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Ryan Melvin, DO | Site Director
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Dr. Melvin attended medical school at Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in Glendale, Arizona. He completed his residency at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho. Dr. Melvin recently joined the faculty at St. Luke's Clinic - Physician Center September 2008. He is certified by the American Academy of Family Physicians. |
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Rick Sandison, MD |Assistant Site Director
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Dr. Sandison graduated from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in 1989. He completed his internship in Family Medicine and Community Health at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where he was awarded “First Year Resident of the Year.” Following internship he worked in Africa for one year in a Presbyterian Church of East Africa Mission Hospital in Chogoria, Kenya. He returned to complete his Family Medicine residency at the University of Iowa. He has worked as a Family Physician in Twin Falls, Idaho continuously since 1993, with the exception of a sabbatical in 2008 and 2009, during which time he worked in a mission clinic in Ecuador. He has also lived in Mexico and Costa Rica. He was a cofounder of the Mustard Tree Free Medical Clinic in Twin Falls. His hobbies include running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, snowboarding, backpacking, and reading. He has ridden his bicycle across the United States. His most prominent fitness interest is ultra endurance sports with events completed including the Vermont 100-Mile Endurance Run, the Grand Teton 100-Mile Endurance Run, and the Big Horn 100-Mile Endurance Run. |
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Jim Irwin, MD | Family Medicine
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Jim Irwin graduated from the University of Utah in 1980 and did his residency in Family Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho in Boise. He has served as an auxiliary faculty member with the University of Washington since 1983 and a Clinical Faculty member with Idaho State University for many years. He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor with the University of Washington and Director of the Continuity Clinic for the Magic Valley Rural Training Track in Jerome Idaho. He is a recent recipient of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho Alumni Community Service Award. Dr. Irwin is also Jerome Citizen of the Year for 2010. He maintains a busy office practice in Jerome as well as serving as a Medical Consultant for the Regional Child Development Center. Dr. Irwin loves the full spectrum of family medicine—from obstetrics and babies through complicated internal medicine and into old age. He is especially interested in evidence based medicine, including alternative therapies to the optimal care of each individual. Dr. Irwin is actively involved in keeping our environment healthy. He has been instrumental in organizing cleanup for the Snake River Canyon between Centennial Park and Pillar Falls for the past 15 years. He has helped numerous Boy Scouts achieve their Eagle Scout award through involvement with cleanup efforts and other projects such as wood duck boxes. He and his wife, Lorna, have been married for more than 36 years and have 3 children, a profoundly deaf daughter in graduate school and 2 sons completing college. His non-medical interests include hiking, hunting, fly fishing, photography, scuba diving, and playing with his “gorgeous” mules. He was recently chosen as the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians’ Physician of the Year for 2011. |
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Joshua Kern, MD | Family Medicine
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Dr. Joshua Kern graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2005. He did his residency training at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho and finished in 2008, where he was one of the chief residents from 2007-2008. He picked to moved to Jerome to start his practice because he realized he dislikes traffic, he ended up traveling to the wild places many weekends and rarely utilized the urban necessitites we are told we all need. He enjoys running, biking, hiking, backpacking, wine, cheese, reading, and church. |
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