The Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine revoked the medical license of Bryn Mawr psychiatrist Amy Mazza MacIntyre on May 28, ordering her to immediately stop treating patients after finding she carried on a years-long sexual relationship with a former Lower Merion High School student she began treating when he was 17.

MacIntyre, 52, practiced child, adolescent and adult psychiatry on Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr. The board's revocation order found she had sex with patient Justin Kopicki beginning in February 2011, when he was 24, while continuing to prescribe him up to 12 medications, including the benzodiazepines Xanax and Klonopin, without proper evaluations.

Kopicki was referred to MacIntyre by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2004 after becoming depressed and anxious as a senior at Lower Merion High School. He had survived leukemia as a child. MacIntyre, then 31, diagnosed him with anxiety and agoraphobia and started him on medication.

By 2010, treatment sessions "became focused on [Kopicki's] sexual activity," the board found. She first had sex with him in February 2011 and stopped billing him for appointments around the same time, though she continued writing patient notes through June 2013 and prescribing drugs through mid-2017.

"If I refused to go away on a trip with her, or I refused to see her, or I wanted to break up with her, she would refuse to prescribe antianxiety medications until I saw her again," Kopicki told The Philadelphia Inquirer in a July 30 interview.

The board's investigation, based partly on emails, texts, and voicemails MacIntyre sent Kopicki, found she gave him a $5,000 saxophone and a Cartier watch, hired him to work in her office, proposed marriage, told him she had miscarried his baby and took him on trips to Turks and Caicos and Walt Disney World. She also prescribed medications to Kopicki's mother and father, who were not her patients.

In spring 2017, MacIntyre showed up at Kopicki's father's house, yelling and demanding to speak with him. His father called 911. Kopicki cut off all communication with her in July 2017.

MacIntyre admitted to sexual misconduct and three other violations of state medical licensing law, including immoral conduct involving a patient, failure to maintain complete medical records and fraudulent or negligent practice. She disputed only the improper prescribing claims and argued for probation rather than revocation.

At a 2025 state hearing, MacIntyre testified she felt "trapped" and that the sex was coerced. The board rejected those arguments, citing "shifting explanations" and a lack of evidence supporting her claims of coercion.

Her attorney, Gary Samms, wrote in an email to the Inquirer that MacIntyre "is an excellent, caring and compassionate physician" and that the board's decision is being appealed to Commonwealth Court. According to the Inquirer's reporting, the board rejected her emergency request to stay the revocation earlier in July.

Kopicki, now 39 and enrolled in law school in Oregon, first complained to the board in 2017 but was advised by his lawyers not to cooperate during a related malpractice lawsuit. MacIntyre settled that suit in 2020 for an undisclosed amount. Kopicki filed a new complaint in 2021. He said he intentionally violated a nondisclosure clause in the settlement agreement, for which a judge ordered him to pay MacIntyre $25,000 in January 2026.

As of late July, a woman who answered the phone at MacIntyre's Lancaster Avenue office told an Inquirer reporter she was still practicing. MacIntyre and Samms did not respond to the Inquirer's follow-up questions about whether she is still seeing patients despite the board's order.

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