Boise Residency
Family Medicine Residency of Idaho (FMRI) offers excellent clinical training with superb patient volumes in all clinical areas. The vision of our program is to produce outstanding family physician leaders for their communities. The mission of our program is to train outstanding broad spectrum family medicine physicians to work in under-served and rural areas. To serve the vulnerable populations of Idaho with high quality, affordable care provided in a collaborative work environment.
We believe the heart of healthcare education is service to others. FMRI has an extremely talented faculty that consists of Family Medicine Physicians, Pediatricians, Obstetricians, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Physician Assistants, a Nurse Practitioner and Pharm Ds to create the team environment needed to train a family medicine physician. We are also supported by three excellent training medical centers, a committed state legislature, and the backing of the Idaho Medical Association, the Idaho Hospital Association, the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, and the Ada County Medical Society to ensure superb Family Medicine education. We hope that the information presented here stimulates your interest in our program and that you will want to know more about becoming a part of FMRI.
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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 served as the associate director before becoming the program director in 2013. His passion is helping family medicine residents individualize their training within a broad scope of practice family medicine residency program. He and his wife Marci (a Presbyterian minister) have a son in graduate school and a son who is a senior in college. In his free time he can often be found running the Boise foothills trails in training for his next ultra run.
teaching staff at the David Grant Family Medicine Residency. He completed a faculty development fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill in 2008. Additionally he deployed to Iraq and Haiti. Interests along the way 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 5 amazing kids.
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. She is married with 2 children. In her spare time she loves backpacking, playing the piano, nordic skiing, watching Boston Red Sox games, and her newest sport – curling. Dr. Beach’s curricular interests include hepatology, hepatitis C, and rheumatology.
She loved training at FMRI and was offered her dream job as faculty where she focuses on the inpatient family medicine and critical care rotations. Working with and supporting residents and medical students at this intense time of their training is her favorite part of the job. She loves her clinic home base at Emerald where she cares for a truly global community. Justin works as a chemical engineer at Micron, and together with their daughters Tove and Marit, they can be found hiking in the Idaho wilderness, cooking from their garden, and laughing at the girls’ latest antics.
Carolina for medical school. After a quick consideration of going into Orthopedics, she regained her senses and matched into 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. After joining the faculty at Swedish Family Medicine, Cherry Hill for a short time, she headed down to New Zealand, where she practiced as a GP in a nationalized health care system, traveled as much of the sheep laden countryside as possible, and picked up a wonderful kiwi souvenir, her 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. Her curricular area of interest is the obstetrics experience, inclusive of directing the OB Fellowship. She moved into the Associate Program Director role in February 2017, assisting Dr. Abby Davids and Dr. Justin Glass oversee the educational experience as a whole for the residency. During her free time she enjoys going to the park with her three kids, political disputes with her husband, aerobic exhaustion of many varieties, and knitting anything possible.
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, graduating in 1990. Dr. DeBlieck completed his Family Medicine residency in 1993 at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where he served as chief resident. He joined the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho faculty in 1996. His curricular area is Dermatology. He and his wife Jan have two sons in college. Jan is a dermatologist, and teaches FMRI residents.
Dr. Gerrish is a health curator. She believes in the mission of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, where she graduated from in 2012. To her, being a health curator is to change health disparities in meaningful and progressive ways. In the teaching environment at FMRI, she enjoys mentoring early career physicians, especially those with families. Living and traveling abroad has given Dr. Gerrish a special interest in refugee care, child and maternal health, including obstetrics, and social and global health advocacy.
Dr. Winslow Gerrish is the Director of Behavioral Sciences, Research and Grants at FMRI. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Seattle Pacific University and completed an internship at the VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. Before coming to FMRI, he acted as director of the PTSD clinic at the Boise VAMC and served as faculty in their Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education. Dr. Gerrish grew up the son of a rural, full-spectrum, family doc in a small dairy town in Washington State. This upbringing laid the foundation of his life-long passion for family medicine and caring for the underserved.
1987 and as you can see from this devilishly handsome picture, he is a fun loving and easy going gentleman that occasionally needs to straighten his tie. His responsibilities include teaching residents, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students from Idaho State University, pharmacology and therapeutics in the hospital and ambulatory care setting. He loves coming to work every day because of the great people.
Dr. Jackson is a native Idahoan. He was raised on a dairy farm in Ada County. He graduated from Meridian High School in 1998 and received a BA in Latin American Studies from Stanford University in 2003. He entered the University of Washington School of Medicine as a WWAMI student and graduated in 2008. He was a resident and chief resident at FMRI from 2008-2011.
Center in San Antonio. She completed her fellowship in health psychology in primary care at Michigan State University where she met her husband, Derek. Their son, Cameron, loves baseball and basketball.
Dr. McCormick was born and raised in Nampa, Idaho. She attended undergrad at the University of Idaho where she met and married a handsome redhead named Sean. While pursuing a degree in Biological Sciences, she worked for the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival thus instilling in her a love of jazz, improv, chaos and rhythm. She attended medical school at Western University of Health Sciences where she earned a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. While completing her training, she was awarded the opportunity to pursue a pre-doctoral teaching fellowship in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. She is a firm believer in the core tenants of Osteopathic medicine including the body’s innate ability to heal itself and that a person is not a disease but a unit of body, mind and spirit.
During her time in medical school she and her husband, and eventually their newborn daughter, traveled and lived throughout the pacific coast. They were finally able to return to Boise to start and complete her residency in Family Medicine. She now has her dream job working part time at a small clinic in Kuna, Idaho surrounded by the very best co-workers and staff. Additionally, she is an assistant professor at the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine and sits on the board of the Idaho Osteopathic Physician’s Association. In her “free” time, she is home playing dress up, working in the garden, chasing chickens, or out exploring Boise with her family.
different states and countries. She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Africa, where she discovered her love of medicine and public health. She graduated with an MD/MPHTM from Tulane University in New Orleans, and then completed residency at FMRI, where she is now faculty. Together with her husband, she likes to enjoy the variety of outdoor adventures available in Idaho.
out on a new adventure to Miami, Florida to complete medical school. Despite the lures of the Florida Keys and warm water she returned to the mountain west to complete residency at FMRI and be closer to the mountains and outdoors. In Boise she took up whitewater kayaking and has now traveled around the world (as well as the state of Idaho) to enjoy this extreme sport, even living in New Zealand for awhile. She enjoys the full scope of practice at the residency as well as the opportunity to teach and learn from the great residents we have. When not kayaking or working, she likes to mountain bike, hike, snowboard, or sit in an Idaho hotspring and enjoy the scenery.
Dr. Roop is an Idaho native who has lived and worked all over this beautiful state. She attended University of Washington School of Medicine and completed her residency training here at that Family Medicine Residency of Idaho. She joined the residency as clinical faculty in 2019.
outdoors. After graduating from University of Nevada SOM in 2003 and following his residency completion in 2006 from Idaho State University Family Medicine Residency, he ventured to the Flathead Lake area of Montana. There he worked for a rural hospital doing full spectrum family medicine for the next 10 years. He participated in several organizations, including President of the Montana Academy of Family Physicians, board member of Montana Medical Association, and he served one year on Montana State Governor’s Council on Healthcare Innovation. With a desire to share his experiences and move closer to family, he joined FMRI in the fall 2016. Here he is continuing his full spectrum practice by teaching new family physicians to broaden their skills and confidence. He is helping with the rural programs and developing a wilderness medicine curriculum. Free time is one of his favorite things and he can be found hiking the hills with his two boys, looking for mountains to climb and photos to take, sitting with a good book, contemplating the stars, laughing often and has been known to dabble in zymurgy.
Michael grew up in Benson, Minnesota, went to undergraduate at the University of Minnesota Duluth for Chemical Engineering. After a few years of working as a chemical engineer in the food industry. During his time working as an engineer he realized he wanted to take his love of science and joy of problem solving and apply his skills to helping others with their medical needs. He then returned to Minnesota to attend medical school at the University of Minnesota with is foundational years spent in at the Duluth campus where there is a focus on rural and family medicine. Michael has a passion for comprehensive family medicine but has a focus on chronic medical management and office base procedures. His passions outside of medicine include the outdoor, hiking, fishing, gardening and cooking.
from Missouri. She grew up in Springfield, MO and attended college at William Jewell in Liberty, MO. During college she studied abroad in Athens, Greece where she got involved with a mobile health unit that ran a needle exchange program. This experience sparked her interest in public health and she went on to earn her Master in Public Health with a concentration in international health at Boston University. During that time, she was able to spend 6 months in the Philippines to complete a practicum project addressing inhalant use among street children in Manila. After finishing her MPH, she took off to Lusaka, Zambia where she worked for 3 years on projects in preventing mother to child transmission of HIV and syphilis and on a pneumonia etiology case-control study. She returned to MO to attend med school at Mizzou and is excited to combine her interests in public health and medicine in a career in Family Medicine. She hopes to be an advocate for social justice in medicine and plans to pursue a career working with underserved populations. Outside of medicine, she enjoys going to concerts, biking on the trail, running, traveling and a good bit of karaoke. She’s super excited to get to know Boise and join the FMRI family.
Caroline grew up in Seattle, Washington, but she comes to Boise after 10 years spent on the East Coast. She attended Boston College, where she majored in International Studies. With a particular interest in global heath and health policy, she then moved down to Manhattan to go to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. During medical school, she spent time in Uganda, Rwanda, Nepal, Senegal, and Guatemala doing health research. This encouraged her to pursue broad-spectrum family medicine training with an emphasis on underserved communities, social justice, and physician activism. As well, she has a particular interest in reproductive health.
Emily Jack was born and raised just four hours away from her new home in Boise in small-town Eastern Oregon. She attended Oregon State University (Go Beavs!) and spent her summers doing genetics research and working on her family’s cattle and hay ranch. She graduated from Oregon Health and Science University with her medical degree in 2019 and made the long journey east on I84 to settle in the Treasure Valley for residency.
I am thrilled to flourish into a rural family physician alongside my partner, and fellow co-resident Joseph Pendleton. We are so happy to have couple’s matched into a program that provides such excellent, comprehensive training. I am from all over (Idaho will be state #8 for me), but have spent the last 15 years divided between Washington, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. I attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where I majored in Biology and Spanish and met Joe through a competitive running club. While in college, I worked with the public health department and learned about the importance of the social determinants of health. Shadowing at a federally qualified health center (FQHC), I was inspired by how providers tackled these factors through comprehensive care. Other highlights of my undergrad include spending six months abroad in Lima, Peru, where I took classes at a Peruvian university. I learned about international medicine through volunteering at a children’s hospital and explored the beauty of Peru’s diverse ecosystems.
Erin was born and raised in the beautiful city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. She eventually left to move two hours north to Fort Collins and attend Colorado State University. While there, she received a degree in biochemistry and played more rugby than was probably healthy. She returned to Colorado Springs to work as a chemist at a contract laboratory for FDA/EPA studies and then at the Colorado Springs Fire Department in the Community and Public Health Division, which sparked her love for community medicine and primary care. She finally left Colorado for the flatlands of Iowa City, where she attended medical school at the University of Iowa. While there, she developed a passion for serving vulnerable populations and discovering ways to alleviate the effects of health inequities on her patients. Within Family Medicine she is most passionate about women’s health, family planning, refugee health and advocacy with a side interest in sports medicine.
Amanda Aman (pronounced like “Awh-man”) was born in Wiesbaden, Germany while her parents were abroad serving in the Air Force. Her family moved to the Boise area when she was in kindergarten and eventually settled down in Emmett, Idaho. She attended Boise State University (Go Broncos!) for undergrad where she studied Biology. She knew she wanted to become a doctor at a young age after her rural family physician provided her efficient, well-rounded care that ultimately saved her life. She attended the University of Washington for medical school and was able to participate in the WWAMI program. During those four years she was able to learn more about the medical needs of Idaho and worked within local communities. Her special interests include women’s and children’s health, obstetrics/reproductive health, LGTBQ and community leadership. 
Angela was born in Texas and led a nomadic life throughout her childhood. She completed her undergraduate studies in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Go Heels!) with a desire to serve vulnerable populations. After working for several years in Raleigh, North Carolina on behalf of the NC Medicaid program, she married her high school sweetheart and moved to her husband’s hometown of Bozeman, Montana to work at the MT Office of Rural Health/AHEC. Her travels throughout rural Montana and her work with the critical access hospitals led her to complete a post-baccalaureate pre-medical program with the intention of becoming a rural, primary care physician. She attended the University of Washington’s Montana WWAMI program and while she loved all of her clinical rotations, she felt most fulfilled and excited about family medicine. Her professional interests are in rural/underserved populations, behavioral health, reproductive health, and advocacy. She is thrilled to join the FMRI community!
Howdy, I’m Zara! Growing up in Fort Worth, TX, my first introduction to medicine was through my grandfather, who was also a Family Physician. I was struck by the way he made a bustling metropolis feel like a small-town neighborhood, and it was his interactions with his patients that initially inspired me to pursue a career in medicine. Leaving the Lone Star State for some cooler weather, I journeyed East to the coast of Maine for undergrad where I attended Bowdoin College, studying Biochemistry and Sociology.
Jeff was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While playing baseball in college, he attended school in Arizona and Georgia completing a Bachelors degree in Chemistry. He lived in Philadelphia for a year while his wife, Whitney, completed her training as a Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Critical Care. They moved to the Fort Worth area where they had three children Dean, Conway, and Luella. Jeff completed his Masters in Anatomy and Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (TCOM). Jeff has been visiting Idaho since he was little and was excited to find broad spectrum Family Medicine training in the area he has always wanted to live. His mother is from the Boise area and his dad is from Eastern Idaho, and he is excited to be living closer to family. He enjoys river rafting, hiking, fishing and spending time with his family.
Born and raised in a small town in Illinois, Rachel’s childhood experiences in Girl Scouting led her on many adventures that taught her the joy of oceans, mountains, and service to others. With a longtime dream of becoming a Doctors without Borders physician, she attended the University of Notre Dame where she studied biochemistry with a minor in peace studies. She had the good fortune to participate in some truly community-based service experiences, which opened her eyes to the impact of social determinants on patient’s lives, and sparked a passion for primary care. Taking some time to not be in school after undergrad, she joined the Peace Corps, where she spent two years as a health education volunteer in rural Cambodia. Though resources at the health center were minimal, the power of community was incredible, and the experience solidified a desire to become a full spectrum, community-based family doctor! This goal in hand, she chose to attend ATSU SOMA in order to train in FQHCs across the northwest (and maybe to have an excuse to live in the vegan-donut-wonderland that is Portland Oregon).
Paige grew up in San Diego, California. Receiving an academic scholarship, she moved to Missoula to attend University of Montana, where she fell in love with her husband and the Northwest. She majored in Sociology with an emphasis in Inequality and Social Justice, conducting research at the local homeless shelter, Head Start, and WIC programs. After college, she served at Missoula Food Bank as an AmeriCorps VISTA, working on community education, coalition building, and research on food insecurity.
Kelsey grew up in Toutle, WA – a tiny logging town in the foothills of Mt. St. Helens. Playing volleyball, basketball, and softball started her interest in sports medicine. She graduated from University of Washington with a degree in biology and returned to her hometown to work with elementary students as an AmeriCorps Washington Reading Corps member. It was this experience that sparked the interest in primary care, especially rural family practice. Kelsey attended University of Washington School of Medicine as a TRUST Scholar (Targeted Rural UnderServed Track). Within family medicine Kelsey is passionate about community leadership, rural health, female reproduction, addiction, and mental health. She is excited to join the FMRI family and get the fantastic, broad-spectrum training that FMRI is known for.
Kevin was born and raised in Spokane Washington. Interested in medicine from an early age, he set off as a pre-med to Carroll College in Helena, Montana. There, his work as a home health aide, and experiences observing family physicians in Eureka, Montana piqued his interest in a career in rural family medicine. After graduating with a degree in Biology, he returned to Spokane where he worked as an emergency room technician, confirming his desire to start the medical school journey. He was fortunate to remain in the Spokane area for most of his medical school years at the University of Washington. He was a TRUST Scholar (Targeted Rural Underserved Track), with longitudinal work in the rural community of Newport, Washington. For residency, he left his beloved hometown for Boise. He was drawn to FMRI by the rigorous, full-spectrum training and collegial atmosphere, as well as Idaho’s abundant opportunities for outdoor recreation. He is particularly interested in the fields of mental health, addiction, obstetrics, and preventative medicine.
Holly Taniguchi Boise Residncy Program Coordinator P: (208) 954-8740 
