RUMFORD — Leo Paraskevopoulos has joined Swift River Family Medicine in the Central Maine Medical Center Family Residency’s Rural Track Program. The Canadian native received his MD from St. George’s University, Grenada, and his undergraduate degree from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

While at McMaster, he worked on a small team to create a camp to help children develop skills in collaboration with peers, leadership, teamwork and communication. He was also a counselor at the Sports Fitness School in Hamilton, Ontario. He volunteered in community outreach while he was in Grenada.

As do all the physicians in the Rural Track Residency Program, he spent his first of three years primarily in CMMC Family Residency, but he did get to spend some time at Swift River Family Medicine, too. Now he will remain here for the last two years of his residency.

Paraskevopoulos says he is fluent in conversational Greek. He owes that to his grandparents who still live in Greece. He visited often while growing up in Canada.

When not caring for his patients, Paraskevopoulos enjoys skiing, snowboarding, soccer, football, hockey and gardening, although he has no place to garden here and little time to devote to it.