Claire Hicks joined the Four Seasons staff as a team physician in January, 2010, but has a long history of delivering hospice care in south Georgia. After finishing a residency in Family Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine in 1988, she moved to Jesup, Georgia to work as a family physician. The southern rural HIV epidemic was just beginning, and to serve the needs of those patients she became an HIV specialist, eventually moving from private practice to public health, serving as the Clinical Coordinator for HIV Services for the Southeast Health District in Georgia. Her work with dying HIV patients, in the years before medications made HIV a chronic disease, inspired her interest in the field of hospice care. She served as medical director of Hospice of South Georgia from its inception in 1997. She was recognized for her work in HIV care with a Nightline special, Journey of a Country Doctor, in 1996, and honored as Georgia Woman of the Year in 1999.

Claire graduated from Emory University with a BA in religion, and spent several years in graduate school at the University of Michigan studying Chinese. She earned her MD degree at The Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga.

Claire is board certified in both Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She has two daughters. A native of northeast Georgia, she is happy to be back in the mountains, and looks forward to planting flowers in mountain soil. She also looks forward to full time work in the field she loves.

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