C (Cyril) Rollins "Rollo" Hanlon, MD, FACS (February 8, 1915 – May 3, 2011)[1] was an American pioneering cardiac surgeon. 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 where he interned. He did his residency in Cincinnati. 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.