C (Cyril) Rollins "Rollo" Hanlon,
MD,
FACS (February 8, 1915 – May 3, 2011) was an
American
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pioneering
cardiac surgeon. Hanlon was born in
Baltimore, Maryland
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. He attended Loyola High School and Loyola College Baltimore, now
Loyola University Maryland. He received his MD from
Johns Hopkins
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where he interned. He did his
residency
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in
Cincinnati. In 1950, he became
Chairman
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of
Surgery
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at
St. Louis University
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.
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 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.
References
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1943 births
2011 deaths
United States Navy Medical Corps officers
American cardiac surgeons