LEWISTON — Benoit Blondeau, M.D., a trauma and general surgeon, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center staff. He is practicing in association with Central Maine Surgical Associates in Lewiston.

Prior to joining the Lewiston-Auburn area medical community, Blondeau practiced at University of Mississippi Health Care in Jackson, Miss. He also served as an assistant professor of surgery and medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical School in Jackson, Miss.

His professional experience includes membership on the surgery staff at Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo. He also served as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Mo., and at the University of Health Sciences Antigua, Antigua, West Indies.

Blondeau earned his doctorate in medicine at Tours University Hospital in Tours, France. He completed residency training in general medicine and served a vascular medicine fellowship at Tours University Hospital.

For a number of years he practiced general and vascular medicine at Tours University Hospital and in private practice in Amboise, France, before entering a general surgery residency program, first at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., and then at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. He completed a two-year fellowship in hepato-biliary surgery and multi-organ transplantation at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a member of several professional organizations, including the Central Surgical Association, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, The Transplantation Society, American Medical Association, American Venous Forum, European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society, and International Liver Transplantation Society. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Blondeau has worked as a medical educator throughout his career. He is also the author or co-author of many scholarly articles, including presentations concerning his own research.

He lives in Auburn.