Allen Physician Karthik Sampath Arrested in Collin County - D CEO Magazine

After Collin County issued a warrant for Dr. Karthik Sampath in December, the UTSW-trained physician was booked into Collin County jail on Feb. 13. He previously failed multiple times to appear before the judge since being charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) in December of 2024.

Court records indicate that this is the third time he has been arrested for DWI, which is a third-degree felony and could spell two to 10 years in prison, up to $10,000 in fines, and license suspension of up to two years. Last fall, D CEO Healthcare reported that the Texas Medical Board revoked his physician license after he was accused of using racial slurs at a restaurant in Plano.

Records also show that Sampath failed to appear before the Collin County judge on Feb. 9, forfeiting his bond and resulting in an arrest warrant. Sampath appeared in court on Halloween last year, when records indicate he was instructed to be timely for his trial date to remain in compliance with his bond conditions, after failing to appear the day before on Oct. 30.

Sampath’s latest legal trouble arrived at the end of a long downward spiral from what once appeared to be a promising career. After he lost his arm in a motorcycle accident during medical school, an online biography said he went on to become a physical medicine and rehab (PM&R) physician, which is the kind of doctor with whom he would have worked as he recovered from his crash.

He attended medical school at the University of Texas at Galveston and trained at UT Southwestern to specialize in PM&R. He later started his own practice and was once affiliated with Post Acute Medical (PAM) Rehabilitation of Allen, though Sampath lives in McKinney. In November 2023, he was a featured presenter at a Dallas College men’s health and wellness event.

But TMB discipline and legal troubles have followed Sampath as well. TMB penalized him for failing to report that he had been placed on probation in 2011 during residency for patient care and professionalism issues, and he was arrested for driving under the influence multiple times over the past two decades.

Court documents from Dallas County show a 2020 judgment against Sampath in an Illinois lawsuit, in which the plaintiff was awarded $750,000 for fraud and punitive damages. On the Instagram account @dallaspmrlife, where the speaker calls himself Karthik Sampath, he posted a video of a constable serving him paperwork due to a judgment against him. He also discusses how he was incarcerated in Collin County for 47 days.

Despite at least one arrest, multiple drunk driving incidents, probation during residency, hundreds of thousands of dollars in judgments against him, and prior discipline by the Texas Medical Board going back to 2011, Sampath remained a fully licensed physician until November, when his license was revoked by the TMB after he was arrested for public intoxication and assault in July 2024. Sampath allegedly had an altercation with a fellow patron at upscale restaurant Earls Kitchen + Bar at Legacy West in Plano, where he called the assault victim racial slurs and threatened to kill them.

In @dallaspmrlife’s most recent post, the speaker (who calls himself Karthik Sampath) tells a uniformed Richardson police officer that there isn’t an active warrant in his name because he has been in contact with the court and told them he has influenza, and they are waiting to update his court and trial dates. The video is dated Feb. 10, the day after court records say Sampath failed to appear.

D CEO Healthcare reached out to Sampath’s lawyer for this story, but did not hear back by the time of publication.

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