Dr. Paul Meirick specializes in caring for patients with acute sports or activity-related injuries as well as chronic medical conditions. He also has extensive training in treating medical sports conditions such as sport-related concussion, stress fracture, heat illness, medical illness, and injury prevention.
Dr. Paul Meirick specializes in caring for patients with acute sports or activity-related injuries as well as chronic medical conditions. He also has extensive training in treating medical sports conditions such as sport-related concussion, stress fracture, heat illness, medical illness, and injury prevention.
Dr. Paul Meirick received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, in Iowa City, Iowa. He then completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California and his Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. After fellowship, Dr. Meirick worked at Vanderbilt as a Clinical Instructor in Sports Medicine and Internal Medicine. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (2017) and is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM), the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and the American College of Physicians (ACP).
As a non-operative sports medicine physician, Dr. Meirick treats patients without the use of surgery. He specializes in caring for patients with acute sports or activity-related injuries (sprains, strains, and fractures) as well as chronic medical conditions (joint pain and arthritis). Dr. Meirick also has extensive training in treating medical sports conditions such as sport-related concussion, stress fracture, heat illness, medical illness, and injury prevention. He has a special interest in the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound to diagnose injuries and aid in procedures such as injections.
Dr. Meirick has conducted research in nutritional screening for athletes, corticosteroid injections, and cardiac arrhythmias in sport. In Nashville, he served as a team physician for several high schools, Vanderbilt University, and the Nashville Sounds baseball team. Dr. Meirick and his family enjoy being active in the outdoors and watching and participating in sports.
Dr Paul Meirick and entire team are phenomenal. doctor is one of the best. His work ethics are excellent. Thank you Dr Paul highly, appreciate you and your team for a job well done. God bless you all.Thank you🙏
He is awesome!! Listens to concerns and has the best interest of the patient in this case my son!! We could not be happier with his care!
Very knowledgeable, personal and caring
Great doc!
He was efficient, caring, clear…
Dr. Meirick has helped me more than once with different breaks! He’s very knowledgeable and easy to talk to! Even though I hope I don’t have to see him for another injury, if something comes up I will definitely request him!
Good listener and helpful
Dr Meirick is very thorough and he listens to what I have to say about the issue I am seeing him about.
For the first time, a doctor that listened to me and explained my situation. I will recommend him to anyone.
Kind, compassionate, explained things in terms I could understand.