LEWISTON — April E. Nedeau, M.D., a vascular and endovascular surgeon, has been appointed to the Central Maine Medical Center Medical Staff. She is practicing in association with Central Maine Cardiovascular Surgery in Lewiston.

Nedeau is fully trained in all aspects of open surgery for treating blood vessel disease. She has advanced training in endovascular surgery, including stent placement, to treat blood vessel blockages and diseases of the neck, chest, abdomen and legs. She is skilled at repairing abdominal aortic aneurysms (Triple A) andperipheral occlusive disease, as well as other vascular conditions.

A graduate of Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Okla., she earned her medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston. She served an internship and residency in general surgery at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in vascular biology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Harrison Surgical Research Department after being awarded an NIH grant to study wound healing, also in Philadelphia. She recently completed fellowship training in vascular and endovascular surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital.

She lives in Auburn with her husband and their daughter.

Central Maine Cardiovascular Surgery is also comprised of cardiothoracic surgeons Carmine Frumiento, M.D., and Louis Russo, M.D., vascular surgeons Allan M. Ingraham, M.D., and Pamela R. Rietschel, M.D., physician assistant Danielle R. George, and nurse practitioner Patricia A. Hutchins. The practice is at the Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute, 60 High Street, Lewiston, and can be reached at 795-8260.