Richard A. Fermelia, M.D., F.A.C.S, F.A.M.B.S.

Dr. Fermelia was born and raised in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He graduated from Rock Springs High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with an academic scholarship to the University of Wyoming. He was a on the swim team at the University of Wyoming. He attended the University of Utah on the Wyoming Contract Program to earn his doctorate in medicine. Dr. Fermelia was an intern and resident in Dallas, Texas where he worked and learned in the several hospitals of the University of Texas Southwestern system, including the inner city hospital Parkland. He served as chief surgical resident in his final year of residency. His desire to return to Wyoming brought him and his wife, Shannon, to Cheyenne where he joined Consultants in Surgery with his present partner Dr. Take Pullos in private general surgery practice in 1994. The pride of his life is his kids: daughter Mercedes (Sadie) and son Lex.

In Cheyenne, Dr. Fermelia has developed a robust laparoscopic surgery practice, emphasizing complex abdominal procedures, which include (but are not limited to) minimally invasive approaches to heartburn (gastro-esophageal reflux), colon surgery, appendectomy, gallbladder surgery, splenectomy, groin hernia repair, and abdominal hernia repair. Dr. Fermelia has brought innovation and technology to Cheyenne in not only laparoscopic surgery, but also breast cancer surgery, and the trauma system. He has been the trauma director since 2001 at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and is involved at the state and national level in trauma systems and trauma care. Dr. Fermelia was instrumental in attaining Wyoming's first American College of Surgeons Level II Trauma Center verification at CRMC. Dr. Fermelia is the director of the CRMC transfer center. He has served as Chairman of Surgery at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and presently serves as elected ad hoc member of the Medical Staff executive committee in line for Chief of Staff. He serves on a multitude of Medical Staff committees including but not isolated to the hospital wide Performance Improvement Committee, the Trauma Committee (chairman) and trauma quality committee (chairman), ED Department Committee, the Transfer Center Committee (chairman), and the ICU committee, the CRMC Information Technology committee, the data trends committee, the Core Measures SCIP physician champion, the committee to supervise and implement the Computer Physician Order Entry System, the OR Steering Committee, the Strategic Thinking Committee (planning the future of the hospital and the Cheyenne medical community), the Cancer Committee, and committees formed to achieve a CRMC Cancer Center of Excellence. If you need something done well, give it to a busy person. Dr. Fermelia is foremost a great bariatric practioner and surgeon.

Dr. Fermelia was on of the first surgeons to perform weight loss surgery in Wyoming. He is an active member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the American Society for Bariatric Physicians. With Dr. Fermelia’s leadership and partnership with Cheyenne Region Medical Center, in conjunction with VISTA bariatric management services, the first comprehensive weight loss surgery program in Wyoming has been established in April of 2004: The Weight Loss Center at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, for which Dr Fermelia serves as bariatric medical director. Dr. Fermelia is an American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Surgeon of Excellence and an academic Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (FASMBS) and an academic Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS).

Dr Fermelia’s Curriculum Vitae:

Place of Birth:
Rock Springs, WY
Family:
Wife, Shannon. Two Children: Sadie and Lex.

Education:

• 1990 - 1994 Surgical Residency; University of Texas Southwestern; Dallas, TX
  Parkland Memorial Hospital; Dallas Veterans Administration Center; Zale-Lipshy University Hospital; Dallas Children’s Hospital
• 1989 - 1990 Surgical Internship; University of Texas Southwestern; Dallas, TX Parkland Memorial Hospital; Dallas Veterans Administration Center; Zale-Lipshy University Hospital; Dallas Children’s Hospital
• 1985 - 1989 M.D., University of Utah School of Medicine; Salt Lake City, UT
• 1981 - 1985 B.A., Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming; Laramie, WY

Professional Employment/Appointments:

• 2001 - present Trauma Director, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 2004 - present Vice President Wyoming American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma
• 2000 - 2003 Chairman of Surgery, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 2003 Vice Chairman of Surgery, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 1998 - 2001 Active Staff, VA Medical Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 1997 - present Clinical Faculty, University of Wyoming Family Practice Program Cheyenne, WY
• 1994 - present General Surgeon, Consultants in Surgery, P.C., Cheyenne, WY
• 1994 - present Active Staff, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 1994 - present Active Staff, Yellowstone Surgery Center, Cheyenne, WY

Licenses & Certifications:

Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
Fellow of the Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
Wyoming Board of Medicine – Active
Certified, American Board of Surgery
ATLS Course Director, ATLS Instructor, ATLS Certified

Professional Organizations:

American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
American Society for Bariatric Physicians
Wyoming Medical Society
Denver Academy of Surgeons
Parkland Surgical Society

Take G. Pullos, M.D.

Business Address:
5201 Yellowstone Rd., Cheyenne, WY 82009
Phone: 307-632-1114
Fax: 307-632-9920

Date & Place of Birth:
August 22, 1951
Cheyenne, WY

Education:

• 1969 Graduate, Central High School, Cheyenne, WY
• B.S., Zoology with Honors, University of Wyoming; Laramie, WY
• M.D., University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Intern, General Surgery, Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, Martinez, CA
• Resident, General Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center; Sacramento, CA

Employment:

• 1984 - present General Surgeon, Active Staff United Medical Center
  Cheyenne, WY
• 2002 - present Medical Director, Yellowstone Surgery Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 1998 - 2001 Active staff, VA Medical Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 1994 - present Active Staff, Yellowstone Surgery Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 1988 - present Clinical Faculty, University of Wyoming Family Practice Program
  Cheyenne, WY
• 1984 - present Active Staff, Untied Medical Center, Cheyenne, WY
• 1983 - Aug-Dec Attending General Surgeon & Emergency Room Physician
  Incline Village, NV

Licenses & Certifications:

Wyoming Board of Medicine – Active
California – Expired
Nevada – Expired
Certified, American Board of Surgery
ATLS Certified, ATLS Instructor

Professional Organizations:

Wyoming Medical Society
Denver Academy of Surgeons
American College of Surgeons
U.C. Davis Surgical Association