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Dr.Joseph Carpentieri MD. June 17, 1927-March 31, 2025
Dr. Joseph C. Carpentieri, an ophthalmologist surgeon who became one of the first Doctors to perform a corneal transplant and who practiced in Hartford and Naples, Fl. for 64 years, died Monday at his home in Naples. He was 97.
Dr. Carpentieri lived in West Hartford and Simsbury for 46 years and wintered in his beloved Naples Fl., since 1987. He had an office on Asylum Avenue in Hartford. He was on the staff of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center and the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. He was a volunteer with the Naples Lyons club until 2022.
Dr. Carpentieri became interested in ophthalmology and medicine when he was a child in New Haven Ct. His hobby was reading, opera, and learning languages, becoming fluent in Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, German and English.
After high school, he served with the U.S. Army in Korea, from 1946 to 1948. He received his Undergraduate degree and a master’s degrees from Columbia University, Earning a master’s in Parasitology. He received a Doctorate in Medicine from The University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. Paying for his tuition by selling microscopes to the Swiss from New York City. He served as a Research Fellowship and surgical residency at Georgetown University Hospital Medical Center. In 1960 he opened the first eye clinic in Belize. In 1972 Dr. Carpentieri did a fellowship at the University of Ireland where he delivered 27 babies at the Rotunda, leaving months before the IRA bombing.
Dr. Carpentieri was a physician with the Hartford Whalers Hockey team for 26 years, the Hartford Wolfpack and NY Rangers for 10 years, and was on the Connecticut Boxing Commission where he oversaw all boxing matches in CT as a ringside physician for over 15 years. He was inducted into the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame in 2007. He was a member of the Hartford County Medical Society. He was named a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmic Surgeons.
He was a past member of the Hartford Gun Club, and a member of the Hartford Bushnell Opera Society.
He was predeceased by his wife of 60 years, Mary. His Parents Julia and Giuseppe, his Brother Carmen “Babe” Carpentieri, Dogs, Heidi, Honey and Aqua, and is survived by his four children, Michelle, Mark, Carla and Joseph Jr. and many cousins’ nieces and nephews.
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