The nurse practitioner who treated actress Stevie Ryan and engaged in a sexual relationship with her months before she took her own life has lost his California nursing licenses.
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Who is Gerald Baltz?
Gerald Baltz, who often goes by the credentials Dr. Jay Baltz, is a nursing practitioner with four active nursing licenses in California. He holds multiple nursing degrees from Saint Louis University and is permitted to prescribe medicine. His LinkedIn profile describes him as a Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.
According to Baltz s bio on MelrosePsych, he is a DNP, PMHNP-BC who has been practicing since December 2009. He hails from St. Louis, Missouri, but moved to New York City after completing high school. In New York, he pursued a BFA degree in Creative Writing and briefly taught English literature in high school. Later, he left teaching to design web pages, administrate computer networks and write copies from companies like Accenture, Liz Claiborne, and Dell.
Stevie Ryan seemed ready to break out of a rut.
Her pioneering work as an early YouTuber had led to a VH1 show, but “Stevie TV” was canceled after two seasons and Ryan subsequently struggled to chart a course in Hollywood. For a period, she had stopped going to auditions altogether.
In spring 2017, however, she recommitted to her career, telling her manager that she was ready to get back to work.
Around the same time, Ryan was also allegedly starting a new relationship one with Gerald Baltz, a nurse practitioner who for two years had provided her with psychiatric care, issuing her prescriptions for several drugs used to treat mental health disorders.
REVEALED: Male nurse who was treating You Tube comedienne Stevie Ryan, 33, for mental health issues before she killed herself was also sleeping with her and told her NOT to go to hospital despite feeling suicidal
Stevie Ryan, who gained fame on YouTube with impersonations of celebrities, committed suicide in her Los Angeles home back in 2017 at the age of 33
Gerald Baltz, a nurse practitioner who treated the YouTube star before she killed herself, has been accused of having a sexual relationship with her
The details have emerged due to legal proceedings being brought against the nursing practitioner that seek to revoke or suspend his licenses