{"id":3062,"date":"2010-02-22T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/mendes-and-tamaddon-highlighted-healthy-u-magazine\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:15:28","slug":"mendes-and-tamaddon-highlighted-healthy-u-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/mendes-and-tamaddon-highlighted-healthy-u-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendes and Tamaddon Highlighted in Healthy U Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>February 22, 2010 &#8212; 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&#8217;s Peripheral Vascular Lab.  (See University Health Care System&#8217;s press release.)<\/p>\n<div class='image-section'>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/854\/2018\/09\/mendes-and-tamaddon-highlighted-healthy-u-magazine-image2.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" alt=\"image2\"><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Drs. Robert Mendes and Houman Tamaddon<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The two completed General Surgery residency and Vascular Surgery fellowship programs at UNC; Mendes in 2001 and 2003, and Tamaddon in 2007 and 2009.\u00a0 In addition, Dr. Mendes\u00a0 was on faculty with the UNC Division of Vascular Surgery from 2003 through 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>February 22, 2010 \u2014 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\u2019s Peripheral Vascular Lab.  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