February 22, 2010 — Drs. Robert Mendes and Houman Tamaddon are featured in the October-December 2009 volume of Health U for their efforts to educate people about vascular disease. In August, 2009, both physicians joined University Hospital, a 581 bed, not-for-profit community facility in Augusta, GA, where Mendes serves as the Medical Director of Vascular Services and Tamaddon as Medical Director of the University’s Peripheral Vascular Lab. (See University Health Care System’s press release.)
The two completed General Surgery residency and Vascular Surgery fellowship programs at UNC; Mendes in 2001 and 2003, and Tamaddon in 2007 and 2009. In addition, Dr. Mendes was on faculty with the UNC Division of Vascular Surgery from 2003 through 2009.