ALTON – Among his many accomplishments, plastic surgeon Dr. Noor Ahmed provided a free monthly skin cancer screening at Alton Memorial Hospital for the past eight years. Dr. Ahmed retired this summer, but the free screenings will continue.
Dr. John Felder, a plastic surgeon added to the AMH staff in 2016, will provide the screenings along with Lorilee Sebesta, FNP-C, on the fourth Tuesday of every month in Medical Office Building C on the AMH campus. The screenings will be in the same location and the same time (4:30-6:30 p.m.), with only the day of the month changing. Dr. Ahmed had done the screenings on the second Wednesday of the month.
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The next screening will be Tuesday, July 24. Call 800-392-0936 to make an appointment.
“We saved many lives through that program,” Dr. Ahmed said upon his retirement. “One thing I wanted was to have a quality plastic surgeon here when I retired, and Dr. Felder is a great addition to Alton Memorial.”
Dr. Ahmed, 80, was born in Egypt and raised in Pakistan. He practiced for a few years in England, which is where he moved into plastic surgery, before moving to the United States and a two-year residency at Saint Louis University Hospital. That eventually led him to Alton, where he was the first physician to have an office in Medical Office Building A on the AMH campus in 1980.
“Alton Memorial had the most updated equipment, a great nursing staff and excellent anesthesiologists,” Dr. Ahmed said. “One thing we always have to remember is the patient comes first, and that was the case at Alton Memorial.”
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