August 2004
CCE elects drug doc to 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."
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