LEWISTON - Northeast Plastic Surgery, a Lewiston-based surgical practice, has joined a multispecialty group physician practice affiliated with Central Maine Medical Center.

Steven C. Bonawitz, M.D., the plastic surgeon who founded Northeast Plastic Surgery, and his office staff have joined Central Maine Physician Practices.

The practice will continue functioning as Northeast Plastic Surgery and will continue serving patients from offices at 287 Main Street Plaza, Suite 302, in Lewiston.

Bonawitz performs a variety of plastic surgery procedures, ranging from cosmetic surgery procedures like breast augmentation or liposuction to reconstructive trauma surgery and complex wound management.

He has significant experience in post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, surgical treatment of skin cancer and other skin diseases, reconstructive microsurgery, surgery of the hand and extremities, treatment of facial deformities, and other reconstructive surgeries.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the State University of New York in Albany, N.Y., Bonawitz was awarded his medical degree from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse College of Medicine in Syracuse, N.Y. He served a general surgery residency with the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he was presented the Dunmire Award for being the outstanding surgery resident. He completed a two-year plastic surgery residency with the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Plastic Surgery in Rochester, N.Y.

He is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association, Maine Medical Association and Androscoggin County Medical Society

He lives in Lewiston with his wife daughter and son

For more information about Northeast Plastic Surgery, call 795-0488.