AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PROF., DR PRETIDEV RAMDAWON,

M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.

Pretidev Ramdawon graduated in general medicine (MD) in 1986 from the Medical Faculty of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), Moscow.

After having completed his internship, he specialized in General Surgery (Clinical Ordinatura) at the same university under the expert guidance of two leading cardiac and general surgeons of that time, Prof. Fedor Nikolaevitch Romashov, Head of Department of Hospital Surgery and Prof. Konstantin Vasilyevitch Lapkin, Head of Department of Faculty Surgery. 

Prof. Vladimir Vladimirovitch Vinogradov, who held the Chair of Faculty Surgery, was Dr Ramdawon's first teacher of surgery and modelled and heavily influenced the latter's academic and professional life. 

Dr Ramdawon further specialized in Cardiovascular Surgery at the PFUR, and in 1991 at the age of 33 years he was awarded a Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Surgery and Pathologic Physiology as the result of joint clinical and experimental scientific research work at the Department of Pathologic Physiology, Medical Faculty, PFUR and the Division of Heart Surgery of the All-USSR Scientific Research Center of Surgery ("V-N-Tse-Kha"), USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow. It is to be noted that the Director of this Division of Heart Surgery was Academician Professor, Dr Boris Vladimirovitch Konstatinov, an outstanding cardiovascular surgeon of that time, who played an essential role in the training of Dr Pretidev Ramdawon as a cardiovascular surgeon.

Professor, Dr Leonid Polikarpovitch Cherepenin, Head of Department of Congenital Heart Diseases, Division of Heart Surgery of the All-USSR Scientific Research Center of Surgery, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, played a very active role in the training of Dr Pretidev Ramdawon regarding the surgical treatment of congenital heart diseases.

It should be noted that the All-USSR Scientific Research Center of Surgery ("V-N-Tse-Kha") has been the No. 1 Institution for Surgery in the whole ex-Soviet Union, whose director at that time was one of the greatest surgeons of all times, Chief Surgeon of USSR, ex-Minister of Health of the USSR for 16 years, Honorary President of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, member of all the Royal Colleges of Surgery in UK and professional medical associations in other countries, including USA, France, Germany, Japan, etc., Academician Professor Boris Vasilyevitch Petrovskii, who played an active role in the training of Dr Ramdawon and who personally recommended and welcomed the latter to become a member of the International Association of Surgeons.

Dr Pretidev Ramdawon did not stop his training in medicine there, being happy to be a cardiovascular surgeon and not being happy to stop there. He was widely investigating about the best and most effective methods of treatment in allopathic and alternative medicine. He received further specialized training in Traditional and Folk Medicine (Phytotherapy, Bio-Energo-Therapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Indo-Tibetan Medicine) as well as in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Medical Faculty, PFUR. He received specialized training in liposuction during a university post-graduate course by one of the pioneers in the field, Professor, Dr Luigi Pavesi from Italy.

The mentor who played the determining role in the intensive scientific experimental and clinical research training of Dr Pretidev Ramdawon at the PFUR is Academician Professor Victor Alekseevitch Frolov, Head of the Department of Pathologic Physiology and Dean of the Medical Faculty, PFUR, who spotted the former out amongst hundreds of students already in the second year of his medical studies and supported him and acted as his scientific consultant all the way out till he obtained his Degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences (D.Sc. - med.) in 1994.