PRESQUE ISLE — Dr. Wesley J. English will join the Aroostook Medical Center staff as a general surgeon, effective Nov. 25.

English has been an active medial staff member at Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital in Portland for the past 20 years. He served as a courtesy staff member at Mount Desert Island Hospital.

English will practice at TAMC for a total of six months each year and spend the remainder of each year in Cape Elizabeth writing medical papers and designing surgical instruments.

He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and received a medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pa., in 1961.

English will join Dr. Arthur Weber at the Aroostook Surgical Associates at 165 Academy St.