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CURRICULUM VITAE

ELMER MITCHELL CRANTON, M.D.

January 2007

SUMMARY

Elmer M. Cranton, M.D. graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1964. He served as President of Smyth County Medical Society, Virginia, and was Chief-of-Staff of a U.S. Public Health Service Hospital. He is a Fellow and Past President of the American College for Advancement in Medicine and a Charter Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice. Dr. Cranton has been certified and re-certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice. He served for many years as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Advancement in Medicine and has authored many books and scientific articles in the field of medicine, as listed below.  Dr. Cranton currently is retired from medical practice and lives in Yelm, Washington, south of Seattle.

PAST MEMBERSHIPS, OFFICES AND AFFILIATIONS

CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS:


 
                                         CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY
Capital Radio Engineering Institute Washington, DC 7/50 to 7/51
United States Navy, electronics technician, naval aviator, aircraft carrier pilot, jet fighter pilot, electronics officer 7/51 to 1/57
Pre-Medical Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado  2/57 to 8/59
Exchange scholar, University of Erlangen, Germany 11/59 to 6/60
Harvard Medical School, M.D. Degree 9/60 to 6/64
Internship, U.S. Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Florida 7/64 to 6/65
Staff physician, surgical service, U.S. Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Florida 7/65 to 12/65
Flight Surgeon Training, U.S. Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, Pensacola, Florida 1/66 to 6/66
Officer-in-Charge and Medical Officer, Byrd Station, Antarctica. Research Station for National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Research Program (Operation Deepfreeze)  
7/66 to 11/67
Flight Surgeon in Charge of Aviation Examining Facility, U.S. Naval Air Station, North Island, San Diego, California. (Part-time Emergency Room Physician, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California.) 12/67 to 5/6

Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Navy
9 /69
Family practice, Encinitas, California. Staff physician, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, Calif., and Encinitas Hospital, Encinitas, Calif. 6/69 to 1/72
Family practice, Arcadia, California. Staff physician, Methodist Hospital, Arcadia, Calif. and the Santa Teresita Hospital, Monrovia, California 2/72 to 3/75
Chief of Staff, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Talihina, Oklahoma 4/75 to 8/76
Family practice, Trout Dale, Virginia. Staff physician, Smyth County Community Hospital, Marion, Virginia 7/76 to 6/89
Mount Rainier Clinic, Yelm, Washington, founder and medical director chelation therapy, hyperbaric medicine, Family practice, age management, and Preventive medicine. Retired 2006
7/89 to 2006

PUBLICATIONS

     BOOKS

  1. Passwater R A, Cranton E M: Trace Elements, Hair Analysis and Nutrition. New Canaan, CT, Keats Publishing Inc, 1983.
  2. Cranton E M (ed): A Textbook on EDTA Chelation Therapy. New York, NY, Human Sciences Press, 1989 (out of print).Cranton EM: Bypassing Bypass. Trout Dale, Virginia, Medex Publishers, Inc., 1990 (out of print).
  3. Cranton E, Fryer W: Resetting the Clock: 5 Anti-aging Hormones that are Revolutionizing the Quality and Length of Life. New York, NY, M. Evans & Co., 1996.
  4. Cranton E M (ed): A Textbook on EDTA Chelation Therapy, Second Edition, Charlottesville, VA, Hampton Roads Publishing Co, 2001, Foreword by Linus Pauling, PhD.
  5. Cranton E M. Bypassing Bypass Surgery. Yelm, WA, Medex Publishers, and Charlottesville, VA, Hampton Roads Publishing Co . 2005.

     JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Cranton EM: Progress and non-conformity, editorial. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1981;3(2):99-100.
  2. Cranton EM, Bland JS, Chatt A, Krakovitz R, Wright JV: Standardization and interpretation of human hair for elemental concentrations. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1982;4(1):10-20.
  3. Cranton EM, Frackelton JP: Current status of EDTA chelation therapy in occlusive arterial disease. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1982;4(1):24-33.
  4. Cranton EM: Limitations of the Index Medicus and Medline computer program, editorial. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1982;4(2):103-104.
  5. Cranton EM: Kidney effects of ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA): A literature review. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1982;4(2):152-157.
  6. Cranton EM, Frackelton JP: Free radical pathology in age-associated diseases: Treatment with EDTA chelation, nutrition and antioxidants. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1984;6(1):6-37.
  7. Cranton EM: The current status of EDTA chelation therapy, editorial. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1985;7(1):3-7.
  8. Cranton EM: Update on hair analysis in clinical medicine. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1984;7(2):120-134.
  9. Cranton EM: Candida albicans: A common cause of fatigue and depression. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1986;8(1 & 2 ): 3-14.
  10. Cranton EM: Critique of the American Medical Association's published position on hair analysis. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1986;8(1 & 2 ):47-53.
  11. Frackelton JP, Cranton EM: Iron and copper supplementation with EDTA chelation therapy. Journal of Holistic Medicine 1986;8(1 & 2 ):63-66.
  12. Blumer W, Cranton EM: Ninety percent reduction in cancer mortality after chelation therapy with EDTA. Journal of Advancement in Medicine 1989;2(1 & 2 ):183-188.
  13. Cranton EM: Protocol of the American College of Advancement in Medicine for the safe and effective administration of EDTA chelation therapy. Journal of Advancement in Medicine 1989;2(1 & 2 ):269-305.
  14. Cranton EM, Liu ZX, Smith IM: Urinary trace and toxic elements and minerals in untimed urine specimens relative to urine creatinine, Part I: Concentrations of elements in fasting urine. Journal of Advancement in Medicine 1989;2(1 & 2 ):331-349.
  15. Cranton EM, Liu ZX, Smith IM: Urinary trace and toxic elements and minerals in untimed urine specimens relative to urine creatinine, Part II: Provoked increase in excretion following intravenous EDTA. Journal of Advancement in Medicine 1989;2(1 & 2 ):351-397.
  16. Cranton EM: Interpretation of trace and toxic element levels in human hair. Journal of Advancement in Medicine 1989;2(1 & 2 ):399-416.
  17. Liu ZX, Harich, KC, Cranton, EM: A laboratory method to measure plasma EDTA levels. Journal of Advancement in Medicine 1995;8(4):233-240.
  18. Cranton, EM: Critique of Danish Chelation Study. Journal of Advancement in Medicine 1998;11(4):241-245.
  19. Cranton, EM. Free oxygen radical pathology and EDTA chelation therapy: Mechanisms of action. i 1998; 11(4):277-310.
  20. Cranton EM. Guest Editorial: What about oral chelation? Journal of Advancement in Medicine 1999; 12(4):237-239.
  21. Cranton EM. EDTA Rectal Suppositories are Poorly Absorbed and Potentially Dangerous (editorial). Clinical Practice of Alternative Medicine. 2000;1(4):222.
  22. Cranton EM. Questioning Oral EDTA Chelation (letter to the Editor). Clinical Practice of Alternative Medicine. 2000;1(4):261-264.
  23. Cranton EM. EDTA Chelation Therapy: A more comprehensive scientific rationale. Clinical Practice of Alternative Medicine. 2001;2(1):26-30.
  24. Frackelton JP, Cranton EM. Revised dose computation and renal monitoring during chelation therapy with EDTA. Clinical Practice of Alternative Medicine. 2001;2(1):32-34.
  25. Cranton EM. Testing for toxic elements and chelation of mercury. Clinical Practice of Alternative Medicine. 2001;2(1):56-58.
  26. Cranton EM. Trace element supplementation may interfere with EDTA chelation therapy. Clinical Practice of Alternative Medicine. 2001;2(4):261-264.
  27. Cranton EM. Critique of the Calgary PATCH study using EDTA chelation to treat heart disease. Townsend Letter for Doctors. June, 2002;107-109.

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