Merry Sebelik, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Merry Sebelik received her medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, and completed her residency in otolaryngology- head & neck surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals. Dr. Sebelik also completed a fellowship in head & neck surgery oncology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Dr. Sebelik is board certified in otolaryngology-head & neck surgery.
Dr. Sebelik has served since 1999 in the University of Tennessee Department of Otolarynogology-Head and Neck Surgery as a full-time faculty member within the Veterans Administration Medical Center and University of Tennessee Afilliated Hospitals, during which she has demonstrated a devoted and outstanding teaching effort to prepare young otolaryngologists for the subspecialty of head and neck surgery.
Dr. Sebelik has a special interest in caring for patients with head and neck tumors, thyroid and parathyroid tumors, facial skin cancer, and facial plastic surgery.
Dr. Sebelik's latest interest has been in the exciting field of minimal access surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. Advantages of this surgery for properly selected patients include smaller incisions, elimination of surgical drains, and shorter recovery times.
She regularly travels overseas on humanitarian medical missions to provide surgical care to needy patients with thyroid tumors, other head and neck tumors, and congenital defects of the head and neck, including cleft lip and palate.
