Surgeon Thomas Bascom, MD, joined PeaceHealth Surgical Specialties at Northwest Specialty Clinics in 2023. He has practiced general and vascular surgery in the Eugene-Springfield area since 1991. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle for his undergraduate and medical degrees. He then completed his general surgical residency at the University of Wisconsin in Madison before receiving additional training in colon and rectal surgery at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester, England. Raised in Eugene, Dr. Bascom has deep roots in the community. He and his wife raised their three children here. His mother Ruth was Eugene's first woman mayor and was instrumental in the creation of Eugene’s riverbank bicycle paths. His father John, a general surgeon, pioneered an operation for pilonidal disease that bears the Bascom name and brings to the practice patients and physicians from around the globe.