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Ted Epperly, M.D.
Program Director and C.E.O.
Graduated from University of Washington School of Medicine in 1980, Dr. Epperly completed his residency in Family Medicine at Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, Washington in 1983. He completed a faculty development fellowship at the University of North Carolina in 1986 and holds a CAQ in Geriatrics. Dr. Epperly retired July 2001 as Colonel after serving 21 years in the United States Army. Dr Epperly serves as the President - Elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). He is a former member of the Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine (RRC-FM). This body accredits all of the nation’s Family Medicine Residency Programs. He has published over 40 articles and book chapters and he is a staunch supporter of Family Medicine education, research, and both rural and underserved health care. He and his wife Lindy have been married for more than 33 years and have two sons. Outside of medicine his interests include golf, running, fly-fishing, and reading.-
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Kevin Rich, M.D.
Associate Director of Operations
Graduated from the University of California School of Medicine at Los Angeles in 1992, Dr. Rich completed his residency training at the Santa Monica Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program in 1995; he was Chief Resident 1994-1995. Dr. Rich joined the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in 1995. He concentrates his curriculum work on prevention, medical informatics, and outpatient procedures. Dr. Rich is also the current president of the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians.
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Tim DeBlieck, M.D.
Associate Director of Education
Graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1990, Dr. DeBlieck completed his Family Medicine residency at the University of Utah Salt Lake City program, graduating in 1993. He joined the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho faculty in 1996; his curricular area is Dermatology.
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David Schmitz, M.D.
Associate Director of Rural Family Medicine
Graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Schmitz completed his residency at Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in 1999. After six years practicing as a rural family physician, he returned to join the Residency as faculty in 2005. While practicing in northern Idaho , he served as chief of staff of Benewah Community Hospital as well as co-founder and medical director of the St. Maries Volunteer Community Clinic. Dr. Schmitz is a current board member of both the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians and the Idaho Medical Association.
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Brandon Isaacs, D.O.
Assistant Director of Operations
Born Rexburg, Idaho; native Idaho resident, returning after several years away Graduated Boise State University degree in Business Administration. University of Idaho after for follow on pre-med requirements. Senior chemist while at University of Idaho. Graduated from Des Moines University as Physician/Doctor of Osteopathy. Family Medicine Residency at Saint Louis University/Scott Air Force Base. Flight Surgeon for B-2 then F-15E during active duty for US Air Force. Currently flight surgeon with Idaho Air National Guard. Currently Physician for USAF Wrestling team at World Team and Olympic Trials. Chosen as Team physician for Armed Forces combined team at CISM in Istanbul, Turkey. Three Humanitarian missions Paraguay, South America; Niger, Africa; Senegal, Africa. Four years as Assistant clinical professor of Family Medicine at University of Wyoming. Family Medicine Residency at Casper. Married 24 years with five children: one married, one at University of Wyoming, one finished High School, and two in elementary school. Loves: horses, motorcycle, skiing, boating flying and most of all my wife Christena.
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Elizabeth Rulon, M.D.
Assistant Director of Education
Graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine, Dr. Rulon completed residency training at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho. She joined the faculty in 2005. Her medical interests include preventative health, pediatrics, and international medicine. Other interests outside of medicine include soccer, running, backpacking/hiking, and reading.
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Kim Stutzman, M.D.
Assistant Director of Rural Family Medicine
Dr. Stutzman grew up in Northern Michigan and moved west for college at Oregon State. She returned to Michigan for medical school at U of Michigan and then completed a residency at Family Medicine Spokane. After a year at University of Washington as a chief resident she settled in White Salmon, Washington in a small rural practice. After 12 years there she has moved to Boise to pursue teaching at the residency program. She has special interest areas in geriatrics, women's health and training the next generation of rural family doctors. When not at work she enjoys outdoor activities, camping, hiking, etc. with her husband and two small children.
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Suzanne Allen, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Dean for Regional Affairs & Rural Health/University of Washington Medical School
Dr. Allen grew up in Washington, attended the University of Washington as an undergraduate, and George Washington University for her medical education, before completing her Family Medicine Residency at Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews AFB. Following four years of active duty practicing at Ellsworth AFB and Andrews AFB, Dr. Allen joined the FMRI faculty. Recently Dr. Allen was appointed Assistant Dean for Regional Affairs & Rural Health for the University of Washington School of Medicine, overseeing clinical medical education in Idaho and continuing an active medical practice. She enjoys reading, hiking, biking, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.
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Perry Brown, M.D.
Graduated from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine in 1995, Dr. Brown completed his Pediatric Residency at the Children’s Hospital/University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, CO in June of 1998. After completing residency Dr. Brown was a general pediatrician for seven years at the Saltzer Medical Group in Nampa and Meridian, ID. Additionally, he has served as Assistant Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center of Idaho since January, 2001. Dr. Brown joined the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in April of 2004. Since that time he has made the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho's Pediatric curriculum an even higher caliber program than it was before.
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Sky Blue, M.D.
Director of HIV Service
Graduated from the University of Iowa Medical School in 1989, Dr. Blue completed an Internal Medicine residency in Phoenix, Arizona. He went on to an Infectious Disease fellowship at the University of Utah. Dr. Blue joined the FMRI faculty in 1998 as parttime Internal Medicine faculty. He specializes in geriatrics and infectious diseases. He serves as Director of the HIV Services Clinic at FMRI, which is a federal grant recipient and which provides comprehensive interdisciplinary medical care to persons living with HIV/AIDS.
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Kara Cadwallader, M.D.
Director of Grants and Research
Graduated from University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in 1995,Dr. Cadwallader completed her residency at Tacoma Family Medicine, Tacoma, Washington in 1998. Prior to joining FMRI in 2001, Dr Cadwallader was an assistant clinical professor and primary care provider in Santa Rosa, California. Medical interests include women's health and family planning, behavioral sciences, and academic writing. She is married to a physician and has two crazy toddlers. Dr. Cadwallader likes to wind-surf, cycle, scuba dive, read non-medical literature, and, above all, be a mom.
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Justin Glass, M.D.
Graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1997, Dr. Glass completed his residency training through Providence – St. Peter Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Olympia, Washington in 2000. He subsequently went to work for the Navajo Area Indian Health Service in Shiprock, NM as a medical officer. In this capacity he provided broad spectrum family medicine care for five years. After a three year stint on the faculty of the Department of Family Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, he joined the faculty of FMRI in October 2008. He and his wife Marci (pastor at Southminster Presbyterian Church) have two boys. In his free time he watches countless youth sporting events and enjoys road and trail running.
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Cyndi Hayes, M.D.
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Roger Hefflinger, Pharm.D.
Graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Pharmacy in Omaha and the clinical pharmacy training program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Dr. Heflinger joined the FMRI faculty in 1990. His responsibilities include teaching residents, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students from Idaho State University, pharmacology and therapeutics in the hospital and ambulatory care setting.
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Jeralyn Jones, M.D.
Dr. Jones graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas in 1987 and completed her Psychiatry residency at Pacific Presbyterian Hospital in San Francisco in 1991. She joined the FMRI faculty in 2005. Her special interests include psychosomatic medicine and women's mental health.
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Julie Kikuchi, M.D.
Graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2001, Dr. Kikuchi completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of New Mexico in 2004. She subsequently worked in the Pediatric Urgent Care Clinic of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, prior to joining the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in October 2005 as a part-time Pediatric attending.
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Susan Kim, M.D.
Graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1988, Dr. Kim completed her Pediatric Residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in June of 1991. She completed one year as the Chief Resident in Pediatrics and then completed a two-year fellowship in General Pediatrics in 1994. also has a Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology. She joined the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in November of 1998 as a part-time Pediatric attending.-
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Peter Kozisek, M.D.
Graduated from Creighton University in 1986, and the University of Wyoming Family Practice Residency in Cheyenne in 1989, Dr. Kozisek joined the Family Practice Residency of Idaho in 1996 A former Medical Director of the Family Practice Medical Center, Dr. Kozisek is currently Associate Director of the Residency Program.
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Robert Montgomery, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Montgomery joined the faculty in 1996. He formerly practiced in Boise for 25 years and served as Medical Director of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. Dr. Montgomery is board certified in Surgery and involved in the surgery curriculum, including surgical outpatient procedures.
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Todd Palmer, M.D.
Graduated from the University of California at Davis. Dr. Palmer completed his residency at the Family Practice Residency of Idaho in 1989. He then completed a faculty development fellowship at the University of Washington and has achieved added qualifications in geriatric medicine through the American Board of Family Practice. His special interests are geriatrics, the use of computers and handhelds in clinical medicine and residency training, and substance abuse. Dr. Palmer joined FMRI as family medicine faculty in 1998. He is the coordinator of FMRI’s geriatrics and informatics curricula.
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Jennifer Petrie, M.D.
Dr. Petrie grew up in north Idaho, and after graduating from NNU, earned her M.D. from the University of WA SOM. She was the first WRITE student in Hailey, Idaho; this solidified her desire to become a Family Physician and provide care to the underserved in rural Idaho. To this end, she trained at FMRI from 1998-2001. After her OB fellowship in Spokane, Washington, she joined a small FP practice in St. Maries, Idaho where she covered all operative obstetrics and cultivated her interest in Women's health and full spectrum Family Medicine. She spent 2.5 years, prior to returning to FMRI, in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a faculty physician for the U of MN at North Memorial. She is the very proud mother of 27 month old twins, Clara and Christian, and 8 month old Caleb. Her rockstar husband, Ryan, is a CRNA at Saint Alphonsus who is happy to teach intubations. Outside of work, Dr. Petrie enjoys walks by the creek with the kids, pulling the kids in the bike trailer, swimming in the kid pool, knitting, reading, going to the movies, and driving the T-bird with the top down.
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Alex Reed, Psy.D., M.P.H.
Director of Behavioral Science, Mental Health, and Research
Graduated from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. He completed a fellowship in primary care clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. After the fellowship, Dr. Reed was the behavioral science educator at the Wesley Family Medicine Residency Program in Wichita, Kansas. He joined the FMRI in the summer of 2007. Dr. Reed is married and has two children. He enjoys mountain biking, golf, hiking, skiing and cooking. His clinical interests include behavioral medicine, individual and family therapy, stress management and hypnotherapy.
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Kelly Showalter, M.D.
Graduated from University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine in May of 1988, Dr. Showalter completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Utah in May of 1991. After Residency Dr. Showalter spent a year at Emory University in Atlanta, GA as a Pediatric staff physician and then three years with the Pediatric and Adolescent Center doing private practice in Boise, ID. She joined the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho as a part-time Pediatric attending in April of 1998. Her husband is an orthopedic physician who works with the residents on their Orthopedic rotation as well as on some electives.
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Marietta Thompson, M.D.
Graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1985, Dr. Thompson completed her Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City in 1989. After Residency, she spent four years in private practice at the Women's Clinic in Boise, Idaho. Dr. Thompson joined Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in September 2002 as the OB faculty coordinator.
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