Matthew Mclean MD, PhD

Education

2001- 2004 Internship and Residency in Pediatrics
Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY

1994-2001 Doctor of Medicine
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
College of Medicine

1994-2001 Doctor of Philosophy with Distinction
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
College of Graduate Studies,
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

1990-1994 B.A. Biology-Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude
Elmira College, Elmira, NY

Biography

Captain McLean graduated Summa Cum Laude from Elmira College in 1994 with a BA in Biology-Chemistry before matriculating in the combined M.D.-Ph.D. program at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. He defended his Ph.D. thesis in the field of cardiac development with honors and graduated with both degrees in 2001. He received his commission on September 14, 2001 via the Navy Financial Assistance Program and completed his pediatric internship and residency at the Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, NY. He reported to Patuxent River Naval Health Clinic in 2004 followed by Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton (NHCP) in 2006. While at NHCP he redesigned the pediatric curriculum for the family practice residency program, and was recognized as teacher of the year before reporting to Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth (NMCP) in 2008 as the Division Head for Pediatric Primary Care and Pediatric GME faculty. He saw pediatrics through the challenging transition to the primary care medical home care model while also serving as the Medical Director for the busiest nursery in the Navy. He served as Vice-President of the Medical Staff from 2013-2014 before his appointment to the Command Executive Board as Director, Healthcare Business from January 2014 through March, 2019. He managed TRICARE benefit delivery for 160,000 beneficiaries and 45,000 operational assigned sailors and developed unique business tools to maximize provider utilization. During his tenure he streamlined referral processes, increased enrollment by 15,000 patients and was the Navy liaison to the enhance Multi-Service Market driving tri-service market integration. In 2019 he joined the USS KEARSARGE (LHD3) as the Medical Department Head and Senior Medical Officer successfully transitioning it through a difficult maintenance period and basic phase certifications markedly complicated by COVID19 pandemic. He reported as Deputy Commander in 2021 to the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center transitioning and integrating PH functions to the DHA while maintaining robust Fleet and Operational support for services. He was assigned as its interim Commander in April 2023 until transferring to his current position as Force Surgeon, Military Sealift Command in June, 2023.

He is board certified in General Pediatrics, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of its sections on Hospital Medicine and Uniformed Service. He is an active researcher with an interest in common diseases seen in primary care. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

CAPT McLean’s deployments include Operation Continuing Promise (2009), Operation Unified Response, Haiti (2010), African Partnership Station (2012) aboard the HSV2 SWIFT and contributed to Continuing Promise 2018 aboard the USNS Spearhead during its stop in Honduras.

His personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (3), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals (2), Navy Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal and the Armed Forces Service Medal. He is qualified as a Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

7/2023 - Present Force Surgeon, Miltiary Sealift Command

4/2023 - 6/2023 Interim Commander, Navy and Marine Corp Public Health Center

8/2021 – 4/2023 Deputy Commander, Navy and Marine Corp Public Health Center

7/2019 – 7/2021 Senior Medical Officer/Department Head, USS KEARSARGE LHD3

1/2014 – 3/2019: Director, Healthcare Business, Command Executive Board, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth,

9/2008 – Current: General Pediatrician, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA

8/2006 – 9/2008: General Pediatrician, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, CA

8/2004 – 8/2006: General Pediatrician, Division Head, – Naval Health Clinic, NAS Patuxent River, MD

Representative Bibliography

Papacostas, M., D. Robertson, M.D. McLean, K.D. Wolfe, H. Liu and T. Shope. 2022. Sixth-Hour Transcutaneous Bilirubin and Need for Phototherapy in DAT Positive Newborns Pediatrics. 149 (3): e2021054071

Narasimhan, S.R, V. Flaherman, M.D. McLean, M. Nudelman, M. Vallejo, D. Song and P. Jegatheesan. 2021. Practice Variations in Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypoglycemia in Asymptomatic Newborns. Hosp Pediatrics. 11(6) 595-605

Site Investigator for: Taylor JA, Burgos AE, Flaherman V, Chung EK, Simpson EA, Goyal NK, Von Kohorn I, Dhepyasuwan N, on behalf of the BORN investigators. Utility of decision rules for transcutaneous bilirubin measurements. Pediatrics. 2016; 137(5)

Papacostas, M., M.D. McLean. 2015. Blood Cell Exchange in the Treatment of Exercise-Induced Rhabdomyolysis in a Patient with Sickle Cell Trait. Military Medicine. 180 1:3e145

Zajdel, R.W, M.D. McLean, S. Dube and DK Dube. 2013. Expression of Tropomyosin in relation to myofibrillogenesis in axolotl hearts. Regenerative Medicine Research. 1:8

Dube, D.K, A. Narshi, M.D. McLean, S Dube and B. Poiesz. 2013. Gene Expression in Thyroxin-induced Metamorphosing Axolotl Hearts. Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 2:4

Dunlavy, M., J.C. Arnold and M.D. McLean. 2008. Spot the Rash, Case Study Congenital HSV. Infectious Diseases in Children. Vol 21 (11): 20, 51-52.

McLean M.D., R.W. Zajdel, S. Dube, H. Thurston, D.K. Dube. 2006 Tropomodulin expression in developing hearts of normal and cardiac mutant Mexican axolotl. Cardiovasc Toxicol. 6(2):85-98.

Zajdel R.W., M.D. McLean, C.R. Denz, S. Dube, H.L. Thurston, B.J. Poiesz, D.K. Dube. 2006 Differential expression of tropomyosin during segmental heart development in Mexican axolotl. J Cell Biochem. 99(3):952-65.

Zajdel, R.W., M.D. McLean, S.L. Lemanski, M. Muthuchamy, D.F. Wieczorek, L.F. Lemanski, D.K. Dube. 1998. Ectopic expression of tropomyosin promotes myofibrillogenesis in mutant axolotl hearts. Dev. Dynamics 213: 412-420.