Donato D. LaRossa (1941–2014) was a medical doctor and Professor Emeritus of Surgery[1] at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1967.
LaRossa served in the United States Army for two years as the Assistant Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver, Colorado where he was promoted to the rank of Major.
He began his career at University of Pennsylvania in 1976 when he was appointed assistant professor of surgery.
LaRossa died on January 21, 2014, in Malvern, Pennsylvania.