CURRICULUM VITAE CHARLES M. SLACK, M.D. EDUCATION Undergraduate Work: Medical School: Lewis University, Lockport, Illinois B.A. June 1968, Magna Cum Laude College of Medicine University Of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois M.D. 1968-1972 Internship: Rush - Presbyterian St. Luke s Medical Center July 1972- July 1973 Postgraduate Training: Resident, General Surgery Rush Presbyterian St. Luke s Medical Center July 1973 July 1974 Resident, Orthopaedic Surgery Michael Reese Hospital Chicago, Illinois July 1974 July 1977 Chief Resident, Orthopaedic Surgery Michael Reese Hospital July 1976 July 1977 Specialty training in hand injuries Cook County Hospital Hand Surgery Service including burns, trauma, microvascular technique and replantation of digits March 1977 July 1977 1
Fellowship: Resident Education and Teaching: Spinal Surgery Fellowship including care of spinal trauma, congenital and developmental spinal disorders Rush Presbyterian St. Luke s Medical Center July 1977- July 1978 Lectures delivered yearly on Spine Trauma, Scoliosis, Spinal Stenosis and Spondylolisthesis 1979 to 2002 Introduction to medicine for premed students at Michael Reese Hospital summer of 1987/1988 Scoliosis Clinic at Michael Reese Hospital and Shriner s Hospital for Children 1979 to 2002 Miscellaneous: Military Service: Will F. Lyon Award from Department of General Surgery, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke s Medical Center, 1973 Eligible but deferred to the voluntary draft Medical Licensure: Illinois # 36-48353 June 1973 Certification: Academic Appointments: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery September 1979 Rush Medical College, Instructor July 1972 July 1974 and July 1977- July 1978 University of Chicago, Clinical Instructor January 1979 1989 Northwestern University Medical School Clinical Instructor January 1990- July 2000 Hospital Appointments: Rush Presbyterian St. Luke s Medical Center Adjunct Attending, January 1978 July 1978 Shriner s Hospital for Children Chicago, Illinois January 1978 July 1978 University of Illinois Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 2
Attending, January 1978 July 1978 Michael Reese Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Attending, July 1979 to September, 2008 (hospital closed) Mercy Hospital and Medical Center Chicago, Illinois Attending, September 1997 to the present St. Francis Hospital, Courtesy Staff January 1990-1993, Attending, 1994 to the present Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Attending September 1994 to the present Swedish Covenant Hospital, Attending, 2000 to the present St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center, Attending, 1999 to the present Louis Weiss Hospital and Medical Center, Attending, 2002 to the present Societies: Chicago Medical Society Illinois State Medical Society American Medical Association Illinois Orthopaedic Society American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons DeWald Spine Society Society of Intradiscal Therapy North American Spine Society Conferences: Postgraduate courses in Prosthetics and Orthotics, Northwestern University Medical Center Lower Extremity Prosthetics, October 1974 Lower Extremity and Spinal Orthotics, October 1975 3
Upper Extremity Prosthetics and Orthotics October 1976 Postgraduate course in Pediatric Orthopaedics International Seminar Children s Memorial Hospital June 1, 1976- June 6, 1976 Postgraduate course in Musculoskeletal Pathology, two week course, University of Florida, Dr. Enneking Gainesville, Florida, May 1977 Postgraduate Instructional Course Lectures in General Orthopaedics, Seminars of The Hip Society and Hand Society at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Meeting Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2-8, 1977 Instructional Course Lectures in General Orthopaedics and Spinal Deformities American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Dallas, Texas, February 23-28, 1978 The Spine presented by University of Florida Miami, Florida, March 20-22, 1978 Pediatric International Seminar May 26 June 3, 1978 Scoliosis Research Society Meeting Boston Massachusetts, September 13-15, 1978 Surgery of the Spine: Indications and Techniques, University of Florida April 5-7, 1979 Forth Clinical Radiologic and Pathologic Musculoskeletal Seminar, University of Chicago, August 6-10, 1979 Maine Orthopaedic Review Course, Dr. Stinchfield, July 15-28, 1979 Scoliosis Research Society Meeting Seattle, Washington, September 11-14, 1979 4
Instructional Course Lectures in Spinal Disorders at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting, Atlanta, Georgia February 7-12, 1980 Scoliosis Research Society Meeting Chicago, Illinois, September 1980 Spinal Cord Injuries, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons course, Miami, Florida December 1980 Scoliosis Research Society Meeting Montreal, Canada, September 15-18, 1981 Disorders of the Spine Recent Advances Snowmass, Colorado, March 1981 Operative Arthroscopy, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons course, Palm Beach, Florida, June 1981 CT of the Lumbar Spine, San Francisco California May 1982 Common Afflictions of the Adult Lumbar Spine Seattle, Washington, May 1982 Scoliosis Study Group, Springfield, Illinois 1982 Scoliosis Research Society Meeting Denver, Colorado, September 1982 Orthotics for Spinal Deformities, Chicago, Illinois, October 1982 Arthroscopic Surgery, Boca Raton, Florida December 1982 Recent Advances in Scoliosis, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Long Beach, California, March 1983 Analysis of Spine Lesions, University of Kentucky, May 1983 Conference on Spine Deformities, University 5
of Miami, Miami, Florida, November 1983 Recent Advances in Spine Surgery, University of Washington, Maui, Hawaii, March 1984 Scoliosis Research Society, Orlando, Florida September 1984 The Spine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, November 1984 Overview of Orthopaedics, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, Acapulco, Mexico 1985 Scoliosis Conference, Ronald DeWald Spine Society, Chicago, Illinois May 1985 Spine Study Group, University of Miami, Miami, Florida November 1985 Innovative/ Controversial Strategies in Rehabilitation, Miami, Florida, December 1985 Occupational Low Back Pain, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois December 1985 Frontiers in Low Back Pain, Seventh AOA International Symposium, Chicago, Illinois August 1986 Scoliosis Research Society Meeting Hamilton, Bermuda Sixth Annual Kenton D. Lesterman Spine Symposium, Louisville, Kentucky November 1986 Fifty-fourth Annual American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 1987 Third Annual Chemonucleolysis Resource Center Network Meeting, Chicago, Illinois March 1987 Seventy-Fifth Annual Clinical Orthopaedic Society Meeting, Chicago, Illinois October 1987 The Spine: Current Concepts, Sponsored by Vanderbilt University, Maui, Hawaii May 1988 6
MRI Symposium, Twenty- Sixth Annual Meeting American Society of Neuroradiology Chicago Illinois May 1988 DeWald Spine Society Meeting, Guest Professor Dr. J. DuBousset, Chicago, Illinois May 1988 Automated Percutaneous Diskectomy Workshop Chicago, Illinois July 1988 Scoliosis Research Society Meeting Baltimore, Maryland September 1988 Pedicle Fixation of the Lumbar Spine Workshop sponsored by SRS and NASS, September 1988 Eighth Annual Kenton D. Lesterman Spine Symposium, Louisville, Kentucky October 1988 Fifty-sixth Annual American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Meeting Las Vegas, Nevada February 1989 Spine Update Current Concepts, Dr. Sam Wiesel, Washington D.C. October 1989 Fifty seventh Annual American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana February 1990 Cotrel Dubousset Instrumentation Course Dr. Harry Shuffelbarger, Miami Children s Hospital March 1990 DeWald Spine Society Meeting New York, New York May 1990 Techniques in Spinal Fixation, San Antonio, Texas April 1991 Treatment of Surgical Spine Disease St. Louis, Missouri April 10-13 1991 Current Methodology of Spinal Instrumentation Degenerative and Deformity Applications, Institute for Medical Studies, Chicago, Illinois August 15 1992 The Spine, Current Concepts of Diagnosis and 7
Treatment, Naples, Florida April 1993 Lumbar Spinal Fusion, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons course, Chicago, Illinois April 1993 Complex Revision, Quaternary Spine Surgery or Spine Surgery No One Wants To Do, Rush- Presbyterian St. Luke s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois June 18, 1994 Anterior Surgery of the Spine, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois November 3 5, 1994 Pathophysiology and Treatment of the Unstable Lumbar Motion Segment Mass, Summer CME Conference August 3-5, 1995 Contemporary Issues in Advanced Techniques of the Spine sponsored by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Rosemont, Illinois November 17-19, 1995 Tenth Annual American Spine Society Meeting, Washington D.C. October 18-21, 1995 Twelfth Annual North American Spine Society Meeting New York, New York October 22 25, 1997 (23 cat. 1 CME credit hours.) North American Spine Society 13 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California October 28 th 31 st, 1998 (25.65 category 1, credit hours) Intradiscal Electrothermal Therpy Workshop at Stanford University Medical Center, 5/15/1999 Lumbar Disc Puncture Workshop, Sanford University Medical Center 5-16-1999 (Cat. 1 3.5 CME) 8
Practical Strategies in Spine Surgery, Current Applications and Techniques, AAOS Orthopaedic Learning Center, Rosemont, Illinois August 6-8, 1999 Coding and Compliance Conference Update, 1999, Chicago, Illinois October 19-20, 1999 North American Spine Society 14 th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois 10-20 / 10-23, 1999 (34.5 CME hours) The Spine: Current concepts and treatment, Spine Study Group, 12 th Symposium February 2-6, 2000, Naples Florida (20.5 Cat. 1 credit hrs) North American Spine Society, Coding Update 2001. October 24, 25, 2000New Orleans, Louisiana (13 CME Cat. 1) North American Spine Society 15 th Annual Meeting, October 25-28, 2000. New Orleans Louisiana (21.75 CME Cat. 1) American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 68 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California 2/28 3/4/01 (28 CME Cat. 1) Specialty Day Meeting of AAOS Federation of Spine Associations, San Francisco, California 3/3/01 (7.5 CME Cat. 1) North American Spine Society, coding update 2002: Essentials and Controversies of Operative and non- Operative Spine Care Coding. October 30-31, Seattle Washington (CME 14.5 Cat. 1) North American Spine Society, 16 th Annual Meeting. November 1-3 2001 Seattle Washington (CME 21.5 Cat. 1) American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 68 th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California February 28 th March 4 th, 2001 (28 CME Cat. 1) Specialty Day Meeting of AAOS Federation of Spine Associations. San Francisco, California March 3, 2001 (7.5 CME Cat. 1) 9
University of Southern Florida Clinical Update: Botulinium Toxin Type A in the Treatment of Back Pain and Muscle Spasm September 14, 2002 Chicago, Illinois (5 CME Credits) North American Spine Society 17 th Annual Meeting October 29- November 2, 2002 Montreal, Canada (30.25 CME Credits) Coding Update, 2003: Essentials and Controversies of Operative and Non Operative Case Coding October 28,29, 2002 Montreal, Canada (16.5 CME Credits) World Spine II: The Second Interdisciplinary Congress on Spine Care. Aug 10-13 2003 Chicago, Illinois (4 CME Credits) World Spine II: Lumbar Degenerative Disease Workshop. August 10, 2003 Chicago, Illinois (4 CME Credits) World Spine II: Contemporary Vertebral Augmentation for Treatment of Spine Fractures August 10, 2003, Chicago, Illinois (4 CME Credits) North American Spine Society 18 th Annual Meeting. San Diego, California, October 21 25 2003 (31 CME Credits) North American Spine Society Workshop: Spinal Injections II: Sacroiliac Joint Intra- Articular Zygapophysial Joint and Medical Branch Injection. Principlesand Techniques. October 21, 2003, San Diego, California (4 CME Credits) North American Spine Society Workshop: Interbody Technologies: PLIF October 21, 2003 San Diego, California (3.75 CME Credits) North American Spine Society Workshop: Surgical Approach and Techniques for the Lumbar Spine: A Hands on course. March 19, 20, 2004 Chicago Illinois (17 CME Credits) North American Spine Society: 19 th Annual Meeting Pre Meeting Course: What s New in Spine Surgery 10
Procedures October 26, 2004 Chicago, Illinois (8.25 Cat 1 CME Credits) North American Spine Society: 19 th Annual Meeting, Chicago Illinois October 27-30, 2004 (31.75 Cat 1 CME Credits) Illinois State Medical Society Symposium Improving Communication to Rescue Your Malpractice Risk December 2, 2004, Joliet, Illinois (3.5 Cat 1 CME Credits) North American Spine Society 20 th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia Pennsylvania September 27- October 1, 2004 (28.25 Cat. 1 CME Credits) 20 th Annual North American Spine Society Meeting, Philadelphia Pennsylvania September 27- October 1, 2005 (28.25 Cat. 1 CME Credits) Online Course: Spinal Injury: Medical Error and Risk Reduction December, 2005. (2 Cat. 1 CME Credits) X-Stop Interspinous Process Decompression System Surgical Training Conference AAOS Orthopaedic Learning Center, Rosemont Illinois February 8 th, 2006 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2006 Annual Meeting, Chicago Illinois (31 Cat. 1 CME Credits) Federation of Spine Associates, 2006 Specialty Day Program of AAOS March 25, 2006 (8.5 Cat. 1 CME Credits) North American Spine Society 21 st Annual Meeting September 26-30, 2006 Seattle, Washington (27.75 Cat. 1 CME Credits) Presentations: Series of Lectures given as Chief Orthopaedic Resident to the Michael Reese Hospital Emergency Room Staff Regarding initial evaluation and treatment of Orthopaedic injuries 11
Co Coordinator of three week fracture course, 1976, Presented at Michael Reese Hospital for Orthopaedic Residents Lecturer at Second Annual Fracture Course, 1977 at Michael Reese Hospital on Fracture treatment in the Children and the Elderly As a Senior Orthopaedic Resident presented a lecture on The Language of Fracture, Chicago Medical School and University of Chicago medical students rotating on the Orthopaedic service at Michael Reese Hospital Case presentations given at Musculoskeletal Trauma Meeting of the Chicago Committee on Trauma, spring and fall meeting, 1976 Lecturer at EMT, a certification refresher course for paramedics, Spinal Cord Trauma October 1977 Lecture given to Michael Reese Orthopaedic residents Scoliosis Classification and Treatment October 1977 Scoliosis School Screening program given at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke s instructor spring 1978 Spinal Cord Trauma refresher recertification of EMT sponsored by Chicago Committee on Trauma October 1978 Lecture Head and Spine Injuries in Sports At the University of Chicago Seminar on Athletic Injuries and Legal Aspects of Collegiate Athletic Programs, May 25, 1979 Conservative Treatment of Scoliosis Lecture delivered and Clinical Instructor, School Screening of Scoliosis Seminar at Rush- Presbyterian St. Luke s Chicago, Illinois October 20, 1979 School Screening Seminar (6 hour conference) given at Michael Reese Hospital as a part of Medical Research Week, September 1979 Ongoing lecture series on topic of spinal deformities for Orthopaedic residents and medical students at Michael Reese Hospital1979 to Present 12
Case Presentation at Chicago Committee on Trauma Meeting as part of postgraduate course on fractures and other trauma of the American College of Surgeons, April 10, 1980 Instructor, postgraduate course on Intradiscal therapy, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Association of Neurological Surgeons 1983 Instructor American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons course on Chemonucleolysis, Chicago, Illinois 1984 Cervical and Dorsal Spine Injuries in Sports Medicine and Workers compensation, 45 th Annual Midwest Clinical Conference, Chicago Medical Society 1989 Illinois State Medical Society, Midwest Clinical Conference, Dorsal and Lumbar Spine Injuries in the Workplace February 25, 1989 Michael Reese Hospital, Premier Years Program, Staying Active with Low Back Pain August 29, 1990 St. Francis Hospital Professional Lecture Series, Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Diagnosis and Treatment, May 1993 St. Francis Hospital Professional Lecture Series, Sports and the Lower Back April 1994 Primary Care Update: Orthopaedics for the Family Practitioner, Examination of the Back and Recognition of Common Spinal Afflictions August 6, 1994 Presentation to Allied Rehabilitation Health Association, Low Back Pain and the Injured Worker, Naperville Illinois September 23, 1994 Michael Reese Hospital, Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds Presentation: Scoliosis and Other 13
Spinal Afflictions for the Pediatrician February 10, 1995 St. Francis Hospital Professional Lecture Series, Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Spinal Afflictions January 1995 Pediatric Grand Rounds Presentation to University of Illinois pediatric staff at Michael Reese Hospital Scoliosis and Other Common Spinal Conditions September 20, 1996 Lecture to Rush Illinois Masonic Family Practice Residents Recognition and Treatment of Common Spinal Afflictions January 14, 1997 Lecture Scoliosis in Marfan s Syndrome, at meeting of the Northern Illinois Branch of the National Marfan Foundation at Michael Reese Hospital February 21, 1998 Lecture Evaluation Principles for Lower Back Disorders at a meeting of Risk Managers for Effective Injury Management presented by CNA Insurance, April 23, 1998 Lecture, Low Back Pain at the General Medicine Primary care lecture Series, Department of Medicine, Michael Reese Hospital, November 11, 1998 Case Management Seminar at Clybourn Physical Therapy Center Lecture: Lumbar Spine: Differential Diagnosis. May 21, 2002 Chicago, Illinois Stay Active While Coping with Low Back Pain Community Lecture Series at Resurrection St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago Illinois May 13, 2004 Literature review of Double Outlet Right Ventricle Literature review ventral septal defect, unpublished research for Dr. Maurice Lev of Congenital Heart Disease Institute of Hockton Institute, Cook County Hospital, June-September 1969, June-September 1970 Research (abstract) Then Problem of Kyphosis in Operated Idiopathic Scoliosis, a review of 318 Consecutive cases submitted to AAOS spring 1978 14
Clinical investigator, Chymopapain Project of Smith Laboratories. A Study of Chymopapain in patients with Herniated Lumbar Discs. Beginning October 1981 Investigator, clinical study of electrospinal orthosis system 1983-1984 Comprehensive Therapy Vol. 6 No. 9 September 1980 pp68-74 The Problem of Thoracic Hyperkyphosis in Operated Idiopathic Scoliosis submitted to Scoliosis Research Society, spring 1980 The Long Term Follow-Up of Surgical Treatment of Spinal Deformity in Osteogenesis Imperfecta paper delivered at Scoliosis Research Society, Chicago, Illinois September 1980 The Usefulness of Somatosensory Evoked Responses for the Evaluation of Low Back Pain, S. Perlik, M. Fisher, D. Patel, C. Slack, Arc Neurol Vol. 43 September 1986 pp. 907-913 Surgical Stabilization and Scoliosis and Osteogenesis Imperfecta, D. Trotter, C. Slack, K. Hammerberg, E. Miller, 1983 paper delivered at Scoliosis Research Society New Orleans, LA Chymodiactin in patients with Herniated Lumbar Invertebral Disc(s) an open label multicenter study. (Contributor) Spine Vol. 10 No. 3 1985 pp.242-249 Thoracic Paraplegia after lumbar Spinal Surgery, R.T. Tucker, C.M. Slack, Q. Regan, Journal of Spinal disorders Vol. 8 No. 3 1995 pp.195-200 Other Activites: Campaign Chairman for Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation 1990, 1991, 1992. 15