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News Release
Sept. 12, 2023
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Leslie W. Taylor, 501-686-8998
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Vascular Surgeon Andre Ramdon, M.D., Joins UAMS

LITTLE ROCK — Andre Ramdon, M.D., a fellowship-trained, board-certified vascular

surgeon, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an
associate professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Surgery, Division of
Vascular Surgery.

He is seeing patients in the vascular and endovascular surgery clinics at UAMS and
Baptist Health.

“Dr. Ramdon brings excellent experience in both open and endovascular procedures,”
said Mohammed Moursi, M.D., director of the division. “He has a special interest in
lower limb preservation and a vast knowledge base concerning the most advanced
techniques to save limbs affected by artherosclerotic occlusive disease.”

Ramdon received his medical degree in 2004 from the University of the West Indies in
Mona, Jamaica. He completed a junior residency in orthopaedics at Mandeville Regional
Hospital in Jamaica, followed by general surgery residencies at the University of
Pennsylvania. He completed a vascular surgery fellowship at Albany Medical College in
Albany, New York.

He participated in advanced limb-salvage treatment in Italy and endovascular aortic

treatment in Germany. He also served as an attending vascular surgeon at the Corporal
Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia and as a clinical assistant
professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

While there, he contributed to a 25% reduction in amputations, as well as to the start of a

complex endovascular aortic care program.

UAMS is the state's only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing,
Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main
campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a
statewide network of regional campuses; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P.

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