Antigone Kostas

Antigone Kostas, M.D. is a Child Psychologiest.

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Antigone Kostas’ Extracurricular Activities

How many people can actually say that they were a disc jockey at any level?  Not many I can assure you.  It is one of those jobs or activities that few of us have the opportunity to do or have the ability to do.  Antigone Kostas received that opportunity and seized it when she took on the role of KTRU disc jockey for Woman’s and World Music during her stay at Rice University.  Spinning tracks was only part of the gig, but having the ability to have her voice heard across campus was a thrill.  It is definitely a thrill that many of us still dream about today.  With her love of music, the arts, and her natural ability to connect with other, Antigone was a perfect fit for the job. While Antigone Kostas was spinning records and voicing her thoughts to the campus, she was also doubling as the co-president for Amnesty International for three years.  Her love for and compassion for her community and for others only made it natural for her to get involved with the human rights group.  Her belief in service to others and her actions has always aligned perfectly.  Her career in Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry can attest to her ongoing service to the betterment of human suffrage.   Antigone would later be involved with University discussion groups as a fellow as well as serve on the Rice University Provost Search Committee and on the Rice University Senior Committee. The extracurricular activities of Antigone Kostas are just an extension of her service and volunteerism within her communities.  In essence, they are one in the same when you boil it down.  You can divide them into categories, but they all end with Antigone being an active leader in her community.

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Antigone Kostas: On a Mission

Antigone Kostas has been on a mission throughout her entire life: giving back to mankind and her community.  She has always had the innate ability to connect with those around her and the will to serve.  Her extensive work experience, volunteer portfolio, and extracurricular activities that she has been involved in have all led her to where she is today: a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellow at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. It is easy to say that you have a mission in life, but it is difficult to show your mission through your acts.  This is exactly what Antigone Kostas has done.  She has taken her passions in life and put them into action.  Her love for arts and music was shown as her stint as a disc jockey for KTRU in Houston, TX on the campus of Rice University.  Her will to be a leader has shown in her involvement in school committees and as co-president of Amnesty International – and her will to give back to the community and to help others is most evident.  The simple fact of what she has chosen to do with her career shows that she is out to help and protect others. Let us not overlook the facts that in the past, Antigone Kostas found her way into roles that created opportunity for her to interact with the surrounding community.  These roles were places for her to develop relations with individuals that she could teach and provide a path towards success.  This is much like the services that Antigone Kostas provides to people today through her role as a psychiatrist.  She is helping, serving, and providing a path to success to others just as she has in the past.

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Antigone Kostas Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

It used to be that psychiatric disorders in children were often overlooked and pushed to the wayside. They were treated almost as if they didn’t exist. Eventually, it was recognized by society that children and adolescents could develop psychiatric disorders as well. Today, it is individuals like Antigone Kostas that are leading the way in this field. Kostas is a cum laude graduate of Rice University and obtained her MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. One of her main concentrations is on child and adolescent psychology.

Antigone Kostas began her journey of helping others before reaching Rice University. She spent time as a crisis hotline volunteer. It was here that she began honing her relationship-building and communication skills. She was able to interact and speak with individuals about issues. She learned to listen and to give subtle advice. Antigone also began to notice that she had the ability and the interest to delve into the human psyche and to get to the root of problems. Kostas would agree that it is extremely important to learn and to have the ability to connect to our children and understand their psyche.

Our children are fragile during their early years and through adolescence. It takes individuals like Antigone Kostas to be able to understand how we can better prepare children for the road ahead. We rely on them to assist us in understanding what is actually going on inside our child’s mind. As we may rationalize events in adult terms, Antigone Kostas and other child and adolescent psychiatrists can rationalize in the manners that our children are. It is important to have this ability to connect and to understand.

Antigone Kostas currently resides in Buffalo, New York where she continues her studies in her attempts to advance this important and very specialized field.

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Antigone Kostas Receives MD from University of Southwestern Medical School

Great individuals continue to pursue greatness. They do not give up and they find ways to continually better themselves and those around them. One way of bettering one’s self is through continued higher education. It is one thing to obtain your bachelor’s degree and move on within the world, but it is completely another when striving for your MD. Antigone Kostas was not about to settle with her bachelor’s degree earned from the prestigious Rice University. She was determined to further her studies at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

It was here that Antigone Kostas would earn her MD. She would later credit the University of Southwestern Texas with catapulting her career within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Adult Psychiatry. Obtaining her MD was a courageous choice that many people are too scared to attempt. But great people do great things. Antigone determined, that, in order to reach the level of success that she needed to be able to provide the services to her community that she had hoped for; she needed to continue her education. She believes that it is this vision and this pursuit of knowledge that betters our community. It is up to us as individuals to make the hard choices in life. If we wish to reach our goals in life then we must often make these decisions to continue challenging ourselves and push the envelope. Psychiatry is a field where knowledge becomes your tool. You need to learn in order to act. Each patient is different, each story is different, and it is ever-changing. It is why those who choose the field, those like Antigone Kostas, understand the grave importance of continued higher education. The dedication, time, and effort put forth by her during her time at the University of Texas Southwestern shows through her practice.