Victor Warren Fazio AO, (2 February 1940 – 6 July 2015[1]), an Australian, was a colorectal surgeon, a leader at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio for over 35 years.
He wrote or co-authored 13 books, contributed scientific papers to standard texts, lectured and taught younger surgeons in the United States and Australia.
His father, also named Victor Warren, had won a Distinguished Service Medal while serving with the Royal Australian Navy during World War II.
Victor Jnr began his medical studies at the University of Sydney in 1957 and lived in a Legacy hostel for the student sons of men who had died as a result of war.
He completed postgraduate work at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, lectured in anatomy at the University of New South Wales and served with the Australian surgical team at Bien Hoa during the Vietnam War.
[2] From Paris in 1981 where he was attending a conference, Fazio conducted a number of successful long distance consultations to doctors in Rome who were operating on Pope John Paul II's serious gunshot wounds following the assassination attempt of the Pontiff.
Fazio was judged to be a "physician whose selfless dedication, boundless compassion and tireless work has made the most profound and singular contribution to the good of humankind."