Robert Arthur Chase (Jan 6, 1923 – Sep 9, 2024)[1] was an award-winning American surgeon, researcher, and educator.

[3] He returned to complete his residency at Yale University in 1953, and then assigned to be the Chief of Surgery at the U.S. Army Hospital in Leghorn, Italy.

The following year, he was recruited and appointed as Professor and Chairman of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

[4] This initiative led to the establishment of Stanford University's Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

In 1977, Chase resumed his surgical career at Stanford University and took on the role of Chief of the Division of Human Anatomy, a position he held until 1992.

Chase Library and Museum, on the ground floor of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, is named in his honor.