Sarah Merritt, MD

My Degrees & Training: Majored in Biology Birmingham-Southern College and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. During medical school at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Dr. Merritt was selected for the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute-National Institutes of Health Research Scholars program, and worked for a year during medical school as a researcher at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Merritt performed her residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and pursued extra fellowship training in pain management at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. Her training included the full spectrum of pain management techniques, including interventional pain management and pain medication management.

Professional Memberships: Board Certified in anesthesiology and pain management through the ABMS, the gold standard in physician certification. She has practiced in a variety of settings since training, including Johns Hopkins. She has also volunteered her time to travel to India, providing anesthesia for cleft lip and palate surgeries.