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.
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.