LEWISTON — Two Central Maine Medical Group surgeons have been named fellows of the American College of Surgeons.

Minimally invasive and bariatric surgeon Jamie Loggins, M.D., and general and trauma surgeon Anita D. Praba-Egge, M.D., have been initiated as fellows of the American College of Surgeons. Fellowship status indicates that a surgeon meets criteria established by the ACS, including qualifications regarding formal education and training, certification, practice experience, continuing education and ethics.

Loggins is medical director of the Central Maine Bariatric Surgery department and has been practicing at CMMC since 2006. Praba-Egge is a general and trauma surgeon with Central Maine Surgical Associates and has been working at Central Maine Medical Center since 2007. Central Maine Bariatric Surgery and Central Maine Surgical Associates are Central Maine Medical Group health care provider practices.

Before beginning his work at CMMC, Loggins completed a fellowship in minimally invasive and robotic surgery at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif. A graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill., he earned his medical degree at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago.

After his graduation from medical school, Loggins served in the U.S. Army, first as a surgical intern at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, and later as a troop medical clinic officer in charge at Fort Carson, Colo. He completed surgical residency training at The Marshfield Clinic-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, Wis. Loggins is certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery.

Praba-Egge graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, and earned her medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. She was later awarded a doctorate from the Tulane University Graduate School Department of Parasitology.

She completed surgical internship, residency and chief residency in the department of surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia. During her training she also worked as a research fellow and served as a burn fellow at MCV’s Evans-Haynes Burn Unit. After training in general surgery she completed a surgical critical care fellowship at MCV prior to joining CMMC. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery, with added qualification in critical care.