Thomas A. Lyons, MD, FACS
Neurosurgeon
"I chose to go into medicine because of the challenge... the excitement of being able to make a difference in people's lives."
Clinical Expertise & Special Interests
Dr. Lyons is a neurosurgeon who focuses on the treatment of illnesses involving the brain, spine and peripheral nerves. He has extensive surgical and non-surgical training and experience involving a wide range of neurosurgical problems, such as brain and spinal cord tumors, brain aneurysms and vascular malformations, brain and spinal trauma, surgical prevention of and treatment for stroke and degenerative spine conditions. Dr. Lyons has a special interest in preventing neurological trauma through community education programs like "Think First".
Educational Foundation
Building on Excellence
Fellowship
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1976-1977
Neurosurgery Residency
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Hanover, New Hampshire 1972-1976
General Surgery Residency
Mercy Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1968-1969
Surgical Internship
Mercy Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1967-1968
Doctor of Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1967
Bachelor of Science
University of Dayton, Ohio 1963
Licenses
State of Wisconsin 1991
State of New Hampshire 1987
State of Pennsylvania 1971
Recognition of Achievement
Exceeding our Patient's Expectations
Military
1969 - 1970 Republic of Vietnam
93rd Evacuation Hospital
First Air Cavalry Division
1970 - 1971, Fort Riley, Kansas
First Infantry Division
2/16 Rangers
President - Wisconsin Neurosurgical Society
1994 - 1996
Chief of Surgery, ThedaCare Hospitals, 1996 - 1998
Boad Certifications
American Board of Neurosurgery, 1980
National Board of Medical Examiners, 1967
Fellow - American College of Surgeons, 1981
Affiliations
Tiffany Blake Fellowship in Neurology
National Institute for Nervous Diseases,
Queen's Square, London England
Sigma Delta Phi Alpha Epsilon Delta