Dr. Cristan Anderson Joins
Staff of Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Cristan E. Anderson, a general surgeon, to the hospital's active medical staff.

In addition to her medical degree from Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, Anderson, a Connecticut native, is working toward a master's degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. She earned her bachelor's degree from Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., where she was a double major in chemistry and English.

Anderson's medical specialties include breast cancer, hernia, and endocrine surgery, endoscopy, and laparoscopic and minimally invasive gall bladder and bowel surgery.

Anderson says she chose Penobscot Bay Medical Center as her new home base because she was drawn to the beauty of the Midcoast and because after training in a large city at a large city hospital, she wanted to live in a smaller community at a smaller community hospital where she could work as a general surgeon and "take care of the whole patient."

"In larger city hospitals, everyone is so specialized and deals with a very narrow sliver of the population," Anderson said. "At Pen Bay I have the opportunity to develop a relationship with my patients and have a closer, more collegiate, relationship with my fellow physicians. In addition, I am extremely impressed with the quality of the care and medicine delivered here and I want to work in a place where such high quality of care is delivered."

Anderson lives in Camden. Outside of work, her interests include skiing, swimming, sailing, cooking and reading. She can be reached at her office at 593-5723.