
    In the Matter of the Application of Nyapati R. Rao, M.D., M.S., as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Nassau University Medical Center, Respondent, for an Order Authorizing the Involuntary Treatment of Catherine F., a Patient at Nassau University Medical Center, Appellant.
    Submitted October 9, 2007;
    decided October 18, 2007
   Appeal transferred, without costs, by the Court of Appeals, sua sponte, to the Appellate Division, Second Department, upon the ground that a direct appeal does not lie when questions other than the constitutional validity of a statutory provision are involved (NY Const, art VI, § 3 [b] [2]; § 5 [b]; CPLR 5601 [b] [2]).  