Meldrum received his Bachelor of Surgery in zoology specializing in vertebrate locomotion at Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University) in 1982, his Master of Surgery at Brigham Young University in 1984 and a Doctor of Philosophy in anatomical sciences, with an emphasis in biological anthropology, from Stony Brook University in 1989 (then referred to as State University of New York at Stony Brook).
Meldrum is also Adjunct Professor of Occupational and Physical Therapy. Meldrum is an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates. He held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor at Duke University Medical Center from 1989 to 1991.
Meldrum worked at Northwestern University"s Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology for a short while in 1993 before joining the faculty of Idaho State University where he currently teaches.
Meldrum has published numerous academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans and Sasquatch (Bigfoot) and is a co-editor of a series of books on paleontology. Meldrum also coedited From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking with Charles East. Hilton.
He edited the textbook From Biped to Strider (Springer, 2004)
Meldrum has attracted media attention due to his interest in Bigfoot. Skeptic Brian Dunning writes that "The work of responsible scientists like Doctor Meldrum is exactly what true skeptics should be asking the Bigfoot community for, not criticizing him for lieutenant"
Meldrum was present at a 2011 conference in Siberia to discuss the Russian wildman.
He acknowledged that the results of the Russian field trip to the cave site were most likely fraudulent.
He suggested that the supposed evidence found was simply an attempt by local government officials to drum up publicity.
