Ron Arison MD
Francisco Bermudez MD
Alexander Parr MD
Samantha Rood PAC
2438 E Commercial Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale FL 33308
954 7726740
Our Doctors
Ron Arison, M.D.
Dr. Arison is the founder of the practice and has over 30 years experience in General and Vascular Surgery. He did his training General Surgery training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University, St. Louis Missouri and did his Vascular Surgery Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio. Dr. Arison provides the breath of general and vascular surgery procedures. He also provides his patients with minimally invasive approaches and has vast experience in laparoscopy. He also does wound care and varicose veins. He does vascular access procedures as well.
Alexander Parr, M.D.
Dr. Parr is originally from San Juan P.R. He completed his General Surgery training at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL and he did an additional Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery. He currently has advanced training in Robotic Surgery and has done over 1200 Robotic procedures. Dr Parr provides the breath of general surgery procedures. His goal is to provide his patients with the least invasive approaches in surgery so that patients can return to there daily activities sooner. During his fellowship he specialized in complex repair of hiatal hernias, surgical treatment of Achalasia and Gastro-esophageal reflux. Part of his fellowship was also spent with the colorectal group at UFL and this gave him advanced training in minimally invasive approaches to colon surgery.
Francisco Bermudez, M.D.
Dr. Bermudez has vast experience in Laparoscopic General Surgery as well as in the field of Vascular Dialysis Access creation. He did 10 years of Surgical Training. He trained first at Instituto Superior de Ciencias Medicas de La Habana folowed by surgical residency at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Bermudez is orginally from Cuba. He provides patients with the breath of general surgery procedures as well as all the vascular access procedures available.
Samantha Rood, PA-C
Samantha completed undergraduate studies at Florida State University, Tallahassee FL. She then trained as a Physician Assistant at NOVA Southeastern University, in Fort Lauderdale FL. She also completed a Masters in Public Health during her time at NOVA and graduated Cumlaude. Samantha assist in the operating room, with hospital rounds and in the office as well.
Our Practice
We provide services in the fields of General and Vascular Surgery. Our practice offers the most advanced techniques and least invasive approaches to surgery. Our goal is to, if feasible, offer minimally invasive surgery approaches that are known to have a multitude of benefits. These benefits include: decreased blood loss, less pain, quicker healing time, and faster return to work. The three staff Surgeons in our practice have special training in different Niche areas of surgery and all of them together provide a great variety of surgical procedures to our patients. We have an excellent physician assistant extender that supports the three surgeons in the office and in the hospital. Our excellent office staff thrive to make the office visits and surgical planning as thorough and pleasant as possible.
THE PRACTICE
General Surgery:
Surgical Specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts and often thyroid and parathyroid glands. They also deal with diseases of the breast, soft tissue, trauma, Peripheral artery disease and hernias and sometimes perform upper endoscopies and colonoscopies.
What is Robotic Surgery:
Robotic surgery is done with the use of the Davinci Surgical Robot system. The use of the robot allows for more complex procedures to be done in a minimally invasive approach. The robot is a tool that provides surgeons : 3D visibility, fully wristed instruments that mimic the wristed moments of the human hand, easy suturing and improved ergonomics. Less invasive procedures allow for quicker recovery, decrease blood loss, decrease in wound complications and earlier return to work.