LEWISTON — Richard Ferstenberg, M.D., a gastroenterologist, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center medical staff. He is practicing with Central Maine Gastroenterology at Topsham.

A graduate of Columbia University in New York City, he earned his medical degree at Faculte Libre de Medecine in Lille, France. He completed internal medicine residency training through McGill University in Montreal and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland. He served a gastroenterology residency and a two-year gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Miami School of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology in Miami.

In addition, he served an endoscopy fellowship with University Hospital of Hamburg in Hamburg, West Germany, and a biliarytherapeutic endoscopy fellowship at the St. Luke’s Hospital Digestive Diseases Center in Racine, Wis.

He is certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Ferstenberg has special interest in disorders of the liver and pancreas, including hepatitis C. He has extensive experience performing various gastrointestinal procedures, including endoscopies, colonoscopies and endoscopic removal of large polyps.

He lives in Brunswick.

Central Maine Gastroenterology at Topsham is at 4 Horton Place, Suite 201, in Topsham. The practice can be reached at 798-6225.

Central Maine Gastroenterology’s main office is located at 77 Bates St., Lewiston.