Dr. Peter Uggowitzer, who practices with the North Carroll Family Physicians at the Cedarbrook Center in Hampstead, has been appointed to the medical staff at Carroll County General Hospital.

A graduate of McGill University School of Medicine in Montreal, he completed a family residency program at the University of Maryland and was chief resident in family practice there in 1989.

From 1990 to 1993 he practiced medicine in Campbellford, Ontario, where he served as vice president of Campbellford Hospital's medical staff and chief of the hospital's critical care medicine and emergency services departments.

Dr. Uggowitzer is a member of the American College of Surgeons and the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He also is a fellow of the American Board of Family Practice Physicians.