Slobodan Apostolski, neuropsychiatrist - New Life wakening

(Slobodan Apostolski)

He speaksabout his career as of a course of event. Without outlining his greatcontribution in the world medicine, he thinks everything is a consequence ofwork. A professor, a doctor, world-famous scientist, former dean of the Facultyof Medicine, Slobodan Apostolski, was born in Belgrade. He grew up at theworkers’ settlement, learnt Serbian in the street, he finished grammar schoolas the best student, he graduated medicine as the student of the generation, andhe trained in a number of neurological centers in the world. He is known forthe neuro-immunology field to scientific public.

(DraganaLavrnic and Vidosava Rakocevic, the closest associates and successors)

He enrolledthe Tenth Belgrade grammar school at Topcidersko brdo. He graduated at theFaculty of Medicine as the student of generation.

Young andeducated people then, Apostolski says, had a different treatment.

Scientificcontribution

(Prof. dr.Jelena Gospavic, prof. Levic and a group of doctors in front of theNeurological clinic)

He continuedhis career at the Neuropsychiatric hospital in Belgrade. He dealt withimmunology in neurology under mentorship of professor Jelena Gospavic.

- My bigscientific contribution is research of myasthenia gravis. With my work in thefield of immunopathology of myasthenia gravis, I contributed to decrease thedeath rate from 30% to only 3%.

When itcomes to treatment of this desease, Apostolski is one of the best doctors inthe world.

It isimportant to mention, our collocutor says, that he introduced device which “cleansblood”, in treatment of autoimmune neurological diseases.

He is alsoproud of the application of intra-vein immunoglobulins. It is very expensivetherapy byt efficient in the most difficult, paralytic immunological diseases.

Withclinical researches, he developed diagnostic approach to neuro-muscle diseasesand implemented a series of new therapy procedures. He is a founder of a unitfor immunotherapy and therapy change of plasma. He participated at ultra-structuralresearches of timus with patients suffering myasthenia gravis and contributedto clarification of the role of timus as an explanation of the effect of timectomia.

He was amongthe first in the world to participate in immunological researches of diseaseswit motor neuron and participated in discovery of sub entity of this disease. Lately,he has been specifically dealing with autoimmune neuropathies.

(In the company of the world’s biggest researcherin the field of myasthenia gravis, prof. dr. John Newsom Davis, from the OxfordUniversity)

Inneuropathology of AIDS, he showed that gp120 glycoprotein HIV-1 bonds to neuroncells and explained with complement neuron damage after bonding of virus toneuron membrane receptors.

In thenineties, he was a guest professor at the Columbia University in New York andthen he decided to return to Serbia.

Crossroads

(In the company of Erich Hoffman, the most famous American researcher of genetics of muscle diseases)

- When we came for a vacation in Serbia, my son and daughter told me they do not want to go back to “live with artificial people”. I returned to America to finish some commitments. Later, I was a dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, head of department for neurology, full-time professor, the head at the Institute for neurology, etc.

However, he opted for new life.

He works in a practice with his wife with whom he has a ten-year old daughter from the first marriage. He has a daughter who is a neuro-radiologist at the ER and a son who is a successful designer.

Wakening

(Kwang Woo Lee and prof. dr Apostolski) –

Just like his role model, Oliver Sax, who is an excellent expert and has a practice as well as I do, I am writing a book. I write a page or two every day.

- I am writing a book about neurology through experience of patients, showing a stream of unusual diseases and circumstances which can unusually determine the outcome and all that through the prism of individual cases.

Prof. Apostolski likes painting since his school days and in free time he likes to draw. Therefore, his friends give them blocks and colors.

In his practice, he has a drawing signed by his best man, Mihailo Djoković Tikala.

- The drawing was made after a three-week coma who, luckily, a great painter won with the strength of his will and a small help of us-doctors.

Marija Kambic