LEWISTON — Jonathan T. Fanburg, M.D., a pediatrician, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center medical staff. He is practicing in association with Central Maine Inpatient Physicians Pediatric Hospitalist Service.

A magna cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, he earned his medical degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn. He completed a pediatric internship and residency at The Children’s Hospital in Denver and served an adolescent medicine fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In 1998 he was awarded a master’s degree in public health from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Prior to beginning his work at CMMC, Fanburg practiced for 11 years with Maine Coast Pediatrics at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, where he provided care for young people in inpatient, outpatient, emergency department and critical care settings. He also served as school physician for the Ellsworth public school system.

His professional practice experience includes providing health care at Children’s National Medical Center and three years as a care provider at the George Washington University Student Health Clinic. He also worked at the Denver school system and The Children’s Hospital in Denver. He has served as a volunteer physician at hospitals in India and the Marianas Islands, east of the Philippines.

He is certified in pediatrics and adolescent medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics. He is also certified in neonatal advanced life support and pediatric Advanced Life Support.

He is currently the president of the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Fanburg has been active in numerous community service projects in the past, including Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative, Youth Obesity Think Tank, Maine Eating Disorders Collaborative, Maine State Legislature Task Force on Cervical Cancer, Regional School Nurses Work Group (Hancock County, Maine), Open Door Rehabilitation Center in Ellsworth, Tobacco Free Maine Hancock County Advisory Committee, and the Ellsworth Area Community Center Board of Directors.

He has educated students and residents from George Washington University, as well as Eastern Maine Medical Center and Husson College, both in Bangor.

He is a member of the Maine Medical Association, Society for Adolescent Medicine, and American Academy of Pediatrics.

In 2005 he was presented an American Academy of Pediatrics Special Achievement Award for “pioneer work in the field of telemedicine.” He is the author or co-author of numerous articles published in professional journals.

Fanburg lives in Portland with his wife and two children.

Central Maine Inpatient Physicians Pediatric Hospitalist Service is also comprised of Amy Belisle, M.D., Stephanie Boggs, M.D., Sheila M. Carroll, M.D., John J. Hagerty, M.D., Dan C. Hale, M.D., Marly L. Larrabee, M.D., and Kimberly C. Owen, M.D.