LEWISTON – Edmund “Ned” Claxton Jr., M.D., medical director of the Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program, has been recertified in his medical specialty.

The American Board of Family Medicine recently notified Claxton that he successfully completed the organization’s recertification examination. The certification demonstrates his knowledge and skills in the practice of family medicine.

To achieve ABFM recertification, Claxton completed 300 hours of continuing medical education over the past six years, and passed a one-day written examination testing his knowledge of a wide range of topics relevant to the practice of family medicine.

Claxton has directed CMMC’s Family Medicine Residency Program since 2001, and has played an active role in the education of more than 30 family physicians. Prior to joining the CMMC program, he was presented the CMMC Family Practice Residency Outstanding Teaching Award four times.

A graduate of Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in Cincinnati, Claxton worked in a private practice in Auburn for 22 years before taking the helm at the residency program.

He served on the CMMC board of directors for nearly a decade, and serves on the Central Maine Medical Center School of Nursing board of trustees. He has been active in policy and advocacy issues with Maine Medical Association. He was named Maine’s Family Practice “Doc of the Year” in 1987 by the Maine Academy of Family Practice.

Earlier this year he was named to the first class of fellows of the Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership. The Hanley Fellows Program was developed to facilitate the development of future health care leaders.