LEWISTON – Emergency physician Lawrence “Lanny” Oliver, M.D., has been elected to a two-year term as president of the Central Maine Medical Center Medical Staff.

He succeeds Larry O. Hopperstead, M.D., who stepped down as medical staff president after a two-year term. Succeeding Oliver as the medical staff’s vice president is family practitioner John M. Yindra, M.D.

Respiratory disease specialist Evan L. Ramser, M.D., has been named the medical staff’s secretary. Michael A. Eng, M.D., a pathologist at CMMC, was elected staff treasurer. Medical oncologist Jeffrey M. Miller, M.D., and general surgeon James V.I. O’Sullivan, M.D., were elected and re-elected, respectively, as at-large members of the Medical Staff Executive Committee.

The following physicians were elected chiefs of CMMC medical departments:

Anthony C. Miller, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology; David J. Stuchiner, M.D., Department of Emergency medicine; Thomas Byrne, M.D., Department of Family practice; Lise M. Cloutier, M.D., Department of Medicine; Moira A. Shanahan, M.D., Department of Obstetrics-gynecology; Douglas A. Pohl, M.D., Department of Pathology; Stephen B. Jacobs, M.D., Department of Pediatrics; Sue A. Mandell, M.D, Department of Radiation oncology; Charles C. Humphrey, M.D., Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging/Nuclear Medicine; Pamela R. Rietschel, M.D., Department of Surgery; Allan M. Ingraham, M.D., General Surgery Section; Guillermo J. Candia, M.D., Neurosurgery Section; Kenneth P. Wolf, M.D., Ophthalmologic Surgery Section; Michael F. Regan, M.D., Orthopedic Surgery Section; Joseph W. Flynn, M.D., Otolaryngologic and Maxillofacial Surgery Section; and Robert R. Kester, M.D., Urologic Surgery Section.

Elected assistant chiefs were the following: Miller J. van Vliet, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology; and Trisha A. Gushue, D.O., Department of Family practice.

Lanny Oliver, the newly elected medical staff president, has been a member of the CMMC Medical Staff since 1991. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and was awarded his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Va. He served a residency in pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C. He is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

He also attended the U.S. Navy’s Naval Flight Surgeon School in Pensacola, Fla., and served tours as a naval flight surgeon with the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 in Beaufort, S.C., and with Patrol Squadron Eleven in Brunswick. After serving six years with the Navy, he completed a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Florida Health Science Center in Jacksonville, Fla.

John Yindra, the staff’s new vice president, graduated from the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He served an internship and residency in family medicine at Wilmington Medical Center in Wilmington, Del.

He practiced in Wilmington, Del., and later at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport before joining the medical staff at D.F.D. Russell Medical Center in Leeds in 1985.

He is certified by the American Board of Family Practice, and is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians.