AUBURN — Lauren Adey, M.D., of Central Maine Orthopaedics, recently passed the 2009 Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand examination offered by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Adey joins a select group of hand surgeons in Maine with this distinction. She has held a Diplomat Certificate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery since 2007.

Certification by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery means that the orthopaedic surgeon has met the specified educational, evaluation and examination requirements of the board. Subspecialization in hand surgery requires at least one year of additional education, endorsement by the program director, peer review, documented experience in a minimum number of hand surgery cases of specified types of problems and a written examination on hand surgery.

Adey graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pa. She completed her residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program in Boston and a Sports Medicine fellowship at Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. She completed her hand surgery fellowship program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has been an orthopaedic surgeon with Central Maine Orthopaedics since 2005 and treats a wide variety of orthopaedics issues with a primary focus on the hand and forearm. Adey also holds orthopaedic clinics at Rumford and Bridgton hospitals.

Adey is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, The Maine Medical Association, the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and the New England Hand Society. She lives in Falmouth with her husband, Gregg, and their three sons.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, call Central Maine Orthopaedics at 783-1328, or visit the Web site at www.cmogroup.org.