Samuel Rodman "Rod" Irvine (5 December 1906, Salt Lake City, Utah – 27 February 1999, Laguna Beach, California) was an American ophthalmologist and ophthalmic surgeon, known for the Irvine-Gass syndrome.
He visited the major eye clinics in Europe on his way home and then settled back into practice in Los Angeles.
As the University of California, Los Angeles, developed, he focused his attention there to build the eye service as its clinical chair.
For the academic year 1950–1951 he was a visiting professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute, where he performed experiments on rabbits to study the effects of steroids on corneal scarring[3] and also taught optics and refraction to the residents.
[5] At age 63 he retired from surgical practice and moved to Laguna Beach, where he became a consulting ophthalmologist and a member of U.C.