C. Rollins Hanlon
C (Cyril) Rollins "Rollo" Hanlon, MD, FACS (February 8, 1915 – May 3, 2011)[1] was an American pioneering cardiac surgeon.
Early life and education
[edit]Hanlon was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Loyola High School and Loyola College Baltimore, now Loyola University Maryland.[2] He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University where he interned. He did his residency in Cincinnati.
Career
[edit]In 1950, he became Chairman of Surgery at St. Louis University. In 1956, while at St. Louis University Hanlon led a 12-person team in performing the first open heart surgery in the state of Missouri[3] or the lower Midwest region of the United States.
He served in the U.S. Navy in the China-Burma-India Theater and aboard the hospital ship Repose. He died after a long battle with lymphoma.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "C Rollins Hanlon". tributes.com. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ^ "C. Rollins Hanlon, MD, FACS, remembered" (PDF). www.facs.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ^ Loren Humphrey (2000). Quinine and Quarantine: Missouri Medicine through the Years. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. pp. 104, 105. 0-8262-1269-7.
- ^ "C. Rollins Hanlon, M.D., 1915-2011". St. Louis University. Archived from the original on 2015-02-01. Retrieved 2012-01-22.