Richard J. Fugo, MD, the inventor of the Fugo blade, also known as the plasma blade, died on March 14.
Fugo owned and operated the Fugo Eye Institute in Norristown, Pennsylvania, from 1985 until his retirement in December 2019.
He was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and received a master’s degree in biology at Villanova University and a PhD in human physiology from Thomas Jefferson Medical College before attending medical school at the University of Bologna in Italy, according to his obituary. He completed an ophthalmology residency at (Read more...)
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