LEWISTON – Gregory S. Holzman, M.D., a family physician, has been named to faculty at the Central Maine Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program. He has also been appointed to the CMMC Medical Staff.

Holzman served as an associate professor with the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Community Medicine and Family Practice departments. In addition, he was director of asthma studies and a consultant to diabetes studies at the medical school’s Center for Health Promotion and Translation Research. He was also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis, and served on the school’s Advisory Cooperative Board as North Dakota educational liaison.

His professional experience includes two years as a staff physician at Blackfeet Community Hospital and two years as medical director of Blackfeet Nursing Home, both in Browning, Mont. He also worked as medical director of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Science Physician Assistant Program.

A graduate of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., Holzman earned his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, Fla. He served a residency in family medicine at the Carolina Medical Center Department of Family Practice in Charlotte, N.C. He also earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of Washington in Seattle.

He is certified by the American Board of Family Practice and the American College of Preventive Medicine. He is also certified in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support.