Dr. Ayoub Sayeg is barred from practicing in Michigan as regulators pursue allegations involving two patients and his licenses remain suspended in other states.
LANSING, MI — Michigan regulators have suspended the medical license of Metro Detroit plastic surgeon Dr. Ayoub Sayeg, saying allegations in an administrative complaint showed his continued practice posed an “immediate threat to the public health, safety, or welfare.”
The summary suspension prevents Sayeg from practicing medicine in Michigan while the state’s disciplinary case proceeds. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs took emergency action in late September after opening a complaint more than three months earlier. The allegations involve treatment and medical records connected to two patients identified by initials. A summary suspension is an emergency licensing action and is not, by itself, a final finding that every allegation in the underlying complaint has been proven.
Michigan’s complaint details treatment of a patient identified as J.R., who underwent a face and neck lift on April 30, 2024. Regulators alleged that Sayeg created two operative reports for the procedure and that the reports contained inconsistencies involving such details as drains and sutures. The complaint also alleges that one report did not mention the fat grafting and injection portion of the procedure. The patient later returned for additional treatment before receiving care from another provider, according to the complaint.
The state also cited the treatment of a patient identified as D.B., who underwent breast augmentation surgery on May 7, 2024. According to the complaint, the patient later reported that her breasts appeared different in size and shape. Sayeg performed another procedure in October 2024 in which the implants were removed and reimplanted, the complaint says. Regulators also alleged that the patient’s medical record documented procedures involving her eyes without evidence showing informed consent for eye-related treatment or documentation that such procedures had been planned.
D.B. later told Detroit television station WDIV that she experienced months of pain and eventually sought treatment from another surgeon. She said she had complained about Sayeg long before Michigan took emergency licensing action. Her statements describe her experience but remain separate from the state’s formal findings. The administrative case will determine how the allegations are resolved under Michigan’s licensing process.
Sayeg has faced licensing action outside Michigan as well. Illinois temporarily suspended his medical license on July 7, citing concerns about what regulators described as inadequate collaboration with certified registered nurse anesthetists and an immediate danger to the public. Virginia records show that the state imposed a mandatory suspension on Sayeg in August based on disciplinary action elsewhere. The three-state suspensions mean he currently cannot practice under those licenses while the respective proceedings remain in effect.
The Michigan action comes after earlier litigation involving Sayeg in Illinois. In 2024, a Cook County jury awarded $56 million to the family of Idalia Corcoles, a 39-year-old mother of four who died after undergoing liposuction and an abdominoplasty at a Chicago facility in 2019. With post-judgment interest, the judgment exceeded $66 million. The family’s attorneys said Corcoles suffered internal bleeding that was not recognized and treated in time. Sayeg testified in that case that he did not see her after the operation.
Separate from Michigan’s two-patient administrative complaint, another former patient told WDIV that a breast reduction performed by Sayeg in the mid-2000s left her disfigured and with markings she believed resembled his initials. Sayeg denied liability in litigation that later settled, and an attorney representing him challenged the woman’s account, questioning how such an act could have occurred in a hospital without supporting medical records or witnesses documenting it. The allegation has not been established as part of the Michigan licensing complaint described by the state.
Sayeg has maintained medical affiliations in Southeast Michigan. Henry Ford Health lists him as a plastic surgeon with privileges at Henry Ford Providence Southfield and Novi hospitals. Henry Ford told WDIV that Sayeg is not employed by the health system and had not performed a case at those hospitals in more than two years. Corewell Health also told the station that Sayeg was not its employee and was on leave and not caring for its patients.
The doctor is also contesting regulatory action in Illinois. In a civil complaint filed in Sangamon County, his lawyers asked a judge to lift the Illinois suspension, arguing that regulators had not properly disclosed evidence supporting the emergency action and had not identified a specific recent clinical event demonstrating an immediate danger. The filing seeks an expedited hearing. That challenge concerns the Illinois suspension and does not lift or resolve Michigan’s separate summary suspension.
Under Michigan procedure, a health professional whose license is summarily suspended may seek an administrative hearing on whether an imminent threat exists while the underlying disciplinary charges continue. As of Oct. 11, Sayeg remained barred from practicing medicine in Michigan under the summary suspension, and the allegations in the state administrative complaint had not reached a final adjudication.
Author note: Last updated October 11, 2026.