C. Rollins Hanlon

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C (Cyril) Rollins "Rollo" Hanlon,

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

China-Burma-India Theater and aboard the hospital ship Repose. He died after a long battle with lymphoma.[4]

References

  1. ^ "C Rollins Hanlon". tributes.com. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
  2. ^ "C. Rollins Hanlon, MD, FACS, remembered" (PDF). www.facs.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
  3. ^ Loren Humphrey (2000). Quinine and Quarantine: Missouri Medicine through the Years. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. pp. 104, 105. 0-8262-1269-7.
  4. ^ "C. Rollins Hanlon, M.D., 1915-2011". St. Louis University. Archived from the original on 2015-02-01. Retrieved 2012-01-22.