Robert C.
Della Rocca, M.D. graduated from Villanova and Creighton
University Medical School. Following a tour of duty in
Vietnam as a battalion surgeon, he completed his
residency in Ophthalmology at the New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary. He then completed a fellowship in
Ophthalmic
Plastic, Reconstructive and Orbital Surgery at the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary and Manhattan Eye, Ear, and
Throat Hospital in New York City, and at the Albany
Medical Center in Albany. He is certified by
the
American Board of
Ophthalmology and is a fellow of the
American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Della
Rocca has been in private practice in New York area
since 1974. The practice is limited to the field of
Ophthalmic Plastic, Reconstructive and Orbital Surgery.
He has served as chief of the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery
department and as Surgeon Director at the New York Eye
and Ear Infirmary since 1981.
As director
of a fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery, Dr. Della Rocca has trained and continues to
train many Ophthalmologists as fellows in this
specialty.
Dr. Della
Rocca has written several comprehensive textbooks and
many journal articles in the field of oculoplastic and
orbital diseases and surgery. He travels extensively in
the United States and abroad to teach foreign
ophthalmologists about this specialty and to perform
surgery in those countries where the specialty of
Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery is not readily available.
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