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Merrill Hicks, M.D.

Dr. Merrill Hicks is co-Medical Director of Archbold Dialysis Services of Thomasville, Georgia. He is a graduate of Tulane University & studied medicine at theUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, followed by an Internal Medicine Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, after which he served as Chief Resident at the Nashville, Tennessee VA Medical Center. Following 10 years of private practice in his hometown of Greenwood, MS, Dr. Hicks completed a Nephrology Fellowship under Dr. John Bower, again at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he became convinced that home hemodialysis is the superior form of renal replacement therapy. This belief, and the desire to see every dialysis patient experience maximally beneficial therapy, frames his professional interests. Dr. Hicks lives with his wife Deborah about fifty feet from the John D. Archbold Medical Center in Thomasville, GA. They have 4 grown children.