LEWISTON – Sirus Hamzavi, an ophthalmologist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center Medical Staff.

He has been in practice since 1998. Prior to joining the Lewiston-Auburn area medical community he practiced in Portland as well as Pennsylvania.

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Hamzavi earned his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He served an internship through The Pennsylvania State University at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s Department of Surgery in Hershey, Pa.

He followed his internship with a two-year research fellowship with the Storm Eye Institute’s Glaucoma Service at the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C. He completed residency training through the Louisiana State University Medical Center’s Department of Ophthalmology in Shreveport, La. During the final year of his residency training, he served as chief resident. He served a retina fellowship at the Center for Specialty Eye Care in Atlanta.

Hamzavi’s practice emphasis is vitreoretinal conditions including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and procedures for repairing retinal detachment.

He is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is a member of the American Society of Retina Specialists, Maine Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, and American Academy of Ophthalmology. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

He has authored several articles that have been published in medical journals.

Hamzavi’s office is at 10 High Street, Suite 304, in Lewiston. His office number is 795-7517.