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M. Bruce Shields, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(6):818.

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Rocko Fasanella, MD, the first full-time chief of ophthalmology at Yale University, has died at age 92 years. His textbook, Complications in Eye Surgery, was required reading in the 1960s and 1970s, and his Fasanella-Servat procedure for minimal ptosis remains a standard operation to this day.

Rocko Fasanella, MD

As a native of Trenton, New Jersey, Dr Fasanella assumed he would attend nearby Princeton University, until a Yale representative visited his high school and "the rest is history." He graduated from Yale College in 1939 and Yale Medical School in 1943. During medical school, he was part of a team that successfully administered penicillin for the first time in the United States. The patient was a young woman dying of septicemia following childbirth, and the irony is that she was the wife of the man who brought Dr Fasanella to Yale.

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