Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr. was the Co-founder, Executive Director, and Secretary of The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for the Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease and its project The Arthritis Trust of America.

Almost 91-years-old when he died in 2015, he dedicated his last thirty-three years to researching and writing for The Arthritis Trust of America, its donors, and its referral doctors. He worked tirelessly to educate everyone about the many alternatives to conventional medicinal drugs used to suppress the symptoms of rheumatoid diseases (arthritis, psoriasis, etc.), drugs that cause cancer and infections (sometimes fatal) for some people who take them.

Graduating from Iowa State Teachers College in 1947 with a major in mathematics (minors in chemistry, physics and psychology), Chapdelaine earned his master’s degree in mathematics from George Peabody College for Teachers in 1948.

His career involved his talents in mathematics, computers, and system analysis. He worked for L. Ron Hubbard at the Hubbard Dianetic^® Institute, for Western Electric, and as a civilian in the U.S. Air Force Air Material Command before returning to teaching mathematics at two universities. He is also the author of several novels and science fiction novellas and short stories.

Chapdelaine met Dr. Jack Blount, who had cured himself of lifelong rheumatoid arthritis after learning of a treatment developed by Professor Roger Wyburn-Mason, MD, PhD in England. Chapdelaine visited Dr. Blount and subsequently stopped his own rheumatoid arthritis after six weeks of treatment using the correct dose of metronidazole (an antiparasitic and antibacterial drug).

In 1982, along with a well-known physician, Dr. Gus Prosch (who had the largest complementary-alternative medicine practice in the southeast US, and whom Dr. Blount likewise cured of arthritis; Dr. Robert Bingham (a pioneer in arthritis orthopedic surgery who helped establish the Sister Kenny Poliomyelitis Hospital in California in 1950); Dr. Paul Pybus of South Africa (friend and student of Wyburn-Mason); and Dr. Blount, Chapdelaine formed a non-profit foundation, The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for the Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease (aka: The Arthritis Trust of America or The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation). Chapdelaine described the foundation as “dedicated to telling folks the various causes of arthritis and how to achieve wellness from these causes,” and then convinced over 300 open-minded physicians and scientists from the US and worldwide to join his foundation as doctors to whom he could consult or refer patients.

The Arthritis Trust of America closed in 2020 and has generously shared their collection of articles with The Foundation for Alternative and Integrative Medicine (FAIM).