LEWISTON — Daniel Lacerte, M.D., a neurosurgeon, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center Medical Staff. He is practicing in association with Central Maine Neurosurgery in Lewiston.

Prior to relocating to the Lewiston-Auburn area, he practiced neurosurgery in El Paso, Texas. He served as an associate professor and chief of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Neurosurgery Division in El Paso, Texas.

As a member of the medical staff at El Paso University Medical Center, he introduced many surgical techniques, including endoscopic approaches to minimal skull base surgery and pituitary tumor surgery, epilepsy surgery and implantation of vagal nerve stimulator, and deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. Over the last seven years, he developed significant expertise in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery.

Lacerte earned his medical degree from Laval University School of Medicine in Quebec, where he also served a neurosurgery residency. He completed fellowship training in functional stereotactic and epilepsy at McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Montreal. He is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.

He is practicing at Central Maine Neurosurgery’s Lewiston office, Suite 401 of the 12 High Street medical office building, next to CMMC. The practice can be reached at 795-2494.