Donato D. LaRossa (1941 - 2014) was a

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and Professor Emeritus of

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at the

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Career

LaRossa was born in

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in 1941. He received his A.B. from

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in 1963 and his M.D. from

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in 1967. LaRossa served in the

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for two years as the Assistant Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the

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in Denver, Colorado where he was promoted to the rank of Major. He was also an instructor at the

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. He began his career at University of Pennsylvania in 1976 when he was appointed assistant professor of

surgery Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...

. LaRossa died on January 21, 2014, in

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Notes and references

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