C. Rollins Hanlon

{{Short description|American pioneering cardiac surgeon}}

C (Cyril) Rollins "Rollo" Hanlon, MD, FACS (February 8, 1915 – May 3, 2011){{cite web|url=http://www.tributes.com/show/C-Rollins-Hanlon-91441142 |title=C Rollins Hanlon |publisher=tributes.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-22}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.facs.org/fellows_info/bulletin/2011/hanlon0911.pdf |title=C. Rollins Hanlon, MD, FACS, remembered |publisher=www.facs.org |accessdate=2012-01-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217075402/http://www.facs.org/fellows_info/bulletin/2011/hanlon0911.pdf |archivedate=2012-02-17 }} 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{{cite book | author = Loren Humphrey | year = 2000 | title = Quinine and Quarantine: Missouri Medicine through the Years | publisher = University of Missouri Press | location = Columbia, Missouri | id = 0-8262-1269-7 | pages = 104, 105}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.slu.edu/x47904.xml |title=C. Rollins Hanlon, M.D., 1915-2011 |publisher=St. Louis University |accessdate=2012-01-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201210456/http://www.slu.edu/x47904.xml |archivedate=2015-02-01 }}