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Curriculum Vitae for James Jeffrey Bradstreet, MD, FAAFP

Florida Lic. : #0044408
February 5, 2004
The International Child Development Resource Center
1688 West Hibiscus Blvd, Melbourne, Florida 32901
Practice Phone # 321-953-0278

 

Present Position: Founder and Director of Clinical Programs, ICDRC (The International Child Development Resource Center) a 501c3 not-for-profit. President of Creation’s Own, Inc, a health care and nutriceutical corporation which provides medical care for children with developmental disorders, while developing improved nutritional products for children. I have held a Florida medical license without restriction since 1984. Director of the Child Development Center at Florida Hospital Celebration.

 

Medical Research & Investigations:

Andrew Wakefield, MD, FRCS, FRPath, Director of Research, ICDRC, “Identification of virological disorders presenting as developmental delay.”

Jane El-Dahr, MD, Chief of Pediatric Immunology, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, (504-584-3881) Research Collaborator, “Controlled studies of CSF for vaccine MV”

V.K. Singh, PhD. Assistant Professor, Immunology, Utah State University

(435-797-7193) Research Collaborator, “Paired CSF-Serum evaluations of ASD children for evidence of MV”

Stephen Walker, PhD Wake Forest Molecular Biology, “Gene & Immune chip array studies on CSF”.

Jim Adams, PhD, Arizona State University, “Database analysis of ASD from the ICDRC population and investigation of nutritional issues in ASD”.

Paul Mittman ND, President and CEO, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

Joseph Kandell, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Wright State Medical School, also NASA Research Collaborator

Anne Connolly, MD, Washington University Hospital, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Neurology, (314-362-6981), Research Collaborator, “Immune markers in Indonesian ASD children”

Walter O. Spitzer, MD, MPH, Professor Emeritus, McGill University, Montreal Canada, Research Collaborator, “International Case Controlled Study of ASD”

 

Education:

College: University of South Florida, BA Natural Science, with honors 76.

Medical School: University of South Florida College of Medicine 79.

Residency:  PGY-1 & 2 Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas 79-81. changed into Aerospace Medicine 1981

Post Grad: Aerospace Medicine, Brooks USAF/SAM 81.

Flight School: Randolph AFB 81

Advanced Trauma Life Support USAF 1981

Combat Casualty Care Course USAF/USA 1981

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider and Instructor (numerous times)

 

Teaching, Research and Academic Positions:

Current Faculty

Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Stetson University Florida

Visiting Professor of Child Development, Department of Pediatrics, Southwest College of Naturopathic,         Phoenix Arizona

 

 

 

See entire CV here

 

 

Clinical Positions & Investi gations (Past and Present)

Researcher: Department of Medical Virology University of South Florida College of Medicine 1974-76.

Clinical Instructor: USAF Medical Center Lackland/Uniformed Service Medical School 1980-81

Clinical Instructor: University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio 1980-81

Clinical Supervisor, Scott USAF Family Practice Residency Program 1981-84

Clinical Instructor (Externships) Tallahassee Family Practice Residency Program 1993.

Clinical Instructor (Externship Program) Halifax Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program (1992).

Advisor Surgeon General MAC on Aeromedical Evacuation of Critically Ill patients 1982-84

Advisor, Inspector General of the Air Force, Lt Gen Lief 1983. Appropriate use of aeromedical evacuation of critical patients.

Primary Researcher: USAF F-15 human systems survival and enhanced physiology protection systems for the School of Aerospace Medicine 1981-84 leading to the development of automated cockpit physiology monitoring and enhancing technology for the Strike Eagle.

Director of Research: Autism Research Center, now ICDRC, Palm Bay and Melbourne FL 1996 – present

Advisor: University of Florida College of Medicine, Secretin Research Program 1998 Ralph Mauer, MD and Charlie Williams, MD directors.

Advisor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 1998, Secretin Research Group, Formulating the Guidelines for Secretin Reseach

Co-researcher with Professor Jane El-Dahr, MD Tulane University Medical Center, The effects of high-dose IVIG in children with autism. 1999-present.

Co-researcher with Professor V.K. Singh, PhD, the Utah State University Biotechnology Center and University of Michigan Department of Pharmacology, 1998-1999. The effects of secretin on serotonin and antibrain autoantibodies. Chief Clinical Investigator

Chief Clinical Investigator, Neuroscience and Spine Institute, Ft Meyers, Double Blind Controlled Study of the Effects of Secretin on Behavior, Serotonin and Autoimmunity in Autism 1999-present. (With Dr Kandell and Dr Singh)

Co-researcher with Professor Vas Aposhian, University of Arizona on the Level of Glutathione in Autism and Normal Children

Co-researcher with University of Indonesia Studying the autoimmune aspects of autism in Indonesian Children

Co-researcher with Anne Connolly, MD, Washington University Hospital on the Autoimmune disorders associated with pediatric developmental disorders.

Co-researcher and Senior Investigator, with Walter O. Spitzer, MD, McGill University on the first multinational epidemiology of childhood developmental disorders following vaccines study

Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Clinical Investigator, Immunoglobulin effects in autoimmune disorders of child development, with Jane El-Dahr, MD, Tulane. 1999

Lecturer: Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida on secretin and autism research, 2000, Ralph Mauer, MD Assoc. Prof.

Florida Atlantic University, Department of Education, Medical Supervisor, “Risperdal therapy and Mand training for children with autism.” Denise Ross, PhD

Science Advisor, Kirkman Laboratories, Autism Research

Co-researcher: Robert Wood Johnson, Safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetic profile of oral chelation with meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid and alpha-lipoic acid in children with autism and mercury exposure. Department of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey

 

Hospital Privileges:

 

Celebration Health – Florida Hospital (Outpatient Child Development Center)  2003 to present.

Certified Continuing Medical Education Instructor Harvard University (Autism Education for Physicians)

Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center –OB-GYN and Internal Medicine1979-81

Scott USAF Medical Center 1981-84 OB-GYN and Internal Medicine, Family Practice w/ICU-CCU and OR privileges

St. Elizabeths Medical Center, 1982-85 Granite City Illinois ER/ICU

Spectrum Emergency Medicine Group 1982-86

Barnes/Washington University Hospital St.Peters MO. 1982-86 ER/ICU (Intensivist)

5th MASH Director of Emergency Services 1983

Indian River Memorial Hospital Vero Beach Florida 1984-1988 ER

Sebastian River Medical Center, Family Practice 1988-94 FP

 

Papers, Publications and Invited Presentations:

Detection of Measles Virus Genomic RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Children with Regressive Autism by TaqMan RT-PCR: A Report of Three Cases. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 9 Number 2 Summer 2004.

Biological Evidence of Significant Vaccine Related Side-effects Resulting in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.  Invited Paper presented and submitted to the National Academies of Science Institute of Medicine, February 9, 2004, Washington DC.

Case Controlled Study of Mercury Burden in Children with Autism. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Vol.8, #3, Fall 2003.

TaqMan RT-PCR Detection of Measles Virus Genomic RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Children with Regressive Autism. IMFAR May 2004

Evidenced Based Intervetnions for ASD and ADHD, National Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Portland Oregon August 2003.

Ammonia Levels in Children with Autism, Autism One Conference Chicago. May 2003

National Nutritional Food Association, Invited Lecture on Nutritional aspects of childhood developmental disorders. June 2003

Practitioner perspectives of autism, 2003 DAN Philadelphia

Course Director and Presenter, Autism Canada 2003 June Toronto.

Neuroimaging of Childhood Development Disorders, Stetson University Feb –May

Biomedical Interventions in Autism – University of Pittsburgh Feb 2003

Nutritional Perspectives on Autism, SCNM Jan 2003

Executive Briefing provided by request: Claude Allen Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services June, 2002 in conjunction with Congressman Dave Weldon MD, FL

Testimony – Government Reform Committee, US Congress, June 19th, 2002, regarding the status of ICDRC research findings in ASD as it relates to measles virus and mercury.

Innovative Neuroimaging Techniques in Children with Autism, DAN May and October of 2002.

Neuroimmunobiology of Autism, Autism Society of American Annual Conference July 17, 2002, Indianapolis IN.

Review of the Biology of Autism, Autism Society of American Annual Conference July 17, 2002, Indianapolis IN.

Neuroimmunobiology of Autism, Grapevine Texas, FEAT Organized Conference, Sponsored by    Harvard McClean Hospital June 2-3

Serological Detection of Measles Virus in Relation to Autoimmunity in Autism, (Session 134, Paper V-5) Singh, Jensen and Bradstreet, 102nd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, May 19-23, 2002, Salt Lake City, Utah

Course Director, University College, Dublin Ireland, Biomedical Aspects of Autism, March 21-22, 2002 (Ministry of Health Sponsored)

Course Director, (Harvard-McClean Hospital CME approved) Open Windows Autism Training Program. Jan 2002

Immunotoxicology of Autism, Paper Presented to the MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, Sept, 2001.

Relationship Between Vaccine Components and Risks of Heavy Metal Toxicity and Autoimmunity Presented to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, in Children With Developmental Disorders. July 14, 2001 Published in their proceedings NAS/IOM Vaccine Safety Committee, November 1, 2001

Cutting Edge in Autism Research, Casi’s Quest, Ft. Lauderdale September, 2001.

Pediatric Grand Rounds, Wilmington Hospital, Wilmington NC July, 2001.

Pediatric Neurology Grand Rounds on Autism Autoimmunity, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, June 2001

The Occurrence of Autoimmune Markers in Indonesian Children with Developmental Disorders, University of Indonesia, World Health Organization Conference, Jarkarta, May 2001

Observations of Heavy Metals in both Urine and Blood in Children with Developmental Disorders, DAN Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2001

Update on Current Research in Vaccine Related Developmental Disorders and Autism, US House of Representatives, Hearings April 24, 2001, Ref Congressional Record – Published

Occurrence of Familial Thrombophilia in Autism Spectrum Disorders, DAN October, 2000, San Diego.

Comprehensive View of the Biology of Autism, International Conference on Autism, Quebec, Canada, March 2001

The Role of Secretin and IVIG in Autism Treatment, Biological Aspects of Autism Symposium, Irvine California with Dr Sudhir Gupta, Chief of Medicine University of California – Irvine. June, 2000

Biological Aspects of Autism – HART, Hawaii Autism Conference, Kapioloni Children’s Hospital, Hawaii, April 2000

High Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin Improves Symptoms in Children with Autism, J. Bradstreet, J. El-Dahr, V.K. Singh submitted to the 56th Annual Meeting of the AAAAI 2000

High Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin Improves Symptoms in Children with Autism, J. Bradstreet, J. El-Dahr, V.K. Singh presented at the International Symposium on Autism, Arnhem Holland Dec 1999.

The Biology and Treatment of Autism, International Symposium on Autism, Arnhem Netherlands, Dec 1999.

The Role of Secretin in Autism, International Symposium on Autism, Arnhem Netherlands, Dec 1999.

Biological Interventions in Autism, Nova Medical School, Nov 1999

Successful Biological Treatment of Autism, 1st Annual Biological Basis of Autism Conference, Orlando Florida May 1999

Clinical Outcomes in ASD children treated with Secretin, National Institutes of Health, Marie Bristol Power chair, Presented to Committee reviewing research into ASD. May 1999.

Managing the Difficult Child, Florida Home Educators Conference 1998

“pH Mediated Inhibition of Cell to Cell Spread of Herpes Simplex Virus Infection” Archives of Virology 52,37-46(1976)

 

Medical – Legal Experience and Activities

Admitted as Autism Expert Witness, US Federal Court of Claims – Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, 2001 to present.

Faculty: Lexus-Nexus Mealey’s Legal Symposia on the Medical Aspects of Vaccine Injuries. 2003

 

Awards:

Outstanding Student Researcher: Cancer Division - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 1976

Outstanding Student OB/GYN: South Atlantic OB/GYN Association 1979

American Cancer Society Research Recognition Award  1975

Outstanding Clinical Research Award – Lederle Hypertension Research Project.

Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society (USF)

Nom. Flight Surgeon of the Year 1982

Humanitarian Service Medal USAF

Divine Servant Award – the Christian Care Ministry

 

Practice Experience Beyond Residency:

Director of 1st Aeromedical Staging Facility, Scott USAF Medical Center 1981-84

Officer in Charge of Flight Medicine USAF Scott AFB 1981-84

OIC Emergency Medical Services 5th MASH USA RDF 1983

Emergency Medicine Physician, Barnes Hospital, Washington University, and  St Peters Mo,  and St Elizabeth’s Granite City IL ,Indian River Memorial Hospital, FL, Sand Lake Hospital FL 1983-1986.

Family Practice: 1984 to present

Founder, Health Care Associates Medical Group

Founder, The Good News Doctor Foundation (not-for-profit) medical research and treatment for autism 1996-present

Medical Director – Health South Comprehensive Ambulatory Rehabilitation Center 1991-94

National Associate Medical Director, Travelers and then MetroHealth Insurance Companies 1994-97

National Medical Advisor – United Health Care 1997-99

Autism Clinical Investigations, 1997 to present

Certifications: ACLS, ATLS, CCCC, COLA LAB Supervisor

 

Fellow: American Academy of Family Physicians

 

Community Involvement:

Presidential Advisory Board, Reformed Theological Seminary – Orlando

Membership Current

American Academy of Family Physicians

Florida Academy of Family Physicians

ACAM


 
 

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