Glenn A. Deyo, MD, FACS, graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and received his doctorate in 1982. He completed his surgical internship and residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash. Deyo is certified and twice re-certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and International College of Surgeons.
Deyo served in the U.S. Army from 1973 to 1992 as a Special Forces Weapons Specialist and Medic and later as a General Surgeon. He was activated from his surgical residency for a combat jump with the 2nd/75th Ranger Battalion into Grenada for Operation Fury. Deyo was again activated out of his practice at the peak of laparoscopy in 1991 to support Operation Desert Storm. With a special interest in gastroesophageal reflux disease, Deyo has completed more than 1,000 laparoscopic Hill hiatal herniorrhaphies. He has completed several thousand laparoscopic procedures and has served as a lecturer and instructor for a number of laparoscopic courses, training surgeons worldwide.
Deyo has given numerous presentations on topics concerning laparoscopic surgery to include cholecystectomy, inguinal and hiatal herniorrhaphy, and perforated viscus repair. He has also published works on the subjects of laparoscopy including cholecystectomy, complications, inguinal herniorrhaphy and perforated ulcers.
Deyo performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the Pacific Northwest in 1989, and was the first surgeon to perform this procedure, as well as a transperitoneal inguinal herniorrhaphy, under local anesthetic. He is also the first in the Northwest to treat traumatic colon perforations and perforated diverticulitis with a laparoscopic repair and Graham patch.
In 1990, Deyo was the first to use the thumb of a sterile glove as an extraction bag; the first to use a Ray-Tec sponge during laparoscopy for retraction, dissection and hemostatic control; and performed the first flexible laparoscopic surgery using sterilized gastroscopes.
Deyo was Chief of Surgery at Puget Sound Hospital in Tacoma, Wash. from 1992-1993. He served as State Chairperson for the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons. He is now a member of the Franciscan Acute Surgical Team, a subsidiary of the Franciscan Medical Group in Tacoma, Washington.
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