LEWISTON — Christopher Henry, M.D., recently joined the Central Maine Medical Center staff. He is practicing as part of the Central Maine Urology Center surgical team.

Henry earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Mo., and completed a general surgery internship and urologic surgery residency at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.

His educational background includes time at the Goethe Institute in Munich, where he studied German, as well as courses at the Middlebury College German Language School in Middlebury, Vt., and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in 2000. Henry graduated from Bowdoin with honors, having studied German with a concentration in archaeology and classics.

He was a co-director of Bowdoin College’s volunteering program, and was a member of a 1997 archaeological excavation in Paestum, Italy. He subsequently studied at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo., Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Mo., and the University of Missouri, in Columbia.

The co-author of numerous professional articles, Henry has worked as a research associate at the University of Kansas Health Science Center in Kansas City, Kan., and at Proteon Therapeutics in Kansas City, Mo. His health care background also includes work as an EKG technician and an emergency room technician at North Kansas City Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

A member of the American Urological Association, he is eligible to gain certification from the American Board of Urology.