LEWISTON – Meghna Desai, M.D., a medical oncologist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center medical staff. She is practicing with Hematology-Oncology Associates in Lewiston.

Prior to beginning her work in the Lewiston-Auburn area, she practiced at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent.

A graduate of Parle Junior College in Mumbai, India, she earned her medical degree at Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College in New Mumbai, India, where she also served an internship. She completed an internal medicine residency at North Shore University Hospital in Forest Hills, N.Y., and served a hematology-oncology fellowship at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.

Her medical training also includes a pulmonary medicine residency at TNMC Nair Medical College in Mumbai, India.

She is a part-time faculty member at the University of Vermont School of Medicine in Burlington, Vt.

She is certified in internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

She is a member of the American College of Physicians, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Society of Hematology.

The practice is located at 12 High St., Suite 205, and can be reached at 795-2935.