G.&M. Vergottis Foundation: Honoring the memory of Fotis Pavlatos with a symbolic donation to "Sotir" orphanage.

The George & Mary Vergottis Foundation bids farewell to Fotis Pavlatos, Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Athens, and honors his memory with a symbolic donation to the Kefalonian Orphanage "O Sotir". The Foundation's press release follows.

 

In Memory of

FOTIS PAVLATO

Professor of Endocrinology, University of Athens

 

Professor Fotis Pavlatos recently passed away, having lived a full life. A high-level scientist, a charismatic teacher devoted to his work, and a doctor with exemplary responsibility and a particularly humane demeanor.

 

He spent his entire career at the University of Athens, at Laiko Hospital, except for the years of his postgraduate training in America. At a young age, in America, he devised a method of studying the adrenal glands that has been featured in books worldwide under his name for 55 years. The European Society of Endocrinology, at one of its conferences, awarded him a special prize for completing 50 years of study and research contribution.

 

As a teacher, he remained in the minds of his thousands of students as an example.

 

In the social sphere, he left his mark as president of the Greek Medical Society for nuclear and biochemical threats. It was then that the book "Grigoris Lambrakis, the Pioneering Pacifist Doctor" was published with his prologue.

 

Those who knew him, his colleagues, his students, and his patients, mention his name with appreciation and respect. And this is not only an honor to his memory but an example for the generations of today and tomorrow in our society.

 

The George & Mary Vergottis Foundation honored Fotis Pavlatos in February 2016 for his timeless contribution to Medicine, Research, and Teaching, organizing an event in his honor at the "Alkis Argyriadis" Auditorium of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA). In the context of the same event, the Foundation also awarded the top three successful candidates from each field from the Prefecture of Kefalonia in the Panhellenic Examinations of 2015, with the late Pavlatos presenting the awards to the distinguished students and addressing them with their first university speech-lesson.

 

Today, following a unanimous decision of the Foundation's Board of Directors, his memory is honored with a symbolic donation to the Kefalonian Orphanage "O Sotir". The choice of the donation recipient was deemed absolutely fitting with the generosity and social contribution that characterized the deceased.

 

For the Board of Directors of the Foundation

Dionysis K. Voros

Vice President of the Board - Surgeon

Student of Fotis Pavlatos

 

Source: Press Release - George & Mary Vergottis Foundation.