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Sean Maloney,
President of the Maine Coast Memorial
Hospital Medical Staff, announced that
Octavio J. Carreno, MD, FACS, has joined the
hospital medical staff in the practice of
otolaryngology.
Dr.
Carreno comes to Ellsworth from Orange Park, FL,
where he was on the medical staff of Orange Park
Medical Center and Baptist Medical Center as
well as Staff Otolaryngologist at Wolfson
Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville.
A graduate of Tulane
University School of Medicine, Dr. Carreno
completed his internship in internal medicine
and residency in general surgery at Tulane
University Medical Center, and his residency in
Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at George
Washington University Medical Center in
Washington, DC.
After attending the Naval Aerospace Medical
Institute (NAMI), Dr. Carreno was appointed the
Staff Otolaryngologist/Flight Surgery Fellow at
NAMI. While on active duty Dr. Carreno was the
Staff Otolaryngologist/Naval Flight Surgeon at
Camp LeJeune and Cherry Point Naval Hospitals in
North Carolina. He served with the 26th Marine
Expeditionary Unit as Unit Surgeon/Otolaryngologist
– Head and Neck Surgeon for United States &
Coalition Forces Central Command Area of
Operations, Operation Enduring Freedom.
Currently, Dr. Carreno is Lieutenant Commander,
Medical Corps, U.S. Naval Reserve.
As a medical specialist, Dr. Carreno is highly
skilled in a number of procedures including
pediatric adenoidectomy, pediatric
tonsillectomy, snoring and sleep apnea surgery,
pediatric and adult ear surgery, image-guided
endoscopic sinus surgery, minimally invasive
balloon sinuplasty sinus procedure, nasal/septal
surgery, thyroid surgery and head and neck
cancer surgery. He finds a special reward in
working with children with pediatric
otolaryngological problems. Dr. Carreno’s
joining Dr. Bradley Goldstein in Maine Coast
Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery will
greatly increase the services available to our
patients.
For more information, please call
Maine Coast
Otolaryngology at 664-5658.
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