Constantine Petros Karakousis

February 27, 1939 — March 31, 2020

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Constantine P. Karakousis passed away on March 31, 2020. He was born on February 27, 1939 in Galatista, Greece and grew up in Kalamata.

After completing medical school at the University of Athens, he immigrated to the US to pursue residency training in Boston and Syracuse. He completed a fellowship in surgical oncology at Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY, where he settled down with his family in 1973. He worked for many years at Roswell Park, Millard Fillmore, and Buffalo General hospitals, and was Professor of Surgery at the University of Buffalo. Beloved among patients and trainees alike, he was known for his compassion and his willingness to operate in seemingly futile cases. Many of these patients are still alive today, decades after they were given a prognosis of only months to live. He wrote hundreds of scientific articles and several authoritative textbooks and atlases on the surgical management of soft-tissue sarcomas and melanomas, and he developed several innovative limb-sparing surgical procedures.

However, for those who knew him best, perhaps he will be remembered most for his humanism and his love of philosophy and literature. He wrote a collection of essays/poems, “Poems of the Mind”, detailing his thoughts on logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science. He is survived by his loving wife, Eleni (Nitsa); his two sons, Petros and Giorgos; daughter-in laws, Kathleen and Robin; and grandchildren, Constantinos (Costi), Marcos, Maria, Andreas, and Constantino (Tino).

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