasive and sometimes painful medical examinations to do so. Investigators identified six total victims, all men, though only three of those cases form the basis of the three sexual battery charges filed against him, per the arrest warrant cited by the station.
Court filings described by Local 10 allege Ramasamy used a false STD test result with one victim and floated a fake research project as pretense for subjecting students to unneeded testicular, penis and rectal examinations. He reportedly told at least one student that certain semen samples showed abnormalities, and sought semen samples from medical students under the same cover story. In one case detailed in the warrant, he allegedly conducted weekly serial examinations of one man's genitals and prostate, performing prostate massages during those sessions.
Medical Justification Under Scrutiny
Central to the case is an outside medical expert's determination that the examinations were medically unnecessary — a finding that matters because, under Florida Statute 794.011(1)(j), sexual battery is defined as non-consensual sexual penetration or union but explicitly excludes acts performed for a bona fide medical purpose, according to the Florida Senate. That statutory carve-out means prosecutors had to establish the exams lacked legitimate clinical justification before the battery charges could stick.
If convicted, Ramasamy faces the penalties Florida attaches to sexual battery without aggravating factors — a second-degree felony carrying up to 15 years in state prison, a $10,000 fine, and mandatory sex offender registration, per the Law Offices of Alison M. Lopes. A Miami judge placed him on house arrest with GPS monitoring on a $120,000 bond and ordered him to avoid all contact with his accusers, the station reported.
A Decorated Career Now Under a Cloud
Ramasamy's academic credentials made him a prominent figure in urology circles. He earned his medical degree from UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2007, completed a urology residency at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2013, and finished a male reproductive medicine fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in 2015, according to his Wikipedia profile. He went on to win the 2020 American Society for Reproductive Medicine Award and the 2023 Gold Cystoscope Award from the American Urological Association, one of the most prestigious honors given annually to an outstanding early-career urologist in the field.
Ramasamy also built a substantial research record, co-authoring a 2022 retrospective study on PubMed examining medical malpractice lawsuits involving urology interns, residents and fellows to improve trainee supervision. Florida Department of Health licensure records show his medical license, ME123131, remains clear and active through January 2027, with his primary practice address now listed in Dubai Health Care City — a status that persists because Florida licenses stay active until formal board discipline is enacted. He formerly lived in Pinecrest and currently has a listed address in rural Sarasota County, and he had been working in Dubai before returning to South Florida to self-surrender, per court proceedings.
Part of a Wider Pattern in Academic Urology
The case lands amid mounting scrutiny of misconduct allegations against urologists at major academic medical centers. Weill Cornell Medicine agreed in July to pay $30 million to settle patient-safety claims following the 2024 conviction and life sentence of former urologist Darius Paduch, who was found guilty of sexually abusing male patients across multiple prominent institutions, as Hoodline previously reported.
The University of Miami's medical school has also faced separate legal scrutiny this summer. Former Major League Baseball player Avisail Garcia filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in July alleging that Miller School of Medicine physicians failed to diagnose a severe back fracture that ended his professional career, with the suit claiming imaging results were overlooked by clinical staff. Local 10 said it has reached out to the University of Miami for comment on the Ramasamy case; it remains unclear whether the university conducted any internal review when he departed in 2024, or whether additional victims beyond the six identified by investigators exist.
