LEWISTON - Ann E. Traynor, M.D., a medical hematologist and oncologist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center Medical staff. She is practicing with Hematology-Oncology Associates in Lewiston.

Before coming to the Lewiston-Auburn area, she practiced at Maine General Oncology Services in Waterville and Augusta. She has more than 18 years experience in hematology, cancer care and research.

A graduate of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., she then completed the Boston University premedical curriculum. She earned her medical degree at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C.

She completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Vermont School of Medicine in Burlington, Vt. She served a hematology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. She also worked as a clinical and research fellow at Northwestern University in Chicago before entering the Northwestern University Medical School faculty, where she served for 12 years before returning to New England.

Traynor's professional background includes 16 years of experience teaching physicians as well as performing research at Northwestern and at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass. She has written or contributed to more than 60 scholarly articles on topics relating to cancer and stem cell transplantation.

She is certified in internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Hematology-Oncology Associates is a clinical department of Central Maine Medical Center located at 12 High St, Suite 205. The office can be reached at 795-2935.