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Living History of Physiology
Charles Rawlinson Park
 Charles
Rawlinson Park, better known as Rollo by his many friends and
associates, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 2, 1916. His father,
Edwards A. Park, was on the staff of Johns Hopkins Medical School and later
became Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics there. His mother introduced
and supervised nursery schools in Baltimore and subsequently throughout
Baltimore and Delaware. Rollo graduated A.B. from Harvard College in
1937 and M.D. in 1941 from Johns Hopkins, where he was elected to Alpha
Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa. He interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital and
then was appointed Resident and Chief Resident in - Medicine at Peter Bent
Brigham Hospital in Boston. During his student days at Johns Hopkins, he
made an auspicious entry in the world of investigative medicine by
reporting, in collaboration with W. Barry Wood, Jr., that p-aminobenzoic
acid was an essential factor for bacterial growth.
He
entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1944 and was stationed at Fort Knox,
Kentucky until 1947. During this period, he carried out studies of thermal
regulation during fever and heat acclimatization in man. Upon his release
from the Army, Rollo worked as a Postdoctoral Welch Fellow and later as an
Assistant Professor of, Medicine in the laboratory of Carl and Gerty Cori in
the Department of Biochemistry, Washington University in St. Louis. This
laboratory was a "Mecca" for biochemical investigators, and during this
period Rollo rubbed shoulders with many young scientists who like him, would
make their mark in the world of biochemical research. Four of these, Earl
Sutherland, Sidney Colowick, Victor Najjar and Janey Park subsequently
became faculty members at Vanderbilt. Rollo's work in collaboration with
other members of the Cori laboratory resulted in the findings that growth
hormone and diabetic serum exerted anti-insulin effects on glucose uptake in
muscle. MORE>>>>
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