The State Medical Board of Ohio has notified an Austintown family physician that it is investigating new allegations of sexual relationships he had with patients, which could result in the revocation of his medical license.

A Notice of Opportunity for Hearing letter from the medical board to Dr. Gregory Facemyer on July 9, 2025 contained allegations of sexual relationships with two of his patients. According to Jerica Kent, the medical board’s communications chief, the original citation has now been combined with new allegations involving three more patients.

Facemyer has requested a hearing on the new citation, Kent told 21 News in an email, but a date has not been scheduled. After the hearing, the board will determine whether to “limit, revoke, permanently revoke or suspend [his] license or certificate … or to reprimand or place [him] on probation.” It could also issue a fine of up to $20,000.

“The board understands a physician is in a position of power over their patient or the patient’s key third party (parent, guardian, etc.),” Kent told 21 News. “Sexual misconduct, including what is considered a ‘consensual relationship,’ exploits the provider-patient relationship in a sexual way.”

21 News contacted Facemyer’s office via email and phone Thursday, and attempted to contact his personal email, but was unable to reach him for comment.

The relationships described in the letter were all allegedly initiated by Facemyer. The board writes that Facemyer contacted patients via text, call and Facebook Messenger to solicit dates and photographs from them. Facemyer allegedly kissed or had sex with four of the patients.

In the case of a woman identified as Patient 5, the board alleges that Facemyer used personal information that was not given to him by the patient in order to pursue her sexually. This included her personal phone number, and later her home address.

“On Oct. 25, 2023 … you did see Patient 5 outside the office when you drove to her apartment,” the citation alleges. “You texted her while in her parking lot. She had not given you the address. You sat on her couch and tried to kiss her.”

While most of the conduct is described as happening outside Facemyer’s office — at restaurants, hotels, patients’ residences, his own home and over text — it also is alleged to have happened inside the office.

The board accuses Facemyer of “sexual impropriety” at an appointment with Patient 5 in September 2023, “when you wheeled your chair up to her chair and rubbed her legs, repeatedly moving your hand up her leg, to her shorts, and back down again.”

“You offered to conduct a physical exam on Patient 5 which she declined,” the citation goes on to say. “When Patient 5 got up to leave, you tried to hug her, which she did not reciprocate.”

Facemyer is alleged to have had sexual intercourse at his office “on multiple occasions” with a woman identified as Patient 1, between January and July 2010.

Between November 2020 and August 2021 — in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — the doctor would allegedly “remove your mask and kiss or ‘make out’ with Patient 4, in your office, at her medical appointments.”