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We lost a good one. Please observe a moment of silence for the passing of one of the greats.
RIP Charles Aprill, MD: A Pioneer, Mentor, and Friend to our Specialty
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rest in peace to a Legend.
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Godspeed Ye, Dr. Aprill
Thank you for making this world a better place for the suffering.
Thank you for making this world a better place for the suffering.
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When Giants roamed our Halls...
"Dr. Aprill was intrigued by exploring the potential for how his foundational studies could inform the emerging spinal injection evidence base to lead to a world with less debilitating pain, fewer unnecessary surgeries, and rarer opioid prescriptions. In 1988, Dr. Aprill brought his radiologic knowledge to bear in a multi-specialty study group with anatomy and pain professor Nikolai Bogduk, MD, PhD; anesthesiologists Richard Derby, MD and Glen Holliday, DO; surgeon Claire Tibiletti, MD; and rheumatologist David Fletcher, MD. Over the next three years, this self-described Needle Jockey Club would meet at various medical meetings and conceived a new medical society: ISIS (the International Spinal Injection Society), which began holding cadaveric workshops and an annual scientific meeting in 1992. As the group grew to embrace other evidence-based minimally invasive interventional treatments beyond injections, the association ultimately came to be known as the Spine Intervention Society."
"Dr. Aprill was intrigued by exploring the potential for how his foundational studies could inform the emerging spinal injection evidence base to lead to a world with less debilitating pain, fewer unnecessary surgeries, and rarer opioid prescriptions. In 1988, Dr. Aprill brought his radiologic knowledge to bear in a multi-specialty study group with anatomy and pain professor Nikolai Bogduk, MD, PhD; anesthesiologists Richard Derby, MD and Glen Holliday, DO; surgeon Claire Tibiletti, MD; and rheumatologist David Fletcher, MD. Over the next three years, this self-described Needle Jockey Club would meet at various medical meetings and conceived a new medical society: ISIS (the International Spinal Injection Society), which began holding cadaveric workshops and an annual scientific meeting in 1992. As the group grew to embrace other evidence-based minimally invasive interventional treatments beyond injections, the association ultimately came to be known as the Spine Intervention Society."
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He was like a magnet at ISIS courses, drawing pain docs to his lectures that he did without notes, and bringing alive the anatomy and clinical medicine, frequently remaining long after the session was over. His humor and intellect combined with his genteel nature and gruff southern accent won many friends for life, accolades, and followers. As the other bookends to Nik and Rick, he served his part to balance the International Spine Injection Society that later transformed its name twice more, and was a permanent board of directors member. Charlie was an anomaly among pain physicians who will be dearly missed.
