The Immune Recovery Clinic of the Immune Recovery Foundation

Medical Staff

Clinical Director and CEO, S. Edward Bradford, P.A.

S. Edward Bradford is the Clinical Director for the Immune Recovery Foundation and the Atlanta Immune Recovery Clinic's Clinical and Managing Director. He received his Physician Assistant (PA) education at the University of Utah College of Medicine, Physician Assistant Program, Salt Lake City, Utah. He completed his internship in Las Vegas, Nevada and has practiced as a civilian Physician Assistant for more than 24 years. Mr. Bradford completed 22 ½ years of military service. Prior to his retirement from the armed forces, he served as a Senior Instructor at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and as a Medical Air Crew Member with the Air Force Aero-Medical Evacuation System.

Mr. Bradford was the CEO of three out-patient primary care health facilities, which provided extensive care to indigent and gray area patients. Mr. Bradford is the recipient of the Howard County Maryland’s equivalent to the 1000 Points of Light Award for his outstanding contributions to community health care. He is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and is a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the Georgia Association of Physician Assistants.

Director of Research, C. Richard Kinsolving, Ph.D.

Dr. Kinsolving is a pharmaceutical scientist as well as an executive. He was responsible for the development and registration approval of 10 new drug entities (NDAs) and four new formulations (ANDAs). He is the developer of the concept for non-sedating antihistamines and the designer of the first such drug, Seldane® (terfenadine), which reached $ 2+ billion in annual sales. He also is listed as the inventor on 17 issued  patents in the pharmaceutical area.Dr. Kinsolving also was a member of the research team (Post et. Al.) which discovered and named the Na+ / K+ transport ATPase enzyme , an important component of cell and nerve electrical transmission.

His writings have been published in more than 45 peer-reviewed journal articles; a list of Dr. Kinsolving's publications and patents may be found on this link. During the last few years, Dr. Kinsolving has dedicated himself to researching immunology in general, and the clinical application of immunology to cancer and other disease therapy, as the autoimmune diseases - rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. He is currently involved with research combining IAT modified conventional chemotherapy with immunotherapy and the combined use of transfer factor and vaccines. Much of this work has been in collaboration with Dr. Raymundo Diaz and Dra. Christina Rodriguez.

Dr. Kinsolving keeps the staff updated as to how we can employ new developments and technology in our treatments. He lectures the staff and holds Q & A sessions with the patients. He is also assembling a group of consultants to work with IRC in the emerging areas of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy and Intra Arterial Therapy. Both of these innovations offer promise in refining the use of radiotherapy and chemotherapy respectively. This is of particular importance because these techniques can be used with immunotherapy if properly sequenced. The goal is to find ways to integrate new discoveries in conventional medicine with the clinic's work -  integrative medicine.

Research and medicine are almost synonymous. We are bombarded daily by the media with new research, giving the promise of dramatic cures (usually years away). This is the popular press. The real reports are found in the scientific press and are technical, dull, and generally presented as steps rather than a totally new therapy. New drugs reported are usually only a slight improvement in the current catalogue (they may be financially promising, however). IRC believes that we need to stay abreast of those new reports that may offer a positive impact on our therapeutic protocols, which we continually strive to improve. These reports may not reach the popular press. They involve studies on different ways to use existing agents, synergies seen with conventional drugs and immune agents - in short, ways to make our therapies more effective.

Slava Pashkevich, M.D., Ph.D., MMS

Dr. Slava Pashkevich  graduated from the Odessa Medical University in the Ukraine in 1973 with an M.D. degree in Pediatric Neurology.  He practiced at the Regional Children's Hospital for two years and then joined the staff of The Odessa Research Rehabilitation Institute, one of the country's premier research facilities. 

In 1982 Dr. Pashkevich earned his Ph.D. in neuro-endocrinology focusing on the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents.  in 1998 he earned a second Ph.D. in holistic science and alternative medicine from LaSalle University in Lousiana.   Following his move to the United States in 1990 he worked in the Neuro-Diagnostic Department at the Jewish Hospital as well as in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Louisville.  In 1999 he received a diploma as a Fellow of the American Board of Acupuncture and was certified in Neuro-Diagnostic and Neuro-Feedback fields.

Dr. Pashkevich completed his CEC in Biological and Functional Medicine in 2000 in Fox Hollow, KY, and in Schiltach, Germany.  Subsequently, he established the Institute for Integrative Medicine in Louisville, KY, where he realized his dream of integrating traditional and non-traditional medicine.  In 2001 he moved to Atlanta and worked at the Emmanuel Center for Health, which later became the HEALTHYSELF Center for Health.   And in 2004 he joined the Immune Recovery Foundation.  Dr. Pashkevich brings along his extraordinary commitment to healing and his extensive expertise in acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine, bio-feedback and mind-body medicine.  For a more detailed look at his work and his publications, please click here.

Vlade M. Gagovski, M.D., LMCC, DMP

Dr. Vlade Gagovski is a medical doctor as well as a Licenciate of the Medical Council of Canada. Following his undergraduate work in Toronto, Ontario, he completed his medical education at The Medical Academy of Sofia, Bulgaria in 1983.  His post-doctoral training included a general comprehensive internship in internal medicine at the St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario which was followed with an internship at the Doctors Hospital in Toronto, both of which are University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine affiliated hospitals. 

Dr. Gagovski was named a Designated Medical Practitioner (DMP) for Canadian Immigration in 1992, a position he holds to this day.  He also practices medicine at both the The Court Medical Arts Centre in Toronto and the Chelwood Medical Centre in Scarborough.  In 1993 Dr. Gagovski he became an associate of Dr. Jesse Stoff at Immune Therapies International. Within a few years Dr. Gagovski developed a special interest in the comprehensive treatment of solid tumor cancers.  This interest broadened into developing treatments that would integrate and support more commonly used traditional treatments. He has been an associate of the Immune Recovery Foundation, Atlanta, since 2004, and today he is the director of our Toronto Clinic, located in Scarborough, Ontario. Dr. Gagovski is a member of The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and The Ontario Medical Association.  For a more detailed look at his work, please click here.

Director of Quality Control, Assistant Director of Nurses, Lesley Harof, RN

Director of Nurses, Colleen Bradford, RN

Following receipt of her Registered Nursing (RN) license in 1989, Colleen S. Bradford joined the Oncology Team of the University of Maryland's Medical Center at Baltimore, where she had her introduction to the care and treatment of patients with cancer and chronic illnesses of the immune system.

Ms. Bradford's 14 years of nursing experience also includes home health, staff school nursing, correctional medicine, as well as adolescent and adult psychiatric care.

Colleen has served as charge nurse in various nursing disciplines and as the Acting Director of Nursing for nine months at the Devereux Center of Georgia.

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