Melissa M. D'Andrea, MD

Melissa D'Andrea MD, RPVI is an attending Vascular Surgeon at WMC Health Network located in HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston, NY and Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY. She is faculty for residents and fellows of the New York Medical College. She trained in the Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency Program at the University of Arizona-Tucson College of Medicine from 2021-2026. Her medical school training is from the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. She won the SVS Foundation Student Research Fellowship Award for her work in reducing health disparities in patients with peripheral arterial disease in 2020.

Dr. D'Andrea's interests include treatment of chronic limb threatening ischemia, aortic aneurysms, dialysis access problems, venous insufficiency, trauma, and the broad range of vascular disease. Her research efforts consist of limb salvage, comorbid depression effect on amputation outcomes, predictors of long-term mortality after AAA repair, statin and antiplatelet compliance in patients who underwent major vascular surgery, effect of BMI on vascular ultrasound quality, ultrasound criteria in renal artery stenosis of transplant patients, and blunt cerebrovascular injury outcomes.

Raised in Middletown, Connecticut, Dr. D'Andrea received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, double major in Biochemistry and Spanish. She served for 2 years in the Peace Corps in Guatemala following college in the Healthy Schools Program providing workshops and needs assessments in elementary schools related to public health. In medical school, she continued to take Medical Spanish and in residency, she certified in the GME Spanish Language/Health Disparities Distinction Track from 2022-2024 at the University of Arizona -Tucson through the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI). She can speak Spanish in cases of Spanish speaking patients.