He served a religious mission in Venezuela for 2 years. He graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University. He attended Medical School at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Peirce finished a general surgery residency at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. Afterwards, he furthered his medical education by completing a Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr. Peirce served as an active-duty surgeon for the US Army for 14 years. During this time, he deployed several times to the Middle East and acted as Chief of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Dr. Peirce joins Utah Surgical Associates as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. His interests include bariatric surgery, hernia surgery, anti-reflux surgery and minimally invasive surgery to include laparoscopic and robotic procedures. He peforms several forms of bariatric surgery to include sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass, single anastomosis duodeno-ileostomy with sleeve gastrectomy, duodenal switch and revisional surgery.

Outside of his professional career, Dr. Peirce loves to be with his wife and three children and is excited to return to Utah Valley. He remains in the US Army Reserves and is fluent in Spanish.

• Prospective randomized double-blind controlled trial of continuous local anesthetic infusion to reduce narcotic use in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Cleveland EM, Peirce GS, Freemyer JD, Schriver JP, Ahnfeldt EP, Rice WV. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2015 Sep-Oct;11(5):1152-6.
• Jejunal Diverticulitis, an Unusual Cause of a Surgical Abdomen. Halgas B; Peirce GS; Davis KG.  Ann Emerg Surg 2(3): 1015.
  
• Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery:  Clinical Questions and Answers.  Moore, Rhee, Fulda Chapter:  Critical Care of the Obese Patient, Peirce GS, Ahnfeldt, E.