Dr. Michael Macechko is from Fayetteville, Arkansas and received his undergraduate degree at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a double major in microbiology and history. He achieved his Doctorate in Medicine from the University or Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine. Dr. Macechko received a noteworthy award from his medical school classmates; he was the single recipient of the Ethel Brickey Hicks Merit Scholarship, awarded to “a classmate that is caring and compassionate, has high moral and ethical values, and is dedicated to healing and contributing his time and skills to the community. The recipient must be an individual that his classmates would most want representing the medical profession to the public!” Michael’s wife is Merin.