Scott W. McMahon, MD

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Professional Experience

 

WOLE, LLC – Pediatric Hospitalists (2020 – present)

A group of pediatricians and nurse practitioners who provide pediatric hospitalist services

 

FHL Pediatrics, LLC – Pediatrics (2014 – 2020)

A Group of One Pediatrician and Two Nurse Practitioners

 

Whole World Health Care, PC, dba Elite Medical Clinic –- Roswell (2010 - 2014)

A Multi-specialty Group

 

Whole World Health Care, PC – Pediatrics and Adults – Founder and President (2009 - present)

An Organization designed to meet health care issues here and abroad – specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome

 

La Casa de Buena Salud, Los Niños Pediatrics – Pediatrics (2008 - 2012)

A Multi-specialty Group

 

Roswell Medical Clinic – Pediatrics (2006 – 2008)

A Multi-specialty Group

 

Covenant Care Pediatrics – Pediatrics (1999 – 2005)

A Group of One Pediatrician and One Nurse Practitioner

 

BCA Medical Associates, PA – Pediatrics (1992 – 1998)

A Group of Five Pediatricians

 

Education

 

Undergraduate

Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA (1978 – 1983)

San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA (1982 – 1984)

Creighton University, BS Degree in Chemistry, Omaha, NE (1983-1985)

 

Graduate

Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, MD Degree (1985 – 1989)

 

Internship and Residency

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (1989 – 1992)

 

Medical Activities (Past and Present)

 

Certified American Board of Pediatrics

Certified Shoemaker Protocol for Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome

Completed NIH training – Human Research Protection Program (2013)

Completed CITI training – Biomedical Research (2018, 2021, 2023)

Principle Investigator qualified – Copernicus IRB (2013 – present)

Principle Investigator qualified – Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine IRB (2018 – present)

Fellow American Academy of Pediatrics

New Mexico Medical Society

Chaves County Medical Society

Volunteer Faculty, Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Family Practice Residency Center

Volunteer Faculty, University of New Mexico Medical School of Medicine

Volunteer Faculty, Eastern New Mexico University – Roswell (ENMU-R)

Clinical Assistant Professor, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (2017 – present)

Board of Directors, Respiratory Therapy Program (ENMU-R)

Medical Director, Marshall Infirmary, New Mexico Military Institute (2003 – 2009)

 

Licensure

 

NM Board of Medical Examiners (#92-302)

TX Medical Board (#S0334)

 

Grants

 

CATCH (American Academy of Pediatrics) – “Healing Hands Sick Daycare” - 2005

CATCH (American Academy of Pediatrics) – “The Learning Center” – 2004

 

Presentations

 

International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Webinar – January 2024

State of the Art CIRS Diagnosis and Treatment

I Dream of GENIE Volume 6 – January 2024

ADH: To Pee or Not to Pee? That is the Question.

Healing Healthcare – Colorado Association of Naturopathic Doctors – October 2023

Keynote Speaker – State of the Art CIRS Diagnosis and Treatment

Connecting the Dots – July 2023

Understanding Immune Response Genetics – An HLA Deeper Dive

CIRS Primer Training (London) – November 2022

Keynote Speaker – The Future of CIRS

HLA - It’s Not Just for Transplants Anymore

Neurological Effects of CIRS

Defining CIRS: A Chronic Inflammatory Response to Environmental Triggers

I Dream of GENIE Volume 5 – October 2022

Fun with Statistics

23rd Annual ILADS Scientific Conference – September 2022

I Dream of GENIE

I Dream of GENIE Volume 4 – July 2022

Granuloma Formation and CIRS

Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM) Annual Meeting – July 2022

CIRS Medicine: The Standard of Care

Spring Break with Data – It’s Not Just Mold Anymore – April 2022

Medical Evaluation of a Moldy Apartment Complex

International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Webinar – February 2022

The Exciting and Related Worlds of PANS, PANDAS and CIRS

It takes a Data Driven Village – October 2020

Performing Research in a Clinical Practice

When Data Matters - May 2020

It Takes a Village

Implementing the Shoemaker Protocol

Research Update – 10 Years Data… and More

There’s Nothing Alien About CIRS – August 2019

A Tale of Two Epidemics

New Mexico Society of Respiratory Care – August 2019

Chronic Cough in Children

Keynote Speaker – Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: The Other HP

A Meeting of the Minds – January 2019

What is CIRS: Explanations for Medically Unexplained Symptoms

PANS, CANS, CIRS and Bears

State of the Art CIRS Practice

Cutting Edge in Science and Medicine of CIRS – May 2018

Pediatrics, POTS and PANS

How to Become an Expert Witness – CIRS in Courts 

The HCT 280 Air Purifier vs. CIRS

State of the Art in CIRS II – October 2016

Alternate Means to Diagnosis

Experience with the First 6 Years

Keynote Speaker - New Horizons

Texas CIRS Virtual Conference – April 2016

CIRS Labs: The Who, What, Where, When, How and Why

State of the Art in CIRS II – November 2015

CIRS – Chronic Headaches and Abdominal Pains in Adults and Children

NeuroQuant® – What Was, What Is and Is to Come

State of the Art in CIRS – October 2014

CIRS – Adults vs. Peds

CIRS – NeuroQuant® II

Biotoxin Illness Seminar – October 2013

Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome: Pediatric Pearls

Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome: Physical Findings

New Mexico Respiratory Therapy Society

January 2014 – Indoor Air Contaminants

January 2013 - Asthma Care – What’s New?

January 2012 - Negative Pressure Ventilation – The Original “Iron Man”

January 2011 - Pediatric Mold Exposure Revisited

January 2010 - Pediatric Mold Exposure: The Next Great Epidemic?

January 2009 - Pediatric Airway Emergencies – What Causes Them?  

January 2008 - Respiratory Syncytial Virus  

January 2007 - Cystic Fibrosis and Influenza

January 2006 - Pediatric Pulmonary Practice and PFT’s

New Mexico Pediatric Society – September, 2005 – Travel Medicine

 

Papers

 

Shoemaker S, McMahon S, Heyman A, Lark D, van der Westhuizen M, Ryan J. Treatable metabolic and inflammatory abnormalities in Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS) define the transcriptomic basis for persistent symptoms: Lessons from CIRS. Medical Research Archives. 2021;9(7):1-18. 

 

Shoemaker R, Neil V, Heyman A, van der Westhuizen M, McMahon S, Lark D. Newer molecular methods bring new insights into human- and building-health risk assessments from water-damaged buildings: Defining exposure and reactivity, the two sides of causation of CIRS-WDB illness. Medical Research Archives 2021;9(3):1-36.

 

Schrantz M, Banta J, Charlton J, Heiblum J, Johnson K, McMahon S, Schwartz L, Weatherman G, Weber B, Vukelic A, Shoemaker R. Indoor Environmental Professional Panel of Surviving Mold Consensus Statement for Microbial Remediation 2020. Medical Research Archives. 2020;9(1):1-25.

 

Dooley M, McMahon S. A Comprehensive Review of Mold Research Literature from 2011 – 2018. Internal Medicine Review. 2020;6(1):1-39.

 

Shoemaker RC, Johnson K, Jim L, Berry Y, Dooley M, Ryan J, McMahon SW.  Diagnostic Process for Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS): A Consensus Statement Report of the Consensus Committee of Surviving Mold.  Internal Medicine Review. 2018;5(4):1-47.

 

Shoemaker RC, Katz D, Ackerley M, Rapaport S, McMahon SW, Berndston K, Ryan JC. Intranasal VIP safely restores volume to multiple grey matter nuclei in patients with CIRS. Internal Medicine Review. April 2017;3(4):1-14.

 

McMahon SW, Kundomal KA, Yangalasetty S. Pediatrics Norms for Visual Contrast Sensitivity Using an APT VCS Tester. Medical Research Archives, May 2017;5(5):1-9.

 

McMahon, SW. An Evaluation of Alternate Means to Diagnose Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome and Determine Prevalence. Medical Research Archives, March 2017;5(3):1-18.

 

Berndtson K, McMahon SW, Ackerley M, Rapaport S, Gupta S, Shoemaker RC. CONSENSUS STATEMENT - Part 1. Medically sound investigation and remediation of water-damaged buildings in cases of CIRS-WDB.  Medically sound investigation and remediation of water-damaged buildings in cases of chronic inflammatory response syndrome. January 19, 2016.  https://www.survivingmold.com/docs/MEDICAL_CONSENSUS_1_19_2016_INDOOR_AIR_KB_FINAL.pdf.

 

McMahon SW, Shoemaker RC, Ryan JC. Reduction in Forebrain Parenchymal and Cortical Grey Matter Swelling across Treatment Groups in Patients with Inflammatory Illness Acquired Following Exposure to Water-Damaged Buildings. J Neurosci Clin Res 2016;1(1):1-4.

 

Shoemaker RC, House D, Ryan JC. Structural brain abnormalities in patients with inflammatory illness acquired following exposure to water-damaged buildings: a volumetric MRI study using NeuroQuant®. 2014;45:18-26. (Principal Investigator, Reviewer).

 

Shoemaker RC, Mark L, McMahon S, Thrasher JD, Grimes C. Research Committee Report on Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Caused by Exposure to the Interior Environment of Water-Damaged Buildings. e-published July 27, 2010. Find at: http://globalindoorhealthnetwork.com/files/Research_Committee_Report_on_Diagnosis_and_Treatment_of_CIRS_WDB_July_27_2010.pdf

 

Posters

 

State of the Art in CIRS II – October 2016 – Visual Contrast Sensitivity Testing in Children

 

Miscellaneous

 

Interviewed by Jordan B. Peterson for his YouTube Channel Episode #415 and The Daily Wire

Winner of CIRSx 2021 “Book of the Year Award” – The Art and Science of CIRS Medicine.

Interviewed as a mold expert for The Silent Quarter. Viviane Lovato. 2021.

Wrote the foreword for The BioNexus Approach to Biotoxin Illness. Jodie Dashore. 2021.

Winner of CIRSx 2020 “ACCLAIM Award” for excellence in teaching

Co-author and co-editor of The Art and Science of CIRS Medicine.  Ritchie Shoemaker, Scott McMahon, 

Andy Heyman. 2020

Testified before 9 Congressional aides (House and Senate Armed Services Committees) regarding mold 

in military housing – December 2, 2019 - $300 million allocated by Congress to correct the 

problem on December 18, 2019.

Spoke before the U.S. Government Accountability Office regarding housing of military families – March 

20, 2019

Wrote the foreword for Surviving and Thriving: A Recovery Manual for Patients and Families Impacted 

by CIRS.  Paula Vetter, Laurie Rossi, Cindy Edwards. 2017.

Interviewed as a mold expert for the documentary movie, “MOLDY”. Dave Asprey. 2015.

Winner of the 2003 “Faculty of the Year Award” – ENMMC Family Practice Residency Center.

 

Other Hobbies and Pursuits

 

Chess

Photography

International Missions – Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda

Founder – The Joseph Foundation, Inc.