LEWISTON — Marc B. Perlman, M.D., a neonatologist and pediatrics hospitalist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center staff. He will serve as medical director of the CMMC Neonatal Intermediate Care Unit, a service dedicated to the inpatient care of babies with special medical needs.

Perlman previously practiced medicine at CMMC from 1997 to 2008. He was the medical director of the NICU from 1999 to 2008, and the unit’s associate medical director from 1997 to 1999. He served as director of CMMC’s pediatric hospitalist program from 2004 to 2007.

A graduate of Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., he earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College of Union University in Albany, N.Y. His specialized medical training includes a pediatrics residency, a neonatal fellowship, and a postdoctoral fellowship in physiology at Albany Medical Center Hospital in Albany, N.Y.

He is certified in neonatal-perinatal medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics.