Dr. Denys Portrait

Dr. Douglas Denys

  • Board Certified
  • Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,
  • Fellow
  • American College of Surgeons
  • Diplomat
  • American Academy of Otolaryngology
  • B.S.
  • Utah State University
  • M.D.
  • University of Utah School of Medicine
  • Surgical Intern
  • University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • Residency
  • Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • Additional Year of Training
  • St. Jude Children's Cancer Hospital

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DR. DENYS
DR. DENYS' ARTWORK
SCULPTURE SEQUENCE
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
PERSONAL INTERESTS
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
FULL RESUME

DOUGLAS DENYS, M.D.

SCIENTIFIC RESARCH

Dr. Denys has been involved with scientific research since college. He began at the Biotechnology Center at Utah State University with Dr. Steven Aust and Dr. Harry Broquist from Vanderbilt University. Topic of research was the investigation of biodegradation of organic pollutants and neurotoxic effects of indolizadines.

In medical school at the University of Utah he continued to perform research but in socioeconomics. He volunteered at the Salt Lake City Homeless Shelter from 2001-2005 assisting as required, providing medical care, and during this time he studied causes of homelessness among the Salt Lake City population. The results were presented at a national meeting.

As a resident surgeon at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Denys worked in his free time at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with the intent to follow an academic career. He studied how radiation used to treat cancer of the head and neck affected the growth of children’s faces. He also studied head and neck cancer and developed a model for predicting outcome and survival, based on the amount of tumor burden. His artistic abilities and knowledge of head and neck cancer were unique and he was asked to illustrate the classification used for Neck Dissection. This permits those who treat cancer of the head and neck to clarify the type of operation used and has become the international standard method for neck dissection.

Below are publications and presentations by Dr. Denys.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. The effects of radiation on craniofacial skeletal growth. International J Ped. Otolaryn. (45) 1998, 7 -13.
  2. The predictive value of tumor regression rates during chemoradiation in patients with advanced head and neck cancer. Am. J Surgery, Nov. 1997.
  3. Lateral Skull Base surgery: Rational for approach and Choice of treatment. J Otolaryngology 27 (1) 1998.
  4. Letter to editor on effects of radiation on craniofacial growth. Intr J Ped Otolaryn. 1999.
  5. Committee for Neck Dissection classification. The American Head and Neck Societies Revised Classification for Neck Dissection. Sept 2000.
  6. Cochlear and vestibular Physiology. Otolaryngology-Head and neck surgery. www.emedicine.com 9/2000.
  7. Otitis externa. Outdoor Sports Journal. 2002.

PRESENTATIONS

  1. 2002. Brigham Young University. Pre Medicine student preparation class
  2. Etiologies of Homelessness in Salt Lake City. National Association for Teachers of Family Medicine. San Diego, CA. 1993.
  3. Effects of Radiation of craniofacial skeletal growth. American Society of Pediatric otolaryngology. Scottsdale, AZ. 1997
  4. The predictive value of tumor regression rates. International Society of Head and Neck Surgeons. Fiesta Coral Beach Hotel, Cancun, Mexico. 1997.
  5. Tumor Volume as a predictor of outcome and metastasis in patients with advanced head and neck cancer. International Conference on Head and Neck cancer. San Francisco, CA. 2000.
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