Herbert Dedo

My husband found a reference to Dr Dedo while reading an article about Robert Kennedy Jr this morning. I want you to know that I am so very grateful for his life because I am one of the persons he helped with his skill and bravery. My life has been enriched because of the many experiences available to me because of his surgical technique treating spastic dysphonia. I will be making a donation in his memory to the Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation.

I was a patient of Dr. Dedo for ten years; I can only speak today because of his significant efforts in laser technology surgery. Over those ten years, and 40 surgeries, I lived in Japan, New Jersey, Venezuela, California, and finally Florida. Dr. Dedo was the only doctor I trusted with my ENT health, and my future ability to speak; or not.

My condolences go out to the Dedo family. Herb was a dear friend, we spent numerous hours talking about Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, Upper Paleolithic art. He travelled with me to remote parts of South Africa. I recall the special time we spent in the Dordogne in southwest France conversing about the origins of the human mind...I shall miss seeing this dear friend who always stimulated me to think more deeply about so many things,

It was a pleasure and honor to work and learn so much from Dr. Dedo as one of his OR nurses at UCSF-MZ hospital. Thank you for teaching and sharing this pioneer work and groundbreaking research in Micro-laryngeal procedures. I will always cherish the memories of Dr.Herb Dedo. My sincere condolences to Sigrid and the family.

Alice and I and my daughter (Kathryn Howe) extend our condolences to Sigrid and Herb,s family. Herb and I had adjacent rooms at the Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity house at UCSF, We have good memories from our medical school days there and our too infrequent get togethers since then with you and he at your home ,out to dinner, class reunions, etc, Herb and his unending stories will certainly be missed.

Dr. Dedo was a fellow UCBerkeley student and UCSF School of medicine graduate with my father, Dr. Robert Mayo . They have remained life long friends. The Mayo family sends condolences to the Dedo family and gratitude for a lifetime of friendship .

It was a pleasure working with Dr. Dedo as one of his OR nurses at UCSF-MZ hospital. Thank you for teaching and sharing your knowledge. I will always remember Dr. Dedo. My sincere condolences to the family.

I met Dr. Dedo in 1984 for help for my daughter, Angela. She was nine years old. She had developed a thyroglossal duct cyst when she was four. It had been removed by an ENT doctor in Vallejo, but it ruptured during surgery, and grew back. She had two more unsuccessful operations in the next three years before getting a referral to Dr Dedo. Unlike the two former physicians, Dr. Dedo was straight-forward about the risks, even telling us that he would need to scrape her larynx to get the...

Herb was a member and great supporter of the Cal Beta SAE Fraternity at UC Berkeley. He was well respected and loved by his fraternity brothers. Phi Alpha and Go Bears to Herb in the Chapter Eternal. We will miss him.