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Ted Epperly, MD, FAAFP | Program Director and CEO
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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 served as the past President and Board Chair 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, MD | Associate Director of Operations
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 | | 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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Justin Glass, MD | Associate Director of Education
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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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David Schmitz, MD | Associate Director of Rural Family Medicine
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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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Todd Palmer, MD | Assistant Director of Operations
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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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Elizabeth Rulon, MD | Assistant Director of Education
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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, MD | Assistant Director of Rural Family Medicine
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Dr. Stutzman grew up in Northern Michigan and moved west for college at Oregon State. She returned to Michigan for medical school at the University of Michigan and then completed a residency at Family Medicine Spokane. After a year at the 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, medical student teaching, 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 children. |
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Perry Brown, MD | Pediatrician
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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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Suzanne Allen, MD, MPH | Family Medicine
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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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Justin Bailey, MD | Family Medicine
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After graduating from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2003, Dr. Bailey attended residency at the Eglin Air Force Base Family Medicine Residency located in the panhandle of Florida. Three years and 4 hurricanes later he moved to California to join the teaching staff at the David Grant Family Medicine Residency. He completed a faculty development fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill in 2008. In addition to having a great time working with residents in California, he deployed to Iraq and Haiti for earthquake relief. Along the way his interests have included any and all procedures (currently the endoscopy director for FMRI), research into the health benefits of marriage and social relationships, and evidence based family medicine. Outside of work Dr. Bailey spends all his time modifying Nerf Guns, understanding the intricacies of a properly planned tea party, and constantly justifying the need for more novelty ice cream treats with his rock star wife, Holly, and 4 amazing kids.
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Mary Barinaga, MD | Family Medicine
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Dr. Barinaga practiced as a rural family medicine physician on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer, Idaho for twelve years. During this time, she precepted R/UOP and R/UOE students and precepted family medicine residents from various programs. She has found being involved with medical education has been one of the most rewarding aspects of her career. |
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Penny Beach, MD | Family Medicine
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Dr. Beach grew up in Ohio and Maryland before moving to New England, where she attended Williams College and worked for 7 years as a newspaper reporter. She then attended Dartmouth Medical School and did her family medicine residency at FMRI, graduating in 2001. She spent over 8 years working with mostly uninsured patients and Spanish-speaking migrant farm workers in Nampa, Idaho before joining FMRI in 2010. In her spare time she loves backpacking and being outdoors, nordic skiing, watching Boston Red Sox games, and spending time with her husband and 2 children.
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Kara Cadwallader, MD | Family Medicine
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After graduating from The 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. She completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at The University of Washington, with a focus on teaching application of evidence –based medicine. In addition to her FMRI faculty role, she is the Medical Director of Planned Parenthood in Idaho. Medical interests include women's health and family planning, behavioral sciences, and academic writing. She enjoys water and snowskiing, cycling, reading fiction and short stories and travel. She has three children. |
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Jennifer Cook, MD | Family Medicine
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Dr. Jennifer Cook grew up in Boise, Idaho, then moved east for schooling, attending Johns Hopkins University for undergraduate and Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for medical school. After a quick consideration of going into Orthopedics, she regained her senses and joined the Family Medicine Residency at Phoenix Baptist Hospital in Phoenix, AZ, where she served as Chief Resident from 2003-04. She then moved closer to home, completing an OB Fellowship at Swedish Hospital in Seattle, WA. She joined the faculty at Swedish Family Medicine for a short time before heading down under to New Zealand, where she practiced as a GP in a nationalized health care system, traveled as much of the sheep laden countryside as she could, and picked up a wonderful kiwi souvenir, her new husband, Jason. After three years, she decided it was time to come home to Boise and joined the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in January of 2009.
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Sarah Cox has been a health care provider since 1980. She is a certified nurse-midwife and women's health nurse practitioner and has worked in women's health since 1994. She writes a regular column for the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health on health education for women. She is also the author of several chapters in the new book Our Bodies Ourselves Pregnancy and Childbirth. She believes strongly in providing women with the best information so that they can make the best health care decisions for themselves.
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Tim DeBlieck, MD | Family Medicine
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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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Julie Gendler, MD | Family Medicine
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Ryan Gilles, MD | Family Medicine
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Graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2007 and completed residency training at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in June of 2010. Dr. Gilles is excited have joined the faculty and has particular interest in Family Medicine education and refugee medicine. He enjoys living in Boise with his wife and son and interests outside of medicine include playing guitar, running, hiking, and camping.
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Cyndi Hayes, MD | Obstetrics & Gynecolgy
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Dr. Hayes grew up in Meridian, Idaho and then attended Stanford University, majoring in Human Biology. She then was an Idaho WWAMI at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where she spent her 3rd and 4th years in Boise for the Idaho Track. Dr. Hayes completed residency in OB/Gyn at the Union Memorial Hospital and Franklin Square Hospital Center, both in Baltimore. She was in private practice in Boise for seven years prior to joining the FMRI faculty in 2008. In her spare time, she enjoys reading to her kids, knitting, biking to work, skiing, and hanging out at the Boise YMCA.
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Roger Hefflinger, PharmD | Pharmacology
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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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Jennifer Holliday, MD, MPH | Family Medicine
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Jennifer was born and raised on a cattle ranch in John Day, Oregon. She attended Stanford University and received a BA degree in Human Biology with a minor in German Studies. She graduated from a combined MD/MPH program at OHSU. Through out college and medical school, Jennifer has advocated for the health of rural communities. While an undergraduate, she organized an elective to teach medical students about the unique challenges of rural medicine. During medical school, she researched cancer screening among obese and non-obese individuals in rural Oregon primary care clinics for her Masters of Public Health thesis work. She recently served as the Student Director on the Oregon Academy of Family Physician Board of Directors. Her hobbies include flying (she is a private pilot), mountain biking with her husband, helping her family out on the ranch and being outside whenever possible.
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Brandon Isaacs, DO | Family Medicine
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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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Jeralyn Jones, MD | Psychiatry
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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, MD | Pediatrics
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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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Elisabeth Kuper, MD | Family Medicine
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Dr. Kuper is originally from Papillion, Nebraska and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. As a result, she is a very enthusiastic college football fan! She attended medical school at Washington University in St Louis, then came to Boise for her family medicine residency training. She graduated from the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho residency program in 2007. After a fun few months traveling, she began working as faculty at FMRI. She splits her time between the new clinic on Emerald Street and working with the residents, both of which she enjoys immensely. In particular, she enjoys prenatal, pediatric and group care. In her spare time, she loves to spend time outdoors playing various intramural sports, skiing, hiking, camping and playing with her dog. She also loves music, dancing, eating and traveling around the states and internationally. |
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Stacia Munn, MD | Family Medicine
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Dr. Munn grew up in Idaho and graduated from Nampa High School. She graduated from Oregon Health and Sciences University in 2006. Dr. Munn completed her residency training at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in Boise in 2009. She was Chief Resident 2008-2009. Dr. Munn joined the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho as faculty in 2009. Her medical interests include women and children's health, healthcare policy and optimizing electronic medical records and health technology. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family including her endlessly entertaining son, knitting, sewing, riding on her pink cruiser "Betty," playing on FMRI's volleyball and softball teams, camping, fishing, and good food (that she didn't have to cook).
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Alex Reed, PsyD, MPH | Director of Behavioral Science, Mental Health, & Research
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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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Clay Roscoe, MD | HIV/Primary Care Fellowship Director
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Dr. Roscoe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his residency training at FMRI in 2006. Following residency, Dr. Roscoe worked in Namibia, Southern Africa, for the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health as an HIV/TB clinical mentor at the International Training and Education Center on Health. Presently, he is the a member of the FMRI faculty and an HIV specialist and the HIV Primary Care Fellowship director at FMRI’s Wellness Center, Idaho’s only Ryan White grant supported HIV clinic system. Dr. Roscoe is also a TB consultant for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, and clinic director for the Idaho Health District 4 tuberculosis clinic. His professional interests include HIV primary care, tuberculosis, hepatitis C, refugee health, and global health. |
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Kelly Showalter, MD | Pediatrics
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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, MD | Obstetrics & Gynecology
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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. She earned her PharmD Degree at the University of Utah and did a joint fellowship in the Dept of Infectious Disease and the College of Pharmacy in pharmacokinetics prior to starting medical school. After Residency, she spent thirteen 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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Hilary Warren, MD | Pediatrics
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Phyllis You, MD | Family Medicine
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 | | Phyllis's parents immigrated to the States from Taiwan. She was born in Gainesville, Florida but grew up in a small town in the panhandle of Florida. Phyllis attended Vanderbilt University and received a BS degree in Chemistry. Subsequently, Phyllis completed medical school at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. During medical school, she was involved with a public health service mission in the Dominican Republic and was co-founder the USF chapter of Medical Students for Choice. Phyllis is also a recipient of the Gold Humanism Award. She is married and her husband is a small animal veterinarian from Florida. Her hobbies are traveling, fishing, constructing ceramic structures, cycling, hiking, and cooking.
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Family Medicine
Kevin Clifford, MD
Mike Koenig, MD
Peter Kozisek, MD
Heather Quinn, MD
Steve Schneider, MD
Perinatology
Clarence Blea, MD
Michael Koszalka, MD
Richard Lee, MD
Stacy Seyb, MD
Infectious Disease
Sky Blue, MD
Thomas Coffman, MD
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