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DR. ROSS B. GORDON M.D.
BOARD MEMBER INTROSPECTIVE:
DR. ROSS B. GORDON M.D.
Ross Burdette Gordon was born in 1931. He attended Madison West High School in Madison, Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin; the Chicago College of Osteopathy, where he received his D.O. degree; and the University of California at Irvine, where he received his M.D. degree (1962).
Dr. Gordon became an early disciple of EDTA chelation therapy in cardiovascular and other diseases and, with physician brother Garry Gordon, M.D., was a co-founder of the American College of Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), the major chelating doctors' professional group in the United States.
Working with the FDA, he spent 25 years and vast sums of his own money laboring to have chelation therapy tested and approved.
Early-on sensitive to the needs of minority and lower-income communities, Dr. Gordon established a 24-hour emergency hospital in the Watts area of Los Angeles, where he won much renown for his medical skills and personal generosity.
A surgeon, medical doctor, and osteopath who also studied law, Dr. Gordon was a private-practice physician for over 40 years. He was also an accomplished pianist, skier, golfer, and sportsman.
As a board member of the NHF, Ross Gordon once wrote:
"Patients need independent knowledge and control of their own health and destinies. Healing is more effectively supported through a combination of the expert skills of health professionals, along with the self-knowledge and involvement of the individual patient." He also always maintained that a doctor's continuing duty was to find those cures as yet undiscovered.
The health-freedom and medical innovations communities mourned his death after he died on December 22, 1999, at age 68 while driving in San Francisco.
He had recently married his widow, Maureen Salaman Gordon of Atherton, California, president of the National Health Federation (NHF) and an internationally-acclaimed author and veteran crusader for health freedoms in her own right. At the time of his death, Dr. Gordon maintained busy medical practices in Palm Springs and Albany, California.
