{"id":49735,"date":"2011-11-08T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=49735"},"modified":"2011-11-08T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:51:32","slug":"health-center-family-loses-a-founding-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/11\/health-center-family-loses-a-founding-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Center Family Loses a Founding Father"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dr.<\/a>
Dr. James O'Rourke in his lab. (UConn Health Center Archive)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The UConn Health Center is mourning the passing of Dr. James F. O\u2019Rourke, professor emeritus of immunology, and one of the founders of the Health Center\u2019s vision research program.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Rourke\u2019s long and accomplished career in academic medicine and research included a 42-year tenure at the UConn Health Center. He retired earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Among his many achievements, O\u2019Rourke established a close relationship with the Connecticut Lions Eye Research Foundation and served as director of the Connecticut Lions Vision Center for nearly 40 years. He was also widely published and served as the first director of the Division of Ophthalmology.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Rourke died Oct. 29 at age 86. His complete obituary, including information about calling hours and a memorial service, is available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/a>
Dr. James O'Rourke (right) demonstrates the adjustment of a laser beam as it would be used with an eye patient with the aid of Dr. Ijaz Shafi, a member of the ophthalmology staff. (UConn Health Center Archive)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n

Follow\u00a0the UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UConn Health Center is mourning the passing of Dr. James F. O\u2019Rourke, professor emeritus of immunology, and one of the founders of the Health Center\u2019s vision research program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":49788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-49735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 11:55:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49789,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49735\/revisions\/49789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/49788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49735"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=49735"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=49735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}