LEWISTON – Jennifer S. Pyenta, D.O., an internal medicine specialist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center medical staff. She is practicing in association with Central Maine Internal Medicine, a clinical department of Central Maine Medical Center.

Before joining the Lewiston-Auburn medical community, Pyenta practiced for three years with Motor City Internists in Detroit. In addition, she worked with St. John Health System in Detroit and was an associate at Macomb Academic Medical Group in Warren, Mich., where she was responsible for training internal medicine residents, interns and students.

A graduate of the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va., she earned her doctor of osteopathic medicine degree at Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at St. John Detroit Riverview Hospital in Detroit, where she was recognized as a Richard Pokriefka, D.O., Distinguished Internal Medicine Resident.

She has worked as a medical educator at St. John Health-Osteopathic Division of Medical Education in Detroit, A.T. Still University-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Mo., and Western University of Health Sciences-College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Pomona, Calif.

She is a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists and a member of the American Osteopathic Association. She is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine.

She lives in Auburn with her husband, Matthew Pyenta, D.O., a nephrologist who practices with Nephrology Associates of Central Maine in Lewiston.

Central Maine Internal Medicine serves patients from office facilities at 12 High St., Suite 400, in Lewiston. The office may be reached at 795-5700.