Drs. Mays de Perez and Kunhardt will offer a full range of women's health services for residents of the Penquis region. Obstetrics services available through Mayo Women's Health include prenatal care, labor and delivery, and postpartum care.

Gynecological services include routine preventive care, basic infertility services, evaluation of abnormal PAP smears and bleeding problems, and surgery. Care of menopausal women is a particular interest of Mayo Women's Health, including issues surrounding osteoporosis and incontinence.

Dr. Mays de Perez comes to Mayo from Roanoke, Va., where she recently completed her internship and residency training in OB/GYN at Carilion Health System.

She earned her medical degree in 2004 at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and also finished her B.S. in biology at South Florida.

Dr. Kunhardt comes to Mayo from the San Francisco Bay area, where he was in private practice as an OB/GYN since 1997. In California, he was a member of the active medical staff at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae and Doctor's Medical Center in San Pablo.

He has been certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 1998, and is a Fellow of the American College of OB/GYN.

Dr. Kunhardt has spent most of his life in New England, and lived in Maine previously. A native of the Boston area, he graduated from Boston University School of Medicine, completed his internship and residency training in Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and practiced medicine in Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine before moving to California. His first year of practice as an OB/GYN was at Mt. Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor.

In recent years, Dr. Kunhardt held academic appointments as an instructor in OB/GYN at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and the Touro School of Osteopathy.

Appointments with Dr. Mays de Perez or Dr. Kunhardt may be made through Mayo Women's Health, at 564-4470.