Merced, CA - Edwin Bashaw McClelland is
being recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Distinguished Name in
Medicine and in acknowledgment of his critical work on the front lines
of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dating back to the earliest days of the
COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. McClelland has been in the trenches of the war. While
working in an Urgent Care clinic near Merced, he discovered two of the first
three COVID-19 infections in Merced County. He was later appalled to learn that
the afflicted 90-plus-years-old couple passed away in the local hospital after
receiving delayed, therefore lethally inadequate, treatment due to bureaucratic
entanglements. Dismayed by the CDC's overall response to COVID-19, Dr. McClelland
resolved to do everything in his power to heal his patients during their
quarantine, i.e. before they became too sick to treat, before
they were even permitted to go to the hospital.
Dr. McClelland maintains that real
doctors facing real emergencies always perform their sacredly sworn duty to
save lives, even at their own risk. Since his earliest encounters with the
virus, Dr. McClelland has spent well over 500 hours of his spare time learning
everything he could about COVID-19. As a traveling/temporary (locum tenens)
Family and Urgent Care Physician working in clinics all over California, he has
helped scores of COVID-19 patients beat the disease. Dr. McClelland even saved
the life of a fellow physician with COVID-19 in early 2020–through a single,
impromptu “Telehealth” call.
Dr. McClelland is now planning a very
broad Telehealth-based concierge service to address crucial issues of
COVID-19—from prophylaxis to outpatient therapy to long-term symptoms. Dr.
McClelland points out that Integrative Medicine has provided physicians with
powerful weapons in the war against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. McClelland started his college
education at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1973 with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. He worked as an engineer
for eighteen years, earning the prestigious status of Registered
Professional Engineer in 1997. After an eight-year career as a Process
Engineer and Production Supervisor at the E.I. DuPont Company (1973-1981), he
worked for ten years as a consulting engineer in Austin, first as a Senior
Consultant at Espey, Huston & Associates (1981-1989) and then as Technical
Manager of Austin Operations at the international firm Dames & Moore
(1989-1991). At the two highly respected consulting firms, Dr. McClelland
sharpened his Chemical Engineering design skills while adding years of
experience in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Dr. McClelland enjoyed working with
environmental attorneys in high-profile cases. He was officially certified as
an Expert Witness in Federal Court for one such case. He was privileged to
testify in a successful lawsuit by a private party against the EPA.
Furthermore, Dr. McClelland had leading consulting roles in projects for
Exxon's Board of Directors and numerous other Fortune 500 clients including
Mobil Oil, Georgia-Pacific, Diamond Shamrock, IBM, Motorola, Mitsubishi, and
Saudi Aramco during his consulting career. He traveled from coast to coast in
the U.S. and worked in Mexico, South Korea, and Japan.
After his meteoric rise as a
Professional Engineer, Dr. McClelland realized that he was ready for a change
in the second half of his career. His faithful and supportive wife agreed that
he would make an outstanding physician. Edwin Bashaw McClelland soon became the
oldest student in the Class of 1995 at the historic University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston. After earning his Doctorate in 1995, he entered and
completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Central Texas Medical
Foundation at Brackenridge Hospital.
Completing that internship in 1996 at
the age of 45, Dr. McClelland was eager to start the public practice of
medicine. Dr. McClelland started practicing in Central Texas, working at public
and private clinics, including most of Austin's urgent care clinics and
hospital-owned family practice clinics. He has now practiced medicine for 25
years in Urgent Care, Family Practice, and Integrative Medicine.
In 2002, one of Dr. McClelland’s cancer
patients from Austin secured for him an invitation to work at the world-famous
Livingston Foundation Medical Center in San Diego. The LFMC had been founded in
1969 by Dr. Virginia Livingston, a physician-scientist and expert microscopist
who was a true pioneer in what is now known as Integrative Medicine,
developing her protocol with the early assistance of her Immunologist husband,
Afton Livingston, M.D. After Dr. McClelland obtained his California
Medical License, he joined the LFMC in 2003. The LFMC's controversial but
brilliant founder "Dr. Virginia" had passed away in 1990;
still, in his sojourn at the LFMC, Dr. McClelland saw riveting evidence that
her immunity-boosting approach had been impressive for
treating several chronic and complex diseases—especially cancer.
After Dr. Virginia's heirs made the
surprising decision to close the LFMC in 2004, Dr. McClelland opened a new
clinical business taking care of the LFMC's worldwide clientele. In addition to
servicing those active patients, Dr. McClelland accepted new patients from all
over the globe, including a terminal patient whom he traveled to comfort in
Indonesia. During that one-week visit to Indonesia, he was introduced to
several top academicians and private physician-researchers—and he was
subsequently invited back to Indonesia in a sponsored visit to give a
university seminar on microbial origins/co-factors for many cancer types.
As Dr. McClelland's reputation in Integrative Medicine grew by word of mouth,
he was contracted to use his peculiar combination of engineering and medical
skills to develop the feasibility study and master plan for a five-star medical
resort in the island Republic of Mauritius.
During an economic downturn overlapping
the Bush and Obama administrations, Dr. McClelland decided to become a
traveling doctor again. Since his laboratory-centered and educationally
intensive immunotherapy clinic was not portable, he closed it in 2012,
intending eventually to resume his scientifically updated version of Dr.
Virginia's Integrative Medicine protocol. In the present locum tenens phase
of his medical career, Dr. McClelland has worked from the Mexican border to the
Oregon border and numerous communities. He and his wife have been delighted to
experience beautiful California's diverse topography, climate zones, flora, and
fauna. His current assignment is near Chico, while his home base is Merced.
Honored and awarded for his work, Dr.
McClelland was recently identified by a well-respected online physician search
organization as one of the Top Doctors in Merced, California. He won the Kuldip
Singh Memorial Award for Excellence in Immunology Research (UTMB 1992) in
medical school. He was elected to the national Tau Beta Pi and Omega Chi
Epsilon Engineering Honor Societies in college. In high school, he won a
National Merit Scholarship (1969).
In 2021, Dr. McClelland was recognized
with a profile feature in Pro News Report and IssueWire. Outside of his
clinical work, Dr. McClelland is collaborating with BioResearch Laboratories
(Preston, Washington) in novel research centering on the bacterial pathogenesis
of cancers.
On a more personal note, Dr. McClelland
is an avid reader. He especially enjoys studying the relationship between the
Bible's Old and New Testaments. He also speaks basic medical Spanish and basic
conversational French, and he is now sharpening his skills in ancient Greek. If
he ever retires from Medicine, he would like to pursue a Ph.D. in Classics.
