Constantine’s personal curriculum vitae — two typed pages, prepared for academic and consultative use in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The CV is the most comprehensive single-document summary of his medical career and the source of several previously undocumented facts about his education and academic record.
Page 1 — Education, military service, hospital appointments
Address at time of writing: 27 West 96th Street, Apt. 8D, NYC 10025 · Telephone (212) 663-8317
Education:
- Cornell University, B.A. 1937 — Phi Beta Kappa ★
- University of Rome, M.D. 1941 — see Roma medical diploma, transcript
- Rotating internship: Flower & Fifth Avenue Hospital + Fordham Hospital, 1941-43
- Residency: VA Hospital Kingsbridge, Bronx, 1946-48
- Residency: NY Orthopedic Hospital — Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1948-49
Military service:
- Captain, Medical Corps, US Army, 1943-46 (304th Station Hospital, Patton’s Third Army)
- See Presidential commission, Carlisle Barracks cert, Separation record, Fort Dix discharge cert
Hospital appointments:
- Assistant Attending in Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1949-51
- Chief, Orthopedic Surgery, First Army Headquarters Hospital, Fort Jay, NY, 1949-51 ★
- Consultant in Orthopedic Surgery, VA Hospital, Manhattan, 1954-61
- Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, NY State Rehabilitation Hospital, Haverstraw, 1951-66
- Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, NYU, 1953-67
- Current at time of CV: Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery, NYU + Associate Attending Surgeon, Bellevue Hospital + Associate Attending, University Hospital, NYU + Faculty, Course in Orthotics, NYU
Page 2 — Memberships, publications, sub-specialty focus
Professional memberships:
- New York County Medical Society · NY State Medical Society · American Medical Association
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- New York Academy of Sciences
Fellowships:
- Fellow, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
- Fellow, International College of Surgeons
- Fellow, Pan-American Medical Association
Publications — nine listed:
- Discoid Menisci — Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) 1950
- Congenital Elevation of the Scapula (Sprengel’s Deformity) — JBJS 1952
- London Medical Press, August 5, 1953 ★
- Chapter 24 in Sir Cecil Wakely’s Modern Treatment Yearbook, 1954 ★
- Bone Changes in Children with Spinal Cord Lesions — NY State Journal of Medicine 1954
- Thumb Transplantation — NY State Journal of Medicine 1956
- Arthrogryposis Rehabilitation — Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, August 1961, with Chester A. Swinyard ★
- Para-Articular Ossification of Elbows — JBJS, September 1961 ★
- Congenital Elevation of the Scapula — Clinical Orthopedics #20, 1961
Sub-specialty interest: ★ Sprengel’s deformity (congenital elevation of the scapula) confirmed as Constantine’s signature clinical research focus — three primary papers + one Wakely Yearbook chapter on this single condition across 1952–1961.
What the CV adds to the family record
The CV established several facts not present elsewhere in the archive:
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Cornell BA 1937, Phi Beta Kappa — Constantine’s undergraduate degree had not previously been documented. He attended Cornell from approximately 1933 to 1937 (ages 17-21), graduating Phi Beta Kappa, before transferring to Italy for medical school. This closes the 1924-1937 educational gap between his SS Themistocles arrival at age 7 and his Perugia foreigners’-card enrollment at age 21.
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Chief, Orthopedic Surgery, First Army HQ Hospital, Fort Jay (1949-51) — a previously undocumented military reserve appointment. Fort Jay is on Governors Island in New York Harbor; the First Army HQ Hospital served the New York Military District. Constantine’s 1949-51 chief-of-orthopedics role there meant he was operating in dual civilian + military capacities during his Columbia residency years.
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The Wakely Yearbook chapter (1954) — Constantine published a chapter in Sir Cecil Wakely’s Modern Treatment Yearbook, a British surgical reference annual. Wakely was a former President of the Royal College of Surgeons and the most prominent British surgical figure of mid-century; placement in his yearbook was a significant international recognition for an American orthopedic specialist.
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Nine publications, four not PubMed-indexed — the Wakely chapter, the London Medical Press contribution, the Arch Phys Med Rehab arthrogryposis paper, and the September 1961 JBJS ossification paper are all absent from the modern PubMed corpus. The CV is the only family-archive document that captures Constantine’s complete publication list.
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The 27 West 96th Street, Apt 8D address — his late-life Manhattan residence on the Upper West Side near Central Park, between the 1950s Cambreleng Bronx years and the 1970s-80 Santo Domingo Arzobispo Merino final residence.
Dating the CV
The CV does not carry an explicit date but is internally datable. The references to “Inst Phys Med & Rehab NYU 1953-67” as a completed appointment suggest a post-1967 preparation date; the absence of any 1970s publication updates suggests the CV was written shortly after the 1967 closure of his NYU IPMR appointment, circa 1968-1972. The phone number prefix “212” — without the borough-specific 663 exchange that came in with the late-1960s NYC numbering reorganization — also fits an early-1970s date.
Provenance
Preserved in Constantine’s personal papers and surfaced in the 2010 Peter-Jeannopoulos scan (catalog items 0005 + 0006). The CV would have been Constantine’s standard professional-resume document — used for consultant appointments, hospital-affiliation paperwork, lecture-invitation responses, and the routine academic CV traffic of a mid-career NYU faculty orthopedic surgeon.