Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Allen Gregg, M.D.

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l)r. Charles A. Papacostas-, Professor of Pharmacology, is married to Catherine P.mto .upoulos and has four children: Arthur, 24. doctoral candidate in statistical psychology at Temple University; Frank, 22, freshman medical student at Temple; Klaine, 19. junior in College of Liberal Arts. Temple; and James, 15. 10th grader at Cheltenham High School. I Its wife. Catherine, is presenth teaching in the Philadelphia school system. Fie received his doctorate in physiology-pharmacology at Boston University, School of Medicine in 1956. He lias taught in the Department of Pharmacology at Temple University Medical School for eighteen years and received promotion to full professor in 1966. He has always been vitally interested in teaching and considers thits his top priority as a medical school staff member. He received the SAM A award for excellence in teaching in 1972. He has served and continues to serve on numerous committees, the most important pf which, he feels, are the departmental committee (of which he is chairman) concerned with the Sophomore Medical Course in Pharmacology, and the Medical School Admissions Committee. He is a past president of the Temple University Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi and of the Physiological Society of Philadelphia. His research activity over the years has centered in the cardiovascular effects of histamine liberators, adrenal steroids, and autonomic chugs. He has a creditable list of publications and is currently involved with the preparation of a programmed text in pharmacology for medical students. He is presently a member of the following national societies: American Society for Pharmacology' and Experimental Therapeutics, American Heart Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also served as chairman of scientific sessions at the annual meetings of the Federated Societies for Experimental Biology and Medicine and of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Dr. Papacostas is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation at Elkins Park. As for outside interests, he enjoys swimming and fishing with his family in the waters of Cape Cod during summer vacations, music (Greek, as well as classical and semi-classical) and dancing. When more active a few years ago, he iiked playing tennis and badminton. He was also active as a leader in Cub Scout and Boy Scout activities.

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Sir Luke Fildes The Doctor, 1891 The popularity of the picture is due to the strong appeal that it makes to the higher and finer qualities of mankind and the response that it evokes in even- bosom. The heart-broken mother and the stern-faced, vigilant father half-hidden in the shadows of the background, the striken child on its lonely pallet, and the kindly, watchful physician bent over the little sufferer—all these have their counterpart in the experience of everyone who has encountered sickness and death. There is a most careful attention to detail, loo often lacking, in our modern impressionistic painting. The homely furnishings of the room, almost lost in the shadow, are nevertheless, clearly depicted, and are without exception in keeping with the spirit of the picture. Even the bird is silent in his cage, as if he, too, were imbued with the sense of waiting and dread. It will often be our lot to enter upon and be the central figure in such a scene as this. May the character which is so plainly written upon the face of “THE DOCTOR” be ours. May we embrace every opportunity to give aid to the suffering and comfort to those in sorrow . And may our human sympathy and medical skill always go hand in hand in the warfare against disease and death. H irr E. Bacon Skull 1925