Dr. Lauren Adey, left, is available at the Rumford Hospital Specialty Clinics for patients facing problems of the hand, wrist and elbow. Sonjia Ellis, right, is manager of Specialty Clinics, which offers specialists on a regular basis so people from the River Valley don’t have to travel to the Lewiston-Auburn area for appointments.

Dr. Adey available at Rumford Hospital

RUMFORD – Dr. Lauren Adey of Central Maine Orthopaedics is available to see patients in the Rumford Hospital Specialty Clinics once a month. She is on the medical staff of Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, as well as Rumford Hospital. Her practice focuses on surgery of the hand, wrist and elbow.

Adey came to CMO from the nationally recognized Hand Surgery Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard University Orthopaedic Residency Program in 2005.

She completed a six-month sports medicine fellowship at Children’s Hospital/Beth Israel Hospital.

She graduated cum laude from Williams College and from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Adey is a member of the New England Hand Society, American Society for Surgery of the Hand and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Adey grew up in Massachusetts, went to school in New Hampshire and was lured to Maine by a medical school friend who had begun practicing in Auburn. Adey, her husband and three small children enjoy outdoor activities, including skiing.

More information about the Specialty Clinics is available by calling 369-1130.