FARMINGTON — Rebecca Arsenault, president/CEO of Franklin Community Health Network, announces that Oscar Fischer, MD, has joined the medical staff at Franklin Memorial Hospital.

Fischer assumed his new position on June 30, joining Drs. Fraley, Lancaster and DeCarolis in staffing anesthesiology services.

Anesthesiology is the practice of medicine dedicated to the relief of pain and total care of the surgical patient before, during and after surgery.

Fischer received his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. While in medical school he worked as a neuroscience researcher designing surgical techniques and instruments for retrograde mapping of the 8th cranial nerve. He remained in Chicago for his anesthesia residency.

Fischer resides in Industry with his wife.