LEWISTON – Paula Kirby-Long, M.D., a sleep medicine specialist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center medical staff. She has joined Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates and is practicing at the Central Maine Sleep Center in Lewiston.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Duke University in Durham, N.C., and a master’s degree in geriatrics from Boston University in Boston. She completed a two-year post-baccalaureate premedical program at Harvard Extension School in Cambridge, Mass., and earned her medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H. She completed residency training in internal medicine and psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She recently concluded a one-year fellowship in sleep disorders, also at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

She is certified in sleep medicine and psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

The Central Maine Sleep Center, located on the lower level at 60 High St., in Lewiston, opened earlier this spring.