LEWISTON – Dr. John D. Dickens Jr., an internal medicine specialist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center Medical Staff. He will work as a CMMC hospitalist, providing care for inpatients at the request of their primary care physician.

Before joining the Lewiston-Auburn medical community, Dickens served a general medicine fellowship at Maine Medical Center in Portland. His professional experience includes nearly three years as a research assistant at MMC’s Division of Health Services Research. He also works as a healthcare and medical statistical consultant with Dickens Consulting, L.L.C., a Maine-based company. He is the author or co-author of several scholarly articles on various medical topics.

Dickens graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where he was presented the Earl Kendall Van Swearingen, Henry Lincoln Johnson and Dr. Ralph Fessenden Goodhue medical scholarships. He was awarded his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vt.

He later earned a master’s degree in public health from Dartmouth College of Medicine in Hanover, N.H. He completed residency training with the MMC Internal Medicine Residency Program. During the final year of his residency he was awarded the Robert Hillman Award, which recognized him as Senior Resident of the Year.

He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is also certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support. He is a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association and Maine Medical Association.

The CMMC Hospitalist Service was created last year to offer patients and their physicians an in-hospital care alternative that assures high-quality clinical care while promoting efficiency and cost savings.