Physician to join Livermore Falls Family Practice

LIVERMORE FALLS — Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington has announced, effective Sept. 1, local physician Paul Wooden will join Franklin Health Livermore Falls Family Practice. Dr. Wooden is a family physician specializing in the treatment and prevention of skin cancer and other diseases of the skin.

Wooden previously was in private practice in Farmington, and has been a member of the FMH medical staff since 1995. He will continue caring for his active family medicine patients from his former practice, and is accepting new patients for the evaluation and treatment of skin problems and diseases.

He has expertise in the use of dermoscopy, a technique that greatly improves the accuracy of determining whether a mole is benign or cancerous. He also offers photodynamic therapy for the treatment of precancerous skin lesions, as well as narrow-band ultraviolet light therapy for the treatment of psoriasis and other inflammatory skin diseases.

Wooden graduated magna cum laude from the Oregon Health & Sciences University, is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society.