CCE elects drug doc as public member of its board

When the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) chooses a public member of its board of directors, it seems logical that the person should to represent the public's interests. That's why so many DCs were shocked when they learned of the appointment of a pharmacologist, Clyde B. Jensen, PhD, to that position.

Dr. Jensen is hardly representative of the general public. As a researcher, he's conducted pharmaceutical clinical trials as well as independent research related to drug and environmental toxicology. He's served as president of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, based in Portland, Ore., which is also the home of Western States Chiropractic College, headed by President Joseph E. Brimhall, DC, a member of the CCE board.

Jensen also served as president of the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Oklahoma and is now president/owner of Continuum Biomedical Consultants, Inc., of Portland.

According to the Institute for Cultural & Healing Traditions, where Jensen is listed as a member of the "Core Group," his "experiences taught him that medical professions and their respective modalities form a continuum which, when properly integrated, can enhance global access to quality health care."

In an endorsement for Oklahoma‑based Hallmark Wellness Group, he praised the company for developing a methodology that "should play a major role in merging the languages of the Allopathic and Naturopathic health care systems, enabling these modalities to work together in harmony."

"We have long known that the mission of the CCE and its allies was to merge not only the languages but the purposes of the allopathic and chiropractic health care systems," stated Terry A. Rondberg, DC, president of the World Chiropractic Alliance. "Their election of a pharmacologist who has pushed both osteopaths and naturopaths deeper into allopathy is yet another step on their road to the medicalization of chiropractic. For them to call him a 'public' member of the board is absurd."