Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD, Family Physician
Get to know Family Physician Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, who serves patients throughout the State of California.
Dr. McClelland is a locum tenens physician in the field of family medicine spanning California. From July 4th of 2021, he has been serving a three-month family practice assignment in Gridley.
Prior to his current endeavours, he served in family practices in Yreka, Susanville, Madera, and Atwater from August of 2013 to December of 2020. He then completed short assignments at small clinics in Red Bluff in January of 2021, in San Diego/Mira Mesa from March 29th to April 23th 2021, and in Blythe/Brawley/Calexico from May to June of 2021. The six-year family practice stint in Atwater included a heavy emphasis in minor emergency care for walk-in patients at the Atwater facility’s busy Urgent Care Clinic.
After graduating with his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973, Dr. McClelland had a distinguished career as a Registered Professional Engineer. While he was updating his nine-page consulting resume in 1990, he decided to switch careers. He wanted to apply his disciplined technical background to the practice of medicine. He soon went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1995. He next completed an Internship in Internal Medicine at Central Texas Medical Foundation, Brackenridge Hospital, in 1996. At the age of 45, then, he embarked on an a broadly practical career involving Urgent Care, Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine.
Dr. McClelland has served as a contract physician at Partners Urgent Care in San Diego, California (2011 through November of 2012); the owner/physician of San Diego Immunotherapy (February of 2004 to August of 2013); a physician at Livingston Foundation Medical Center in San Diego (September of 2003 to February of 2004); a physician at Austin Minor Emergency Clinic (January of 2001 to 2002); a physician at ProMed – all Austin locations (November of 1998 to September of 2003); a physician at St. David’s MediCentres (all locations), Austin, Texas (December of 1997 through October of 1998); and a locum Tenens physician at rural public clinics in Central Texas and two family practices in Austin (October of 1997 to December of 1997).
His industrial roles included the technical manager of Austin Operations at Dames & Moore (1989-1991), providing direction of engineering programs and expert services to environmental attorneys (U.S. and international); a senior consulting engineer at Espey, Huston & Associates (1981-1989), providing environmental engineering assessments of health effects of toxic releases, expert services in cases involving environmental law, and processing design and safety assessments; and as a process engineer/production supervisor at E.I. DuPont Company in Orange, Texas (1973-1981), involved in engineering design and process start-up (placing extremely heavy emphasis upon safety).
With special training in emergency medicine, Dr. McClelland holds certifications in Advanced Cardiac Life Support through the American Heart Association and in Advanced Trauma Life Support through the American College of Surgeons.
Currently, he is conducting ongoing research with BioResearch Laboratories (Preston, Washington) into the bacterial pathogenesis of cancers.
Family medicine is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages. The specialist is called a family physician or family doctor. A family physician is often the first person a patient sees when seeking healthcare services. They examine and treat patients with a wide range of conditions and refer those with serious ailments to a specialist or appropriate facility.
Among Dr. McClelland’s professional and scholastic honors include: Selected by America’s Best Doctors for online recognition as one of the Top Doctors in Merced, California; Kuldip Singh Memorial Award for Excellence in Immunology Research (UTMB, 1992); Tau Beta Pi and Omega Chi Epsilon (engineering honor societies comparable to Phi Beta Kappa in Arts and Sciences); National Merit Scholarship, 1969; and Selected for the NSF’s Summer Science Training Program for High-Ability Secondary School Students, University of Texas, 1968 (original microbiology research).
On a more personal note, Dr. McClelland speaks very basic medical Spanish and even basic French. (He is also now studying ancient Greek in his spare time.)
On an especially important personal level, Dr. McClelland “is a COVID-19 survivor from March 2021 with a strong IgG antibody titer.” He is currently planning to start a Telehealth-based concierge practice taking care of COVID-19 patients. Dr. McClelland has spent several hundred hours studying the pathology and treatment of COVID 19, and coupled with his personal experience of the infection, he has successfully used this knowledge and experience to treat a sizeable number of COVID 19 victims.
Learn More about Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland:
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