Abby Davids, MD, MPH, AAHIVS (she/her)
Program Director
Born and raised in a small town in Ohio, Dr. Davids is a Buckeye at heart. She has a background in public health and social justice, and she graduated from The Ohio State University with a dual MD/MPH in 2011. She subsequently completed family medicine residency at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center near Boston, and then HIV fellowship at Full Circle Health.
Dr. Davids joined the FMRI Boise faculty in 2015, as a broad spectrum family doc who loves to work with and teach residents in all settings including inpatient, outpatient, and OB. Her clinical expertise lies in the care of newly arrived migrants and refugees, global medicine, and the intersection of infectious disease and primary care. She is committed to providing culturally humble and trauma informed care. Based in the Emerald Clinic, she staffs the new arrivals, HIV, viral hepatitis, and TB specialty clinics, maintains AAHIVM accreditation as an HIV Specialist, and serves on the expert panel for ECHO Idaho’s Viral Hepatitis and Liver Care series. She also leads the Global Medicine Training Track with Margaret Mortimer.
Dr. Davids was the Associate Program Director from 2019-2023, and then became the Program Director in 2023, as Dr. Justin Glass transitioned into an educational faculty position. She also served as the HIV & Viral Hepatitis fellowship director from 2016-2024.
Dr. Davids cares deeply about healthcare as a human right, immigration advocacy, equity and inclusion, planetary and climate health, reproductive justice, gender affirming care, and continuity OB care. She delights in the beauty and power of microbes and will impart her love of syphilis to anyone willing to listen! She also loves to help residents find and pursue their passions; to celebrate the joy, privilege, and vitality that comes from a career in family medicine; and to work alongside her incredible colleagues every day.
Dr. Davids speaks English and Spanish. Outside of the office she is happiest on a mountain trail, exploring Idaho’s beautiful outdoor spaces with her dog, Juniper.
Suzanne Allen, MD
Family Medicine
Vice Dean, Academic, Rural & Regional Affairs, UW SOM
As the Vice Dean for Academic, Rural and Regional Affairs at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM), Dr. Allen works broadly across academic affairs and regional affairs to enhance the excellence of medical education for the UWSOM and the five-state WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) region. 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, she joined the Full Circle Health faculty. She enjoys reading, hiking, biking, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.
Marvin Alviso, MD, AAHIVS
Family Medicine
HIV & Viral Hepatitis Fellowship Director
Dr. Alviso was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. In 2008, he moved to Saginaw, Michigan, where he completed his Family Medicine residency at Synergy Medical Education Alliance.
Dr. Alviso became a board-certified Family Physician in 2010 and subsequently relocated to Boise, Idaho, to complete a fourth-year postgraduate fellowship in HIV Primary Care at Full Circle Health. He earned his AAHIVM certification in 2011, which he continues to maintain.
Currently, Dr. Alviso provides comprehensive HIV primary care. He is also dedicated to delivering inclusive primary care for the LGBTQ+ community, with a particular focus on HIV prevention and hormonal therapy for transgender patients.
Elizabeth (Liz) Atnip, MD (she/her)
Associate Program Director
Rural Medicine Fellowship Director
Dr. Atnip was born and raised in Hershey, Pennsylvania (sweetest place on earth!). She attended Penn State University for both undergraduate and medical school, and then headed west for broad spectrum residency training at Full Circle Health. During her time here, she fell in love with teaching and Boise, so decided to stay on as faculty after graduating in 2018. She completed a 2 year remote fellowship in Integrative Medicine in 2020 and additionally has training in acupuncture. Her top joys in medicine are inpatient medicine/ICU, OB, and lifestyle medicine. Outside of work she enjoys playing music, reading, running, cooking, gardening, and spending as much time as possible with her husband, Josh, and her two boys.
Justin Bailey, MD
Family Medicine
Procedural Institute Director
Dr. Bailey currently teaches full spectrum family medicine for the Family Medicine Residency. He is a graduate of The Medical College of Wisconsin, Eglin Air Force Base Family Medicine Residency (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) and a teaching faculty development fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill. While active duty Air Force he taught full spectrum family medicine at David Grant Medical Center and was deployed to Iraq during the gulf war and to Haiti after the earthquake in 2010.
Over the last 11 years he has served as the director of the Procedures Institute at Full Circle Health, leading resident training in any and all procedures (focus on endoscopy, procedural MSK medicine, headache management & skin surgeries). He frequently lectures at national & international conferences for the American Academy of Family Physicians and other primary care groups around GI & procedural related topics and using manual and alternative therapies to treat pain and reduce opioid use. He has published multiple textbook chapters, journal articles and research articles.
Additional interests include hospital medicine, POCUS, health benefits of relationships, and providing care of vulnerable populations. Outside of work Dr. Bailey spends all of his free time running semi-dangerous science experiments with his children, trail running, and constantly justifying the need for more garage band instruments to jam with his rock star wife, Holly, and his 5 amazing kids.
Angela Bangs, MD, MBA, AAHIVS (she/her)
Family Medicine
Dr. Angela Bangs completed her medical education through the University of Washington’s MT WWAMI program and her family medicine residency at Full Circle Health in 2023. She further specialized by completing the HIV/Viral Hepatitis Fellowship at Full Circle Health in 2024. Passionate about providing comprehensive care, Dr. Bangs is dedicated to supporting patients and their families. Her professional interests include advocacy, serving underserved populations, HIV/Viral Hepatitis care, reproductive health, and gender-affirming care.
Mary Barinaga, MD
Family Medicine
Assistant Dean, University of Washington
Dr. Mary Barinaga grew up in a sheep ranching family in Cambridge, Idaho and is a graduate of The College of Idaho and the University of Washington School of Medicine. After completing residency at Full Circle Health in 1998, she spent the next 12 years practicing rural family medicine on the Coeur d’ Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer. In 2010, she returned to Boise as faculty for Full Circle Health and also works as Assistant Dean for Regional Affairs for the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Barinaga is active in organized medicine and is passionate about teaching. When she is not working, you can find Dr. Barinaga with her husband Doug playing in the mountains or rafting Idaho’s whitewater.
Allison Bastian, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
Raymond Clinic Director
Dr. Bastian grew up just north of Dallas, TX. She graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT with a degree in philosophy. She then got a Masters in liberal arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. After completing a post-bacc at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, she went on to medical school at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND, graduating in 2013. After completing residency at Full Circle Health in 2016, she stayed on to join the faculty. She absolutely loves the residency and wants to care for her panel of patients here forever.
Penny Beach, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
Medical Director of Population Health
Dr. Penny 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 Full Circle Health, graduating in 2001. She spent over eight years working with mostly uninsured patients and Spanish-speaking seasonal farm workers in Nampa, Idaho before joining Full Circle Health in 2010.
She is married with two children. In her spare time she loves backpacking, playing the piano, nordic skiing, watching Boston Red Sox games, and travelling. Dr. Beach’s curricular interests include hepatology, hepatitis C, rheumatology, practice management and obstetrics.
Zara Bowden, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
Dr. Zara Bowden, originally from Texas, completed her undergraduate and graduate studies on the East Coast before settling in Idaho. She graduated from Full Circle Health’s Family Medicine Residency in Boise in 2023 and further specialized by completing an OB Fellowship in Surgical Obstetrics at St. Luke’s Health System in 2024. With a strong focus on reproductive health, Dr. Bowden is dedicated to providing comprehensive Family Medicine care to patients of all ages. In her free time, she enjoys exploring Idaho’s breathtaking backcountry.
Kara Cadwallader, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
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 Full Circle Health 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 faculty role, she is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine. Medical interests include women’s health and family planning, behavioral sciences, and academic writing. She enjoys water and snow skiing, cycling, reading fiction and short stories and travel. She has three children.
Chelsea Carlson, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
Dr. Chelsea Carlson grew up in rural Michigan and traveled to the Pacific Northwest for her undergraduate studies in Chemistry and French. She became passionate about rural health delivery and understanding the interactions between gender, health and racism while studying abroad in Mali and working with the Mali Rural Water Project.
She shifted from a future in lab-based work to translational research at Northwestern University and then continued her medical school career there and was able to continue working with global health partners through the student organization NUAID. At Northwestern she was drawn to high-acuity, whole-person care, but it was rotating in her husband’s hometown of Sitka, Alaska that she fell in love with the breadth and depth of family medicine.
She is grateful for her rigorous training in inpatient medicine, critical care, emergency medicine and high-risk OB at Full Circle Health (formerly FMRI) and was based at Emerald clinic where she cared for a truly global community. Upon graduating she joined the faculty with a passion for training residents in inpatient family medicine and critical care. Learning with and supporting residents and medical students at this intense time of their training is her favorite part of the job. She and her husband, Justin, stay busy with three small kids, and can be found hiking in the Idaho wilderness (or enjoying a good playground swing), cooking from their backyard garden, and laughing at the kids’ latest antics.
Ashley Carvalho, MD, MSc (she/her)
Family Medicine
Dr. Ashley Carvalho was born and raised in Boise, ID. She attended the College of Idaho in Caldwell for her undergraduate degree, and completed a Master’s in Public Health and medical school at Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. She has wonderful memories of Ireland, its people, and its stunning beauty (everything you’ve heard is true!). But, there’s no place like home, and she was delighted to return to her home state for residency.
She completed her residency at the Full Circle Health – Caldwell Program, and subsequently undertook a fellowship in HIV and Viral Hepatitis with Full Circle Health in Boise to further her training. She is looking forward to treating patients living with HIV, treatment of Hepatitis C, and LGBTQIA+ health, while practicing full-spectrum family medicine in the inpatient and outpatient settings, and remaining involved in teaching and working with FCH’s amazing residents!.
In her spare time, you’ll find her in the mountains with her husband Alex and two pups, Tucker and Lola. If she’s not there, she’ll be at the Flying M with a strong cappuccino and a good book.
Loren Colson, DO (he/him)
Associate Program Director
Dr. Colson grew up just outside of Portland, Oregon in the town of Lake Oswego. He moved to the Los Angeles area to complete his undergraduate education at Azusa Pacific University. During his undergraduate years, he went on medical missions to India and Bangladesh, and with his newfound interest in global health, attended the University of Southern California where he earned a Masters of Science in Global Medicine. There he met his wife Kristin who now works for the American Heart Association.
Dr. Colson earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. Loren and Kristin then set their sights on returning to the Pacific Northwest.
They moved to Boise, Idaho for residency and couldn’t be happier. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at Full Circle Health in 2018, and was hired as faculty when he graduated. Dr. Colson was a National Health Service Corps scholar and is committed to providing health care to the underserved. He has specific interests in reproductive health, health advocacy, and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. Dr. Colson additionally completed a fellowship through the Physicians for Reproductive Health’s Leadership Training Academy.
In addition to his work at Full Circle Health, Dr. Colson currently serves on the AAFP Commission on Education, is the AAFP’s delegate to the American Medical Association’s Young Physicians Section, is on the board of directors for the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians as well as chair of their Reproductive Health Committee, and is on the board of governors for the Mountain West Regional Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. He practices full spectrum Family Medicine including obstetrics at his home clinic on Emerald Street in Boise. He is also adjunct faculty at the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine where he teaches Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. In what free time remains after all of his medical extra-curriculars, Dr. Colson and his wife can most likely be found biking on the greenbelt, the Boise foothills, or somewhere in the Idaho wilderness with their two German Shepherds.
Jaclyn Cooperrider, MD, CAQ-SM (she/her)
Family Medicine
Sports Medicine Fellowship Director
Dr. Jaclyn Cooperrider was born and raised in Idaho. She graduated from Eagle High School in 2006 and went on to attend the University of Redlands where she played two years of varsity soccer, worked as an athletic training aide, and graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biology. She attended medical school at University of Washington, graduating in 2014 and returned to Idaho to complete a residency in family medicine and a fellowship in sports medicine.
Dr. Cooperrider moved to New Zealand where she worked as a rural locums physician for 1 year, after which she returned to Idaho to begin her current practice. She is also passionate about women’s health. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, running, mountain biking, reading, practicing her Spanish, teaching yoga, and spending time with her family.
- Undergrad: University of Redlands – Redlands, CA
- Medical School: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Residency: Full Circle Health, Boise, ID
- Fellowship: Full Circle Health, Boise, ID
Jennifer Cook, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
OB Fellowship Director
Dr. Jennifer Cook grew up in Boise, Idaho, and then moved east for schooling, attending Johns Hopkins University for undergraduate and Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North 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 Full Circle Health in January of 2009. Her curricular area of interest is the obstetrics experience, inclusive of directing the OB Fellowship. 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.
Tim DeBlieck, MD
Family Medicine
Dr. DeBlieck grew up in Boise, and graduated from the University of Idaho in 1986 with a degree in chemistry. He attended 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 Full Circle Health faculty in 1996. His curricular area is Dermatology. He and his wife Jan have two adult sons. Jan is a dermatologist, and teaches Full Circle Health residents.
Melanie Drake, MD (she/her)
Psychiatry
Originally from Wisconsin, Dr. Melanie Drake earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from “the other UW” (University of Wisconsin – Madison) and traveled west where she worked in data analytics for around a decade. Seeking a career that would feel more meaningful she turned to medicine and graduated from Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, OR for medical school and the University of Washington – Idaho Advanced Clinician Track for psychiatry residency. She is thrilled to be involved in resident training at Full Circle Health. Her interests in psychiatry are broad. She believes formulations of patient concerns are best informed by wide and varied perspectives including from evidence-based medicine, neuroscience, psychology, social theory, and the history of psychiatry. Dr. Drake is an animal lover and enjoys keeping up with friends, spending time outside, yoga and reading.
Jessie Duvall, MD
Pediatrics
Dr. Duvall (she/her/hers) was raised in Idaho and California. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2011, during which time she took a year to work on environmental justice issues. She completed residency at the University of California San Francisco Pediatric Leaders Advancing Health Equity (PLUS) Program, where she was trained to recognize and address structural causes of health inequity. She returned home to Idaho a few years ago and is thrilled to be a part of the Full Circle Health faculty.
Dr. Duvall is most passionate about social justice and health equity and sees advocacy as integral to her clinical practice and educational philosophy. She cares deeply about addressing racism and bias in medicine and is a founding member of the Idaho Health Equity Collective. She loves being an educator and co-directs the Advocacy 101 Course for physician trainees in Idaho. She believes all justice work must be rooted in community and is very involved in a variety of public advocacy activities including efforts to protect gender affirming care and reproductive health in Idaho.
As a provider, Dr. Duvall enjoys caring for young people of all ages, from newborn to young adult. Her clinical interests include adolescent medicine, behavioral health, whole person care, gender affirming care, and mind body medicine (MBM). She respects and honors all chosen identities of her patients and strives to incorporate social and environmental determinants of health into care plans. She meets patients and families where they are and partners with them to get the care that works best for them. Dr. Duvall volunteers as the medical director for programs focused on getting youth outside and has helped run MBM retreats for teens with chronic illness. Her past clinical experiences include faculty in the UCSF Transitional Care unit, outpatient pediatrics at an FQHC with a focus on Adverse Childhood Experiences, pediatric hospital medicine, and pediatric palliative care.
Thrilled to be back in Idaho, Dr. Duvall relishes spending long days with her community, petting all animals she comes across, making a mess in the kitchen, playing board games with her partner, and chasing her little one around. She loves being outside in any way possible – especially backpacking, backcountry skiing, and exploring the rivers.
Jeff Edwards, MD
Family Medicine
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Edwards is originally from Alaska, a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, and a residency at Full Circle Health. He then worked at St. Mary’s Hospital in Cottonwood, Idaho, for 12 years, providing full-spectrum family medicine. From 2005-2012, Dr. Edwards worked in rural Texas and completed a Master’s in Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2013, he joined Doctors Without Borders. He worked in various countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Ukraine, and Afghanistan doing a combination of emergent global health response and public health-related research. Dr. Edwards is actively working with Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization (WHO) for approximately three months per year, doing monitoring/evaluation and public health research.
In 2015, Dr. Edwards joined the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in 2017. He continues to work as an associate at John Hopkins University, teaching intermittently within the Department of International Health.
In 2016, he returned to Full Circle Health to work as faculty. In his spare time, Dr. Edwards enjoys his passions of backcountry skiing, biking, climbing, and traveling.
Andrea Esplin, MD
Family Medicine
Emerald Clinic Director
Dr. Andrea Esplin was born and raised in Idaho. She attended the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, receiving a Bachelors degree in Natural Science Biology with a Minor in Chemistry. She went on to the University of Utah School of Medicine for her medical Doctorate and returned to Idaho for residency at the Full Circle Health, staying on as faculty after completing the residency program. Dr. Esplin currently practices full spectrum family medicine and has a focus on procedural skills and endoscopy.
Joey Florence, MD, CAQ-SM (she/her)
Family Medicine
Joey Florence, MD is an Idahoan, born and raised in Boise. She loves the outdoors, sports and games. Joey went to medical school at the University of Washington. She then completed her family medicine residency here at Full Circle Health. She completed an additional fellowship year of training in sports medicine, at Full Circle Health. Joey is lucky to have a great partner, Jake who is an engineer at Micron.
Sarah Galinato Gerrish, MD (she/they)
Family Medicine
Dr. Sarah Gerrish is a health curator who tries to recognize that health identities are non-binary, intersectional and take time to cultivate. She is committed to the mission of the Full Circle Health, where she graduated in 2012, to address health disparities in meaningful and progressive ways. In this teaching environment, her joy is developing a longitudinal anti-racism health equity curriculum, creating clear pathways for those underrepresented in medicine and helping to create safe and brave spaces for difficult conversations. Another joy is mentoring early career physicians, especially those with marginalized identities, and cultivating the women in medicine interest group for Full Circle Health-Boise.
Living and traveling abroad has given her a special interest in refugee care, child and maternal health including obstetrics, and social and global health advocacy. During medical school at the University of Washington, she had an emphasis in global and underserved health care. As a co-facilitator for the Idaho Health Equity Collective and member of the IAFP Equity Taskforce, she believes advocating for justice, inclusion, equity and cultural humility in all settings is a priority. As a Boise native, she Ioves everything about the outdoors especially trail running, climbing and skiing. Being a physician mom to two sports forward hilarious boys, she understands the importance of mentorship within healthcare. As a partner to an innovative clinical health psychologist, she understands the importance of wellness, empowering others, and making room for joy.
Winslow Gerrish, PhD
Behavioral Science
Dr. Winslow Gerrish is the Director of Behavioral Sciences, Research and Grants at Full Circle Health. 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 Full Circle Health, 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.
If you ask, he will tell you that Family Medicine is the cure to this country’s healthcare woes. And he believes this with true passion. Dr. Gerrish’s primary career goal is to train future Family Physicians to better understand and provide whole-person care to their patients. Dr. Gerrish is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is author to multiple publications and presentations related to Family Medicine and primary care including the book, Interprofessional Education in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Implications from Complex Adaptive Systems Theory. Dr. Gerrish loves being outdoors. When not at work, you will find him with his family trying to get lost in the mountains or engaged in some type of crazy outdoor activity.
Justin Glass, MD (he/him)
Family Medicine
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 Full Circle Health in October 2008. He served as the associate director 2009-2013 and then program director 2013-2023. He moved back into an educational faculty role beginning with the 2023-2024 academic year.
His passion is helping family medicine residents individualize their training within a broad scope of practice family medicine residency program. He works with residents in multiple settings – inpatient floors, ICU, L&D, newborn nursery and clinic attending. He sees his own patients at the Meridian clinic.
Outside of work, he loves being in the Boise foothills and any mountain setting. His wife is a Presbyterian minister in San Francisco and they enjoy meeting at locations across the United States and world. His two kids are grown and working in North Carolina and New Mexico.
Cyndi Hayes, MD
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Hayes grew up in Meridian, Idaho and then attended Stanford University, majoring in Human Biology. She went to the University of Washington School of Medicine as an Idaho WWAMI student and then completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Union Memorial Hospital and Franklin Square Hospital Center in Baltimore, Maryland before returning to Boise. She was in private practice in Meridian before joining the Full Circle Health faculty in 2008. In 2013, she became an OB Hospitalist for St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center where she enjoys teaching the residents and high-risk obstetrics.
Derek Jackson, MD
Family Medicine
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 Full Circle Health from 2008-2011.
After graduating as a Family Physician, Dr. Jackson relocated to South Africa to work at a public hospital in Cape Town, enabling him to cultivate special interests in HIV/TB, emergency medicine, endoscopy, cardiology, and diagnostic dilemmas.
Dr. Jackson now divides his time between South Africa and Idaho. When in his home state, he attends at Full Circle Health. He enjoys teaching and learning from its enthusiastic residents.
Adam Kipp, MD
Family Medicine
Dr. Adam Kipp was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. After stints in New Hampshire, the Dominican Republic, and Georgia for work and school, he returned to Portland for medical school at Oregon Health and Science University. He chose to go into family medicine because of the holistic approach to care that it values. Dr. Kipp came to Full Circle Health to explore the possibility of a career in full spectrum family medicine. Recognizing that this path did not align with his interests and goals, he returned to Full Circle Health after two years at the VA and completed the fellowship in geriatrics in 2018.
Currently Dr. Kipp practices and teaches outpatient family medicine at Full Circle Health with an emphasis on geriatrics. His passions include his family (Kimi and Xavier), skiing, hiking and Buddhist meditation and mindfulness.
Janae Krahn, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
Dr. Janae Krahn grew up in the “Land of Enchantment” and returned there for medical school after a hiatus in Colorado for undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University (and lots of skiing.) She found her love for family and community medicine while back home at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She and her husband (a rural Idaho native) were thrilled to move back to Idaho for further training at Full Circle Health.
After graduating in 2018, she stayed on as faculty where her main interests lie in maternal child health, women’s reproductive health, taking care of her broad spectrum clinic patients, and teaching (and learning from!) residents and medical students. She obtained additional training for lactation certification, and also offers support for mother-baby dyads in clinic as an IBCLC. In her spare time, she enjoys anything and everything the outdoors of Idaho has to offer with her husband, family, and friends.
Christopher Link, MD, AAHIVS
Family Medicine
Dr. Link grew up in Southwest Washington and graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Microbiology. He attended University of Washington School of Medicine (Moscow/Pullman WWAMI) before completing his residency training at Kootenai Clinic Family Medicine Residency in Coeur d’Alene, ID in 2019. He relocated to Boise to complete a post-graduate fellowship in HIV & Viral Hepatitis the following year, subsequently obtaining AAHIVM certification as an HIV specialist.
Dr. Link joined the Full Circle Health faculty following fellowship, primarily providing HIV care at the Wellness Center and treating viral hepatitis through the Idaho Department of Corrections. Outside of medicine, he enjoys reading, recreating outdoors, harassing his two cats and learning about astronomy & space exploration.
Molly McCormick, DO
Family Medicine
Kuna Clinic Director
Dr. Molly 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.
For the residency, she leads the faculty wellness committee and helps coordinate the osteopathic curriculum. Additionally, she occasionally acts as 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 with her three children playing dress up, working in the garden, chasing chickens, or out exploring Boise with her family.
Margaret Mortimer, FNP, MPH
Family Medicine
Margaret Mortimer joined Full Circle Health in 2011. In addition to providing family practice to diverse populations across the lifespan, she is a clinical program coordinator for refugee arrival screening exams. She works at the Emerald office doing new arrival screening exams, family practice, TB and PrEP. She is passionate about providing equitable care to diverse populations from all around the world. Margaret has been providing primary care as a board certified, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), in Idaho, since 1997.
Prior to joining Full Circle Health, work experiences include St Luke’s Internal Medicine, rural health care at a FQHC in Southwestern Idaho and service in the National Health Service Corps. Her education includes degrees of a Masters in Public Health (MPH) , Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), Registered Nurse (RN), Bachelors of Arts (BA) in Philosophy and French. She is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer where she served as a community health educator in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.
Outside of work, she likes to explore the beauty of Idaho by trail running, mountain biking and seeks oceans or lakes to expand her current kiteboarding obsession.
Daniel Mueller, MD (he/him)
Family Medicine
Associate Clinic Director – Raymond Clinic
Dr. Dan Mueller grew up in Western NY state where he completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester in anthropology and history and medical school at SUNY Buffalo. He moved out to Idaho for residency training at FMRI Boise where he also completed a geriatrics fellowship. He now works at the Full Circle Health – Raymond Clinic as associate clinic director and enjoys providing patient care and education around outpatient primary care, geriatrics, evidenced-based medicine, liver disease and treatment of addiction. Outside of clinic he enjoys running, biking, back packing, and camping with his partner, Sadie, in the Boise foothills and surrounding national forests in Idaho.
Heather Nichols, MD
Family Medicine
Dr. Nichols, raised in small town Anaconda, MT but with a sense of adventure, ventured off to Gonzaga University for undergrad to pursue degrees in Biology and Psychology. Afterwards, she set
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 Full Circle Health 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.
Todd Palmer, MD
Family Medicine
Geriatrics Fellowship Director
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 Full Circle Health as family medicine faculty in 1998.
Sandy Mudge, MD, MPH (she/her)
Family Medicine
Dr. Sandy Mudge was raised in Colorado, and then went exploring the world, living in many 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 Full Circle Health, where she is now faculty.
Within the residency, Sandy leads the didactics and advising programs, as well as the resident wellness committee. Her favorite part of her job is supporting and collaborating with her wonderful colleagues, and has become certified in provider coaching to help facilitate those efforts even further. Together with her husband and son, she likes to enjoy the variety of outdoor adventures readily available in Idaho.
Heather Quinn, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
Dr. Heather Quinn joined Full Circle Health in 2009 and works concurrently as Medical Director for Healthwise with committed work in reproductive health care. Dr. Quinn was trained at UCSD and Santa Rosa and has special interests in women’s medicine and vasectomy provision. She loves mountain biking, climbing, and hiking as well as baking cakes.
Melissa Roop, MD (she/her)
Family Medicine
Idaho Street Clinic Director
Dr. Melissa 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 in Family Medicine here at Full Circle Health. She joined the residency as clinical faculty in 2019.
Within medicine, Dr. Roop has a passion for preserving health and joy with preventive care and has special interests in Climate Medicine, women’s health, reproductive care and addiction medicine. She also speaks Spanish and loves working in service to the Hispanic community.
Most of her non-work time is spent outside tending her garden, running local trails and climbing mountains, but she does come indoors to knit and cook plant-based foods. She is married and has one son and two dogs.
Vincent Serio, MD
Family Medicine
Meridian Clinic Director
Dr. Vincent Serio grew up in Virginia, and graduated from the Medical College of Virginia. After he completed residency at Full Circle Health he stayed in Idaho and worked at Terry Reilly Health Services, and Saint Alphonsus Medical Group. In 2004, he became Director of Medical Services at Boise State University Health Services, a position he held for 13 years. During his tenure at Boise State, Dr. Serio also served as the ship’s physician for the Semester at Sea program, traveling to 17 cities in 13 countries on 5 continents in 100 days.
He joined Full Circle Health in 2017 to further his passion for teaching the next generation of family medicine specialists. He now serves as the Clinic Director at Full Circle Health’s Meridian clinic site. His clinical interests include colposcopy, office-based procedures, travel and wilderness medicine, urgent care medicine, and clinic operations.
Nikole Shepherdson, DO
Family Medicine
Osteopathic Education Program Director
Dr. Nikole Shepherdson grew up predominantly in Idaho. She graduated from Boise State University with a degree in Radiological Sciences and worked for several years before attending medical school. She completed her medical school training at Western University of Health Sciences Pacific and returned home to Boise to attend residency at Full Circle Health. She has been faculty since 2012 and has worked to grow the osteopathic education, primary care endoscopy, and in office procedure training for the residents along with practicing primary care in our Meridian office. When Full Circle Health obtained ACGME recognition for Osteopathic training she became the Director of Osteopathic Education in 2019.
When she is not at work, you can find her running around with her two amazing, energetic and hilarious young boys and husband. She can often be found baiting fish hooks, buckling motorcycle, skiing or bike helmets, playing in the water, reading, fly fishing, camping or gardening when time allows.
Hannah Underdahl, WHNP, CNM
Women’s Health
Born in Ontario, Canada and raised on the coast of Maine, Hannah got the mountain bug early in her teens on a backpacking trip to the Sawtooths in Stanley, ID. After college in Colorado and graduate school in Washington, DC, she settled in Boise with her husband. She worked for over three years in a free-standing birth center in downtown Boise before moving into a faculty role at Full Circle Health in 2016. In addition to obstetrics, Hannah specializes in female sexual dysfunction, pelvic pain and menopause.
Hannah stays active in professional organizations and advocacy groups including the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health and the Idaho cluster for the Reproductive Health Access Project. She is married with 3 small children. In her free time, Hannah and her family travel the US and Canada in a Sprinter van her husband built out in 2016. She is an avid trail runner, mountain biker and skier. Thanks to Full Circle Health (and the cultivation of healthy boundaries), she reports a great work-life balance!
John Williams, MD
Family Medicine
While growing up in Pocatello, the young Dr. John Williams took to exploring the mountains of Idaho and fostering a love of the 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 Full Circle Health 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.
Dorothy Buening, MD
Boise Program 2026
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Dr. Dorothy Buening was born and raised in the Mitten state, Michigan (yes, she will use her hand as a map to show you where she’s from)! She grew up playing competitive volleyball which led her to continue playing throughout her undergrad studies at Alma College. While at Alma, she took advantage of the many service-learning opportunities with Alternative Breaks around the country and internationally to Rwanda and Zambia.
After a year of scribing in an Emergency Department and coaching youth volleyball, she headed to Providence, RI to attend Brown Medical School. While at Brown, she fell in love with the breadth and depth of Family Medicine. If she had to narrow it down, her specific interests within Family Medicine include comprehensive reproductive healthcare, underserved medicine, and addiction medicine. Outside of medicine, Dorothy enjoys crafting/DIY projects, hiking, and cooking and sharing meals with friends.
Dorothy is moving West with her partner, Nick. They are excited to explore the thrift shops and outdoor scenes of Boise and the nearby areas (hopefully after adopting a furry friend to accompany them).
Miranda Crouch, MD, PhD
Boise Program 2026
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Miranda Crouch was born and raised in Jamestown, TN, a small town nestled within the beautiful Cumberland Plateau. She completed her undergraduate studies in Microbiology at the University of Tennessee (GO VOLS!). After her undergraduate studies, she completed a 6 month internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she worked with microbial ecologists to further understand the influence of microorganisms on biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments. Given her enjoyment of research and discovery, she moved to Greenville, NC where she completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Her thesis work focused on improving the humoral immune response in obesity through modulation of omega-3 fatty acid lipid mediators.
While she enjoyed research, she continued to actively work with vulnerable and underserved populations throughout her time in graduate school, which further revealed the impact of social determinants on the overall health and well-being of individuals and the community. This led her to attend medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a clinic leader for a student-led rural clinic in Eastern NC. This experience along with her rural upbringing solidified her desire to serve underserved, rural communities as a family physician.
Miranda is super excited to join the Full Circle Health family as a resident physician. Her interests within medicine include rural medicine, addiction medicine, nutrition, women’s health, sports medicine, and preventative medicine (to name a few). She also looks forward to exploring the beautiful state of Idaho! Outside of medicine, Miranda enjoys landscape photography, hiking, travel, trying out new cooking recipes, spending time with loved ones, and wearing TN orange most days of the year while she cheers on her VOLS.
Matthew Finley, MD
Boise Program 2026
University of Kansas School of Medicine
Hey, I’m Matt! I grew up in O’Neill, NE (The Irish capitol of Nebraska) which also happens to be the home of the world’s largest shamrock. However, I went to fact check this as I was writing it, and it seems like we have some competition in New York so we’ll see how that unfolds! After a move to Kansas, I finished up high school in Emporia, KS and did my undergraduate at Sterling College where I studied Human and Molecular Biology. I became more interested in medical school after working with various global health organizations throughout high school and college in Mexico, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic.
I completed my medical training at the University of Kansas School of Medicine where I am grateful to have had opportunities to stay involved in global health and international medicine, and broaden my interests within medicine in general. During med school I participated in clinical rotations in Ireland and Guatemala and continued partnering with health organizations in Mexico working at the US/Mexico border and in addiction rehabilitation centers. My desire to incorporate global health in my future practice was really solidified through courses I took to receive my professional certificate in international medicine and public health through the Institute for International Medicine. These experiences, my med school clinical rotations, and the incredible FM providers I have met along the way have opened my eyes to how incredible Family Medicine is, and how I can tailor my practice to the needs of whatever community I find myself in.
My current clinical interests include global health, sports medicine, emergency/urgent care, and addiction medicine. I am excited to be a part of this awesome program where I know I will be supported and encouraged! I’m also looking forward to adding a lot more snowboarding into my routine!
Justin Han, MD
Boise Program 2026
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Hi there! My name is Justin Han, and I immigrated with my family to the Midwest from China at a young age. I grew up mostly in a suburb near Columbus, OH. As a child, I always told my parents and teachers I wanted to be a doctor. I continued down this road and studied Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University during undergrad. GO BUCKS! The summer after college, I was inspired to work as a medical in Haiti after reading Mountains Beyond Mountains. For three months, Haiti imprinted me with a desire to provide healthcare to communities without access. I must have really enjoyed experiences like going off-roading and enduring endless potholes to deliver Keppra to a 10-year-old at the “village watering hole.”
Soon after, I found myself packing up my Honda CR-V. I drove across the country from Ohio to Portland, Oregon to begin my AmeriCorps service year. I worked for College Possible to support high achieving, low-income high school students apply to college. In Portland, I was also introduced to a variety of new outdoor hobbies including backcountry skiing, rock climbing, backpacking, and trail running.
After my year of service, I packed up my CR-V again to head back to Ohio and attend medical school at Northeast Ohio Medical University. During my clinical rotations, I became interested in becoming a full-spectrum family medicine physician. My clinical interests include obstetrics, addiction medicine, global health, and health care policy. I am beyond excited to have matched at Full Circle Health-Boise and to be moving to Idaho with my wife, Emily, who also enjoys playing in the mountains! As a physician, I hope to help address the lack of healthcare access rural communities face in Idaho and beyond.
Louis Hey, MD
Boise Program 2026
University of Minnesota
Hello! I’m Louis and I was born and raised in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Growing up, I developed a love of the outdoors, and this is where you can still find me in my free time. I enjoy just about any outdoor activity but particularly love fishing and hiking with my dog, Roger.
My path to medicine was a non-traditional one, via nursing school while living in England. I returned to Minnesota and completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota. Before medical school, I worked as a researcher in structural biology and later in a virology lab. During medical school, I did a 9-month longitudinal clerkship in Rural Minnesota, where I fell in love with full-spectrum family medicine. I enjoy the variety of opportunities available to family physicians and the ability to form meaningful, life-long relationships with patients.
When I was looking for a residency program, I wanted a place where I could get robust training in all aspects of family medicine and live somewhere with plenty of outdoor activities to recharge outside of work. Full Circle Health in Boise seemed like a great fit for both of those goals, and I was very impressed during my interview here. I could instantly feel the warm and welcoming atmosphere among the residents, faculty, and staff that I met in Boise. I am so excited to join the residency program and continue my journey towards rural, full-spectrum family medicine with the amazing people at Full Circle Health.
Amy Nguyen, MD
Boise Program 2026
University of Texas at San Antonio
Hi, I’m Amy! My childhood home is in the central plains of Texas, where I grew up in a small town called Marlin. An interesting fact about the town is that it used to be much more popular during the late 19th to mid-20th century with tourists due to having naturally occurring hot mineral water! Several bath houses were built touting its medicinal properties. The popularity of using hot mineral water as a therapy declined with the advent of penicillin and antibiotics after WWII, but there are three remaining active wells at Marlin and the local hospital in the town is still heated via the mineral waters!
I went to high school at Marlin, and attended the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor where I earned a dual degree in Biology and Chemistry. There, I was lucky to be accepted into the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) and, eventually, into the University of Texas at San Antonio for my medical education.
My clinical interests are in rural medicine, broad-spectrum family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, addiction medicine, and more recently, wilderness medicine! Retrospectively, I think I’m just about interested in most fields of medicine, and I’m excited to start my training at Full Circle Health. I loved the rural area I grew up in and the tight knit community there- it’s my goal to be able to come back to a community similar to where I grew up with robust training that allows me to meet their needs.
Outside of medicine, I love to hike, ice-skate, rollerblade, bike, skateboard, draw and read! Having never lived so far north, Leon (my cat) and I look forward to exploring Boise!
Oleksandra Pashchenko, MD
Boise Program 2026
Hello! I’m Sasha. I was born in Ukraine and moved to small town Kansas with my mom and brother when I was 7 years old. During undergrad at Pittsburg State University, I spent a few years working as a scribe, CMA at a nursing home, and learning about global health through international travel to Honduras, Peru, and Kenya.
Medical school took me north to New Hampshire where I fell in love with maple syrup, cheese, pick-your-own farms, and shoveling snow off my car! During medical school I completed my family medicine rotations in Valdez, Alaska and rural Vermont which inspired me to pursue rural full-spectrum family medicine. I’m most excited about POCUS, wilderness medicine, and global health (hoping to go back to Ukraine to help).
I’m very excited to be a part of the Boise family medicine program with my husband/co-resident Tyler Shelby. We both have way too many hobbies, but some of my favorite things to do with my free time are gardening, camping, knitting, sewing, boardgames (and video games!), photography, painting/drawing, and attending renaissance festivals. I also love getting cozy on the couch with a good Netflix show, a fantasy/sci-fi novel, or crossword! My non-medical goal is to one day have a little homestead with some sheep/alpacas so I can make my own yarn. Why buy a sweater when you can spend months and months making yarn and knitting one instead?
Cathleen Rueckeis, MD
Boise Program 2026
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Cath is from Berlin, Germany, where she lived until age 18. She then made a leap across the pond to study in her mother’s home state, North Carolina. There, she completed a degree in quantitative biology and spent many years delving into the molecular underpinnings of trauma in a captivating research lab. Afterwards, she stayed on at UNC for medical school.
Growing up at the intersection of German and American cultures, Cath is fascinated by global diversity. She loves to travel, and spent a semester abroad in Singapore during her undergraduate, exploring around Southeast Asia. During medical school, her curiosity expanded into foreign health care systems and global health needs. She participated in medical work in Honduras and Bolivia, developing a growing passion for low-resource medicine in rural settings.
Outside of medicine, Cath loves to be outdoors, whether trail running, biking, rock climbing, backpacking, kayaking, or playing in the snow with her partner, Patrick. She will never say no to an activity outside! At Boise, she is excited to explore low-resource medicine in rural and wilderness settings, as well as get to know the beauty and people of Idaho and the Northwestern US.
Tyler Shelby, MD, DrPH
Boise Program 2026
Hey folks! My name’s Tyler and I was born and raised in Kansas (plus a few childhood years in Colorado). I went to undergrad at Pittsburg State University where I met my wife Sasha and later moved to New England for medical school. Along the way I became very interested in global health, and spent time working and volunteering in Belize, Paraguay, Kenya, the Dominican Republic and Uganda. I also obtained a PhD in public health during my time in New Haven which got me involved in both international and local work, most of which was centered on contact tracing.
Towards the end of medical school, a few rotations in Kansas and Wyoming convinced me that full-spectrum family medicine was the right direction for me. I’m super excited to train in Boise where I know I’ll be surrounded by the beautiful outdoors and wonderful people and will have plenty of opportunities to pursue my interests in rural and global health.
Outside of medicine, I write/play music (drums, guitar, midi) and dabble a bit in sourdough baking (but frequently forget to feed my starter). I also love to enjoy nature by hiking, biking, camping, fishing, hunting, gardening, and sometimes just sitting on the roof! All that said, I’m also half couch-potato and get a kick out of video games, knitting, writing/reading and making renaissance faire costumes.
Lucy Skinner, MD
Boise Program 2026
Dartmouth Medical School
Hello! I’m Lucy. I grew up in Hanover, NH before venturing to Maine to attend Bowdoin College for undergrad. At Bowdoin I studied mathematics and was on the cross-country running and Nordic ski teams. The skiing in coastal Maine left me wanting a bit more than dust on crust and I moved west after graduating to Bozeman, MT where I worked as a research assistant at the Montana State University College of Nursing. There I conducted research on the nursing and physician workforce and also served as a teaching assistant for a health policy course for nursing students. I moved back home (literally, into my parent’s garage) for medical school at Dartmouth.
I am delighted to join the Full Circle Health family and train to be a full-spectrum rural family medicine physician. In my free time I can be found trail running with my partner Jordan and our super-mutt Wendell, getting lost on my bike, hunting for snow, and cooking without a recipe (with varied success. I am looking forward exploring all that Boise has to offer!
Spencer Wilhelm, DO
Boise Program 2026
Rocky Vista University
Dr. Spencer Wilhelm is originally from Arizona and grew up in a small town called St. Johns. After high school, he spent 2 years in Angola, Africa serving a religious mission. After coming back from his mission, he completed his undergraduate degree in Biology at Brigham Young University Idaho. From there, he then completed medical school at Rocky Vista University.
He boasts of his beautiful family comprised of his wife, 3 kids and a dog. His hobbies include woodworking, scuba/free diving, fly fishing and anything outdoors.
Katie Allan, MD
Boise Program 2027
Hi, I’m Katie! I grew up in Michigan before heading to Maine for undergrad at Colby College, where I studied anthropology and global studies. I spent time abroad in South Africa and India doing public health work, and focused my studies on reproductive health and medical anthropology.
While working in the Bay Area after college, I fell in love with the outdoors and health advocacy, and pursued a master of public policy degree at the University of Michigan. I had an aha moment during my masters and decided to shift towards a career in clinical medicine. After a year-long pre-med postbac outside of Philly, I made my way back to the mountains for medical school in New Hampshire. Back on the east coast, I found my place in medicine through rural primary care rotations in Alaska, Maine, Vermont, and New Mexico. I continued my advocacy efforts by serving on the Vermont Medical Society as a student representative, volunteering at the local free clinic, and supporting a community-based primary care initiative. My interests in medicine include caring for underserved populations and the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as reproductive health, wilderness and austere medicine, addiction medicine, and street medicine.
In my free time, I can usually be found outdoors doing some combination of rock climbing, trail running, road biking, backpacking, or canoeing. My favorite indoor activities include playing music or cooking with friends, reading, and crafts like embroidery and knitting. My partner Skye and I are so excited to explore a new place together, and I can’t wait to join the community at Full Circle Health and train to be a full-spectrum rural family doc!
William Buick, MD
Boise Program 2027
University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
Will grew up New Haven, CT (fact – home of the world’s best pizza) before attending high school in Bethel, Maine. There, he found a love for the outdoors that continued during his undergraduate years at University of Colorado where he studied Spanish Language and International Affairs. Will’s 7-year circuitous path to medical school at University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine included jobs as a barista, waiter, chef, orderly, EMT, and emergency department technician. During this time, he fit in competitive bike racing, hiked the pacific crest trail, biked across the USA, and moved to Vermont to take pre-requisite classes for medical school.
Will furthered his passion for rural health in Vermont by taking part in backcountry rescue and rural EMT/emergency department work. He was immediately drawn to Family Medicine due to its broad spectrum of care and being able to make long term relationships with patients. His other clinical interests include reproductive health, wilderness medicine, palliative care, and addiction medicine.
Outside of medicine, Will enjoys running, biking, and backcountry skiing with his trusty four-legged adventure partner, Arlo. Other pursuits include a healthy obsession with making pottery and an annual attempt at gardening. He and his partner are excited to become part of the Boise community and explore all Idaho has to offer.
Kassie Bull, MD
Boise Program 2027
University of Washington School of Medicine – Idaho WWAMI Program
Hello! My name is Kassie and I’m from Meridian, ID. My love for medicine first began in the classrooms of Meridian High School where I participated in their sports medicine program and where I first learned human anatomy and biology. From there, I attended Boise State University for undergrad. While working towards a degree in Health Science Studies, my love for the sciences grew even more. I also met my wonderful husband Matt along the way. After graduating, I worked as a Certified Ophthalmic Assistant before pursuing a second degree in Medical Laboratory Science from Idaho State University. I had a wonderful experience working in the lab as a Generalist, but my love for patient care was ultimately the driving force towards my end goal of medical school.
I completed medical training at the University of Washington through the Idaho WWAMI program. By spending many of my clinical rotations in smaller communities, I was able to further explore my interests in rural medicine and healthcare in underserved communities. Some of my other professional interests include wilderness medicine, healthcare advocacy, women’s health, addiction medicine, and sports medicine. I chose family medicine to provide full spectrum care to patients while helping them achieve their health goals.
Outside of medicine, I can be found outdoors no matter the season! Backpacking, snowboarding, golfing, hiking, and white-water rafting are a few of my favorite hobbies. I am also an avid traveler and love to explore new places and try new food. I am thrilled to be returning to my home community in Boise for residency.
Bridget Bunda, MD, MPH
Boise Program 2027
Tulane University School of Medicine
Dr. Bridget Bunda was born in New York City and spent time between New York and Connecticut during her childhood. For college, she headed up the coast to Boston, MA, to study Health Science at Northeastern University. During her time at Northeastern, she found her love of Public Health, including health education and HIV care and prevention. During two gap years between undergrad and medical school, she worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital in a research group focused on improving care and prevention of HIV in both the United States and South Africa.
In 2020, Dr. Bunda began medical school at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. While at Tulane, she spent time working with a community-based HIV testing group and taking public health classes to obtain her Master’s in Epidemiology. During her third year, a 7-week rotation in Nome, Alaska, confirmed Family Medicine was the specialty for her. What excites her most about Family Medicine is the ability to work with patients across the spectrums of age and disease severity, all the while integrating principles of primary care, prevention, and health education.
Dr. Bunda is thrilled to be joining Full Circle Health and to start her training in Family Medicine in beautiful Boise. The opportunity to learn Family Medicine in a program that focuses on rigorous, full spectrum, clinical training made FCH her top choice! In her free time, she looks forward to exploring all the natural beauty Idaho has to offer and hopes to improve on her novice snowboarding skills.
Rory Cole, MD
Boise Program 2027
University of Washington School of Medicine – Idaho WWAMI program
Hi Everyone! My name is Rory Cole and I was born and raised in Hailey, Idaho. I am really excited to be an Idaho family med doc! After growing up in Idaho, I moved to Baltimore, MD, where I went to Johns Hopkins University for college. I majored in Materials Science and Engineering and played college basketball there – Go Hop! Afterwards, I spent a year in LA working as a medical assistant in a primary care clinic. When it came time for medical school, I knew I wanted to be closer to home and was super excited to go to the University of Washington Idaho-WWAMI program where I was able to participate in their rural training program. During medical school I was able to spend time coaching girls basketball, doing reproductive health and gender affirming care advocacy, and fly fishing! My interests in family medicine include OB, sports medicine, LGBTQ+ care, underserved medicine, and healthcare advocacy.
When I’m not in the hospital or clinic, you can find me hiking with my cartoon dogs (Arlo and Bowie), riding my mountain bike (slowly!), backpacking, fly fishing, or playing basketball with my partner Lexie.
Emma Fitzsimmons, MD
Boise Program 2027
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hello! I’m Emma and I hail from small-town Vermont. I grew up playing in the mountains of New England and that love, combined with a curiosity for new languages, cultures, and cuisines, resulted in a decade of intertwined travels and educational experiences. I’ve had the privilege of calling rural France, Argentine Patagonia, the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest “home” at one point or another. Wherever there are inspiring landscapes, warm people, and cold winters seem to fit the bill.
After graduating from the University of Vermont with a degree in Global Studies, I made my way to Seattle, Washington. There, I worked for the University of Washington in socio-clinical research, focusing on improvements in HIV care and social drivers of health. My phenomenal patients sparked my interest in clinical medicine and the ensuing pivot to a career as a physician. I attended the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire where I solidified my interest in longitudinal patient relationships and primary care and discovered new loves like obstetrics, critical care, palliative medicine, and so much more.
Outside of medicine I love to ski, run, backpack, write, putz in my garden, and host ridiculously opulent potlucks. I am overjoyed to be joining the FCH – Boise community to train as a true full-spectrum Family Physician!
Jesse Klejka, MD
Boise Program 2027
University of Washington School of Medicine
Hi, my name is Jesse Klejka and I was born in Bethel Alaska, colloquially known by some as the Paris of the Kuskokwim. I grew up playing on the tundra and mushing sled dogs in the winter before heading off to University of Alaska Fairbanks for a degree in molecular biology. Between undergrad and medical school I worked jobs in sea ice research and later in my hometown’s office of environmental health and engineering, where I spent time testing water for bacterial contamination, helping with rabies vaccinations and prepping sanitation for remote Alaskan villages without access to home piped water during the beginnings of the covid pandemic.
I attended University of Washington School of medicine, planning on going into family medicine to serve my home community; during my training, I got the opportunities to do a rural longitudinal rotation in Soldotna Alaska, as well as work in Anchorage at the Native health center, that solidified my plans to return to rural Alaska.
My interests in medicine include include Obgyn, preventative medicine, comprehensive reproductive care, IHS/underserved populations and addiction medicine. I’m excited to train in the Boise program, which has sent many talented physicians to my hometown, as well as its focus on full spectrum care. Outside of medicine my favorite books are scifi/fantasy/mystery and I love to trail run solo and with friends, hike, creative writing and baking treats for others.
Michael Knox, MD
Boise Program 2027
Michigan State – College of Human Medicine
Hi there! My name is Michael – I have spent most of my life in Grand Rapids, Michigan and I am excited to now call Boise my home! I graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014 with a degree in biochemistry, then took a few years off to “figure things out.” I worked at a restaurant, helped develop a startup medical scribe company, and was a psychiatric technician.
Through this time, I developed my passion for intentional self-wellness. The growth it brought sparked my vision to bring this attention to one’s physical, mental, and social health to my community as a physician.
I discovered that what I applied to myself, and what my vision is to bring to my future patients, was already in motion in the form of Lifestyle Medicine. I worked extensively throughout my medical school career at Michigan State CHM to build LM electives and present research at the ACLM conferences. The mission of my career is to bring this approach to primary care to the marginalized communities who need it most. To prevent disease, I first want to learn how to manage sick to the best of my ability. This combined with my love for the mountains is what brought me to Full Circle Health Boise.
I love to backpack, ski, run, eat and cook, drink coffee, and sit around a fire!
Jamie O’Neill, MD
Boise Program 2027
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Hi there! My name is Jamie, and I grew up in Fox Point, Wisconsin – a suburb of Milwaukee along Lake Michigan. I was a very active kid and spent most of my time between sports, friends, and family. For college, I went to Georgetown University where I studied healthcare management and policy and worked at a student-run bodega. After undergrad, I was lucky enough to enter the field of global health and I worked for Partners In Health for several years. Through this work, I lived in Boston, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. I loved exploring new places and supporting healthcare delivery in under-resourced places. I also came to realize that direct patient care is what truly fuels me, and I then started down the path of becoming a physician.
Between working abroad and starting medical school, I lived in Vermont and eastern Oregon, got married, became a yoga teacher, and traveled across Mexico, Ecuador, and the Western U.S. via bicycle. I returned to my home state to attend the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health for medical school. During medical school, my love for primary care only increased as I got to explore the many facets of modern medicine. I am passionate about preventive medicine, women’s health, and lifestyle medicine. I have two young sons and when I’m not studying or working, I can be found running around outside with my family.
Araminta Ray, MD, MPH
Boise Program 2027
East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine
Minta grew up in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains in the heart of Appalachia and is one of those people who knew she was going to become a healer from a very young age. She discovered her passion for working alongside the local community to address health disparities during her college years in Nashville, TN, graduating in 2018 with a degree in Medicine, Health and Society from Vanderbilt University. Minta’s passion for caring for the underserved led her directly to a career in primary care.
Before starting medical school at East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine, she hiked 2,190.9 miles from Maine to Georgia on the Appalachian Trail as a chaplain and grew into her trail name: Blueberry, after her favorite blue hat and the delicious berries that have the audacity to grow and thrive above the tree line. Minta even managed to squeeze in a 2,800 mile hike from Mexico to Canada on the Continental Divide Trail during her medical school breaks in 2022 and 2023. She looks forward to integrating her deep connection to nature into patient care as well as a less dense grizzly bear population in Boise.
Within the world of medicine, Minta is passionate about health justice and currently serves as a student delegate to the Congress of Delegates with the American Academy of Family Physicians. She has also completed her Masters in Public Health with a focus on epidemiology to better understand the data that informs policy decisions. Her particular advocacy interests include reproductive healthcare, LGBT healthcare, and rural medical access. She is excited to dive into her clinical interests of full spectrum OB/reproductive healthcare, addiction medicine, and wilderness/rural medicine while at FCH. Minta plays just as hard as she works and if she’s not at the hospital, you can find her clearing her head in the mountains and satisfying her desire for “type 2 fun.” The current rotation includes whitewater kayaking, open water swimming, and teaching alpine skiing in Utah’s Wasatch range. She also enjoys studying classical ballet, piano and cooking delicious vegan meals (which will hopefully feature a wide variety of Idaho potatoes).
Kierney Ross, MD
Boise Program 2027
University of Washington School of Medicine – Montana WWAMI Program
Hello I’m Kierney! I am a Montana native, born and raised in Billings. I grew up on the outskirts of the largest town in the state which meant I spent a lot of time around farmers’ fields and cattle ranches while still attending a high school with 2,000 students. By the end of high school, I was longing for more access to the mountains so I went as far west as I could while still staying in state for college which landed me at the University of Montana (UM) where I got a degree in exercise science. During my second year at UM, I enjoyed my anatomy and physiology class so much I became a teaching assistant the following year and decided to pursue medicine so I could deepen my knowledge of human physiology and apply it to improving patients’ health. After getting my degree, I worked in the operating room for 2 years at St. Pat’s Hospital in Missoula where I met my now husband.
My pursuit of medicine brought me to the University of Washington where I had the opportunity to train and volunteer in rural and underserved communities as part of the WWAMI program. My ultimate goal is to return to the Big Sky state and use my passion for reproductive care, women’s health and LGBTQ+ care to fill gaps in rural communities.
Outside of medicine, I love being active and enjoy the outdoors whether its hiking, backpacking, hunting for huckleberries in the summer or playing some sort of sport with my husband and our friends. I also love gardening, cooking, board games and was recently gifted sourdough starter so I have been trying my hand at baking! I also have a thing for flowers so at some point in the future, I want to learn how to grow cut flowers so I can gift friends and family with beautiful bouquets!
Olivia Wiese, MD
Boise Program 2027
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Hi everybody! My name is Olivia G Wiese and I grew up in a small town in Southern Michigan. I attended college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where I studied Neuroscience and Russian. While I was there I played mellophone for the Michigan Marching Band. Go Blue! After graduation I worked at the University of Michigan in the psychology department as a lab manager. My research focused on multisensory perception and synesthesia. Here, I discovered a love of working with patients. I also started volunteering with hospice during this time which solidified my commitment to serving vulnerable populations.
I attended medical school at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. I spent my first two years of medical school in Grand Rapids, Michigan and then moved to the Upper Peninsula as part of a Rural Physicians Program. Here, I discovered my passion for rural medicine – especially full spectrum family medicine. My current interests are women’s health, adolescent medicine, and pain and palliative care.
Outside of medicine I love to knit and enjoy the outdoors. I am always searching for new exciting yarns and interesting projects to cast on! My husband and I are so excited to move to Idaho and explore the beautiful wilderness. When we aren’t hiking or climbing we can be found watching silly TV shows and relaxing on the couch with our cat Edith.
Maddie Bernardo, MD
Boise Program 2028
University of Utah School of Medicine
Hey there, I’m Maddie! I grew up in Boise and am so excited to be coming home for residency. I have spent the past decade in Salt Lake City, where I attended the University of Utah for undergrad and medical school. I have loved the time in Utah to explore all the national parks, ski the famous Utah powder, hike to and swim in some beautiful lakes, and work as an adaptive ski instructor in Park City. While in medical school, I was given an opportunity to sit on the board of the Idaho Medical Association and was fascinated by the process of healthcare advocacy and inspired by the incredible physicians in this state who are working tirelessly to improve healthcare access and delivery to our community. I plan to stay engaged in advocacy work throughout residency and beyond.
I was first exposed to rural medicine on an elective as an MS1 and immediately felt like I had found my home. Since then, I have taken advantage of every opportunity to gain more exposure to rural medicine and plan to practice full-spectrum inpatient and outpatient family medicine with OB when I grow up!
After doing a sub-I with FCH Boise, I knew this would be the perfect place (with the perfect people) to train for the full-scope rural practice I picture myself having while continuing to participate in healthcare advocacy. When off the clock, you’ll find me skiing, hiking, hanging out at the river, or at home baking with my two cats and wonderful partner!
Jack (Jake) Bruner, MD
Boise Program 2028
University of Washington School of Medicine
Jake was born and raised in the rural community of Cottonwood, Idaho on a small cattle ranch. He later went on to attend the College of Idaho for his undergraduate degree, where he studied biomedical sciences and played on the men’s basketball team. While at the College of Idaho, Jake participated in an internship that allowed him to work at a medical clinic in Stanley, Idaho for a summer operating in the role of a medical assistant and on their ambulance as an EMT.
After graduating from the College of Idaho, Jake went on to attend the University of Washington School of Medicine. During medical school, Jake participated in the TRUST program, a program aimed at providing medical students a longitudinal learning experience in rural/underserved hospitals. As a TRUST student, Jake worked alongside the physicians in Orofino, Idaho providing full-spectrum care to patients. Jake’s interests in medicine include full-spectrum family medicine, caring for rural/underserved populations, sports medicine, and obstetrics.
Outside of medicine, Jake enjoys spending time with his wife Kyndahl and their golden retriever, Ruger. He also enjoys playing basketball and golf, watching almost any sport, bird hunting, and attempting new recipes in the kitchen. Jake is very excited to have matched at Full Circle Health in Boise and have the opportunity to continue his training in his home state of Idaho.
Elise Cowley, MD, PhD
Boise Program 2028
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
I am Elise Cowley and I am from Winnemucca, Nevada — Hub of Northern Nevada. I attended Oregon State University graduating with degrees in Chemistry and Bioresource research. From there I took a position at the California Institute of Technology in southern California as a microbiologist in a research lab for several years. We studied the microbial communities in the lungs of pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis. Through this job I realized I wanted to combine my love of research and working with patients. This led me to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). Through this program, I completed a PhD in microbiology, studying the human gut microbiome in several different disease states. I also completed my MD, where I discovered my love of family medicine with its broad scope and continuity of care. I decided to pursue family medicine and integrate my research background into primary care. I am interested in full spectrum family medicine, including reproductive healthcare, addiction medicine, gender affirming care, and critical care, but mostly I am excited to provide care to people across the age spectrum and to be their primary doctor.
When not in clinic or hospital family time, reading and cooking keep me busy. In the spring and summer, you can find me gardening, hiking, and bird watching. In the fall, I will be hunting elk atop wilderness peaks with my Dad and siblings as well as fishing in the creeks and streams of Northern Nevada. During the winter, I enjoy snowshoeing. I am looking forward to moving to Boise to train as a family medicine physician and to get to explore Idaho
Margaret (Maggie) Desmond, MD
Boise Program 2028
Loyola University
Hey there, I’m Maggie! I was born and raised in small-town Pepperell, Massachusetts before moving to New York City to attend Fordham University. After studying anthropology and philosophy for my bachelor’s degree and completing a master’s degree in Ethics & Society, I took off for about 2 years to travel the world! I went to 29 countries across Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Africa with just me, my backpack, and a whole lotta luck.
When I came back to the US (in August 2019), I was having a great time as a waitress/bartender/boxing instructor/EMT before the pandemic hit. During the pandemic I volunteered in Navajo Nation as an EMT, studied for the MCAT in Montana, and worked as a medical scribe in a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts. Everything settled down when I moved to Illinois for medical school where I embraced my passion for family medicine and found my perfect program match in Full Circle Health Boise!
I was looking for a full-scope program with OMT for MDs, wilderness medicine, integrative medicine, global health, refugee care, lifestyle medicine, and great overall training plus friendly, supportive people. I can’t wait to pursue my broad interests and find the right fit for me as a full-scope rural family med doc.
Outside of medicine, obviously I love traveling. I also love music and play violin, guitar, and piano. I dabble in song-writing and singing. I enjoy a good hike, camping, and a nice campfire with “pretzel ‘mores” (switch out the graham cracker of a smore for pretzels, game changer). I love doing yoga, and I have been boxing recreationally since I was in high school. Also really love blasting the soundtrack to a musical while I bake scones. And dogs, really really love dogs. And green tea mochi from Trader Joe’s. And cheese.
Sydney McGuire, MD, MPH
Boise Program 2028
Medical School for International Health at Ben-Gurion University
Hi, I’m Sydney! I grew up on the East Coast in a military family. For college, I headed west to UC San Diego, where I studied physiology and neuroscience and rowed on the NCAA Varsity Crew team. After college, I moved to Butha-Buthe, Lesotho for a year and a half, where I partnered with local peer educators doing HIV/AIDS outreach and learned a ton from the clinicians there. My time in Lesotho was cut short when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The timing of the pandemic increased my passion for becoming a part of the work that was addressing health inequity from a public health perspective. During the pandemic, I lived in Washington, D.C. where I studied public health at George Washington University.
I knew that working at the intersection of public health and clinical medicine was the direction I wanted to take my career. I also knew that living in other cultures and learning from different health systems were invaluable to me. I attended the Medical School for International Health at Ben-Gurion University, where I had the opportunity to work with diverse patient populations in the southern Negev of Israel and study global health longitudinally. Unfortunately, the war broke out during my clinical years. It was challenging but ultimately reinforced my passion for comprehensive care and full-spectrum medicine.
I’m grateful that my path has allowed me to backpack and trek throughout the Middle East, Europe, and parts of Asia. I love exploring new places, connecting with people from different backgrounds, being in nature, practicing yoga, and staying active. I’m passionate about comprehensive reproductive healthcare, health equity, refugee care, preventive medicine, and integrative medicine. I’m also excited to explore wilderness medicine, rural health, and acute care during my time at Full Circle Health. I love an adventure and can’t wait to explore Boise and the Pacific Northwest!
Jacob Momberger, MD
Boise Program 2028
University of Utah School of Medicine
Hi, I’m Jake! I was born and raised in Salt Lake City. I went to BYU for undergrad studying public health and worked as a backpacking guide and youth community service coordinator rural Utah during my undergrad summers.
Through undergrad I helped conduct research with the Utah state crime lab reviewing sexual assault data. This led to a string of opportunities working for a state coalition to prevent sexual assault during my gap year and later serving on their board of directors. In medical school, I continued research in Child Abuse Pediatrics and hope to implement what I’ve learned from these experiences to provide care for survivors of trauma. I also engaged in many rural health experiences and have a particular interest in working in a rural and/or tribal context after graduating.
In the same vein of Family Medicine, I enjoy doing a little bit of everything with my free time including playing a variety of string instruments, puttering around the house and try to spend as much time as I can outside climbing, skiing, backpacking or on the river.
Christopher Mullen, MD
Boise 2028
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Hi all, I’m Chris! I grew up in Wisconsin before heading to Western Michigan University, where I studied biology and chemistry. There, I participated in service organizations that drove my interest in non-profit healthcare.
After college I moved back to Wisconsin and joined the Specialty Care Free Clinic, an organization dedicated to providing free specialty care to an uninsured patient population. I found tremendous fulfillment in this work and admired the physicians, nurses, and administrative staff that made the mission possible.
Determined to continue my work with the organization, I attended University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. I enjoyed elements of every specialty, but ultimately found my place in medicine through experiences in rural primary care in northern Wisconsin.
My interests in medicine are vast! Full Circle Health Boise is an excellent program for me to build the necessary skills for the practice of full spectrum family medicine in a rural and underserved community. My other interests include procedures, wilderness medicine, and food as medicine.
In my free time, I can usually be found outdoors with friends doing some combination of trail running, biking (of all kinds!), paddleboarding and backpacking. I also really enjoy all things food and cooking, which I am eager to share with a new community in Boise.
Olivia Myers, MD, MPH
Boise Program 2028
Loyola University
Hello! My name is Olive, and I grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City, Kansas, home to the country’s best barbeque (and yes, I’m still a vegetarian if I eat it once a year). I studied Psychology and French during undergrad at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and decided medicine was the place for me after scribing at an FQHC in North Minneapolis. While there, I fell in love with the collaboration, compassion, and creativity found in full-spectrum underserved family medicine and have chased that ever since.
After a brief stint learning how to snowboard in Salt Lake City, I moved to Chicago to attend medical school at Loyola. I pursued a dual degree MD/MPH with an emphasis on policy and management and continued working with underserved populations on Chicago’s West Side. I am incredibly passionate about extending healthcare outside the clinic walls, getting involved in Chicago’s street medicine team, and leading climbing programming at my local gym for children who wouldn’t normally have access to the sport. While I love family medicine for its breadth, a few passions of mine include LGBTQ healthcare, Health at Every Size, Underserved medicine, Lifestyle medicine, and Geriatrics. While I have built great experiences in the urban-underserved setting, I am excited to explore rural medicine in the backdrop of the beautiful state of Idaho. I chose FCH for its emphasis on full-spectrum training and can’t wait to take advantage of as many opportunities as I can.
When not working, I am almost always on my bike, whether bikepacking across a new country or during my daily commute. I also love rock climbing, snowboarding, cooking, cultivating my tea collection, and performing improv comedy with my friends.
Colin Nowierski, MD
Boise Program 2028
University of Washington School of Medicine
Hello! My name is Colin – I was born and raised in Boise, Idaho, and am excited to be coming home to begin my residency! I graduated from Santa Clara University in 2015 with a degree in biology. Prior to medical school, I worked as a scribe with Full Circle Health. My hobbies include hiking, skiing, camping, tennis, cycling, traveling, hanging out with friends and family, and watching college football.
I attended the University of Washington School of Medicine as a part of the Idaho WWAMI program. During this time, I had the opportunity to work and study in a mix of both urban and rural healthcare systems throughout the pacific northwest. In my medical school journey, I developed an interest in preventative medicine and fostering healthy lifestyles – elements of medicine that feel universally important throughout a variety of medical specialties. I was able to see firsthand how access to primary healthcare is a vital part of healthcare as a whole, and I am excited to begin my career in Family Medicine by providing full-spectrum care for the community I grew up in.
I’ll end on some exciting news – I recently got engaged to my fiancée, Amanda, while on vacation in Copenhagen! Pictured above are the two of us at the Rosenborg Castle gardens shortly after she said “yes!” We are looking forward to starting our life together in Boise, and are eagerly anticipating what this next chapter in life holds in store for us both.
Christopher Prokosch, MD
Boise Program 2028
University of Minnesota Medical School
Hello! My name is Christopher and I’m from snowy Minnesota where I love to canoe and cross-country ski. I went to St. Olaf College, where I competed in Nordic Skiing and Tennis, which have prepared me well for a pickleball career. During college, I found my passion to serve while working with migrants at rural and urban FQHCs and spent a month at a soup kitchen for migrants on the border in Nogales, Sonora.
During my gap year, I was an AmeriCorps volunteer with College Possible, where I helped first-generation students apply to college. I went to medical school at the University of Minnesota where I got involved with policy work at the state level and have held several roles with the AAFP. After third year of Medical School, I packed up my trusty Subaru and drove to Alaska where I had a summer full of hiking, volunteering with refugees, salmon, hitchhikers, and rotations, including a formative experience working with the Yupik community in Bethel, Alaska. From Alaska, I took the scenic route, winding my way down the coast to Tijuana, where I lived with priests and worked at a migrant clinic. I enjoyed my time in TJ so much that I returned to live and work for 3 months in ‘Casa Del Migrante’, a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, which I consider to be the best 3 months of my life…so far!
I am thrilled to train in Boise, surrounded by great people and great mountains. My interests are broad but include acute care, inpatient medicine, procedures, derm, and preventive health in underresourced communities. When I’m not in the hospital, I hope you can find me on a river, on a trail, or in the kitchen.
Sarah Rasmussen-Rehkopf, MD
Boise Program 2028
University of Washington School of Medicine
Haćh chi?í (hello)! Sarah is Quileute and Makah and is from Southeast Alaska in Sitka. She grew up on the ocean, fishing and exploring the islands around Sitka, before heading to college in Oregon. After completing her undergraduate degree, Sarah returned to Alaska and worked at the critical access hospital serving her community and as a commercial fishing deckhand. To gain more experience with healthcare she moved to Portland and worked at the OHSU Northwest Native American Center of Excellence which is where she met an American Indian/Alaska Native physician for the first time. From there her path into medicine became clear and she attended the University of Washington School of Medicine as part of the Alaska cohort.
Sarah is excited to be part of Full Circle Health and the Boise community! As a medical student she was able to do rotations around the WWAMI region and spent time in Idaho for several rotations, making her more excited to be returning to Boise for residency training. She is passionate about primary care, OB, AIAN health and education pathways, social determinants of health, culturally competent care, access for rural communities, LGBTQ+ care and healthcare advocacy.
Outside of medicine Sarah enjoys running, beading, being out in nature, and spending time with community. Liˀáts kal!
Amy Wysong, DO, MS
Boise Program 2028
University of New England
Dr. Amy Wysong hails from the wide-open farmland of northeast Kansas, but most recently called the rocky coast of southern Maine home. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Baker University and her master’s in science from Kansas City University. During medical school at the University of New England, Dr. Wysong was involved in community health initiatives like a syringe service program and a free clinic. She was also awarded a year-long anatomy and OMT teaching fellowship during which she served as junior faculty for first year medical students.
Dr. Wysong is so excited to be joining the Full Circle family, where she’ll continue growing in the areas she cares deeply about: full-spectrum reproductive healthcare, health advocacy and accessibility, osteopathic manipulation, and practicing humanistic, patient-centered care. Her dream is to practice family medicine in a rural, underserved area and hopes to contribute to international medical efforts.
Dr. Wysong has been involved with a variety of research, from pathways to manipulate stem cell differentiation to utilizing osteopathic manipulation for pelvic pain relief. Additionally, her love for travel has taken her from the Highlands of Scotland to the beaches of New Zealand, with stops in Honduras, Portugal, South Africa, and Iceland along the way. During her fourth year of medical school, she and her partner, Chad, embraced life on the road and lived full-time in an RV.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Wysong can be found buried in a book (or audiobook), hiking new trails, planning wild travel adventures with Chad, or spiraling into existential wonder about the nature of time.
Alexis Anderson, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: Family Medicine in Lander, Wyoming
Maria Carbonell, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: National University of Cordoba (Argentina)
Current Job: Outpatient Care at Saint Alphonsus in Nampa, ID
Brayden Chamberlain, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
Current Job: Full Spectrum Medicine at St. George in Utah
Isabella Farina, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
Current Job: Coming Soon
Emma Hall, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
Current Job: Hospitalist in rural Maine
Malla Keefe, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
Current Job: Hospitalist in Reno, Nevada
Katie Myers, MD, MPH
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Current Job: Hospitalist at University of New Mexico Hospital
Megan Phelps, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: OB Fellowship at University of Utah (2025-2026)
Amelia Schurke, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Current Job: Hospitalist at Essentia Health in Duluth, MN
Benjamin Showalter, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: Climate and Health Science Policy Fellowship, Univ of Colorado (2025-2026)
Omar Syed, MD
Boise Program 2025
Medical School: American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine
Current Job: Addiction Medicine Fellowship at University of Utah (2025-2026)
Abigail Allman, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Kansas School of Medicine
Current Job: OB Fellowship Seattle
Emily Fitzgerald, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: FCH Sports Medicine Fellowship (2024-2025)
Miranda Smith, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Current Job: FCH OB Fellowship (2024-2025)
Alexandra Beattie, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Queensland
Current Job: FCH FM Faculty Development Fellowship (2024-2025)
Emily Dickerson, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: St. Alphonsus Nampa
Sarah Hershman, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Current Job: Faculty Nampa FM, Nampa North Clinic
Neil Liotta, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: Spokane FM
Sarah Maze, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: Lander, Wyoming (IHS)
Tyler McChane, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Current Job: Nampa Terry Reilly
Michaela Frey, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
Current Job: UW Wisconsin Integrative Med Fellowship
Megan Schwehr, MD
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: Caldwell Terry Reilly
Summer Szumski, DO
Boise Program 2024
Medical School: Pacific Northwest University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Current Job: FCH Rural Medicine Fellowship (2024-2025)
Angela Bangs, MD
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine Montana WWAMI Program
Current Job: Faculty with Full Circle Health – Boise (Fall 2024)
Nathan Ord, MD
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine Alaska Program
Current Job: Rural Medicine Fellow at Full Circle Health (2023-2024)
Phebe Alley, MD
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Current Job: FM w/ Surgical OB Fellowship: Duluth, MN (with plans for a broad spectrum job in Orofino, ID upon completion)
Zara Bowden, MD
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: The University of Vermont College of Medicine
Current Job: Faculty with Full Circle Health Boise FM Residency (Winter 2024)
Paige Ely, DO
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: Pacific Northwest University – College of Osteopathic Medicine
Current Job: Joining the Petaluma Health Center FHQC (Fall 2024)
Amanda Aman, MD
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine (WWAMI)
Current Job: Faculty with Full Circle Health Nampa FM Residency. (Clinic + OB care)
Jeffrey Chase, DO
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: University of North Texas Health Science Center (TCOM)
Current Job: Sports Medicine Fellow at the University of New Mexico (2023-2024)
Rachel Chisausky, DO
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: A.T. Still University – School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona
Current Job: Reproductive Health and Advocacy Fellow at the University of Washington (2023-2024)
Lange Clancy, DO
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: A.T. Still University – School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona
Current Job: Emergency Medicine Fellowship in Ashland, WI (2023-2024)
Kelsey Harding, MD
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: Peace Health in Vancouver, WA (Clinic and OB Care)
Kim McGrath, MD
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: Deakin University School of Medicine in Geelong, Australia
Current Job: Hospitalist at Saint Alphonsus in Nampa, ID
Kevin McNamee, MD
Boise Program 2023
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: Surgical OB Fellow at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, WA (2023-2024)
Carson Barnes, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: The Medical University of South Carolina
Current Job: TRHS Caldwell / Nampa, ID (Clinic, inpatient medicine, OB)
Jason Johnston, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: McGovern Medical School
Current Job: Clinic & Sports Medicine care at Primary Health in Nampa, ID
Emily Barnes, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago
Current Job: Surgical OB Fellow at University of Utah in SLC (2023-2024)
Caroline Beyer, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Current Job: Los Angeles LGBT Center in Los Angeles, California
Patrick Bloecher, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: University of Washington – Alaska WWAMI Program.
Current Job: Faculty at the Southwest Illinois FM Residency in O’Fallon, IL (Fall 2023)
Matthew Harrison, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: University of Washington – Montana WWAMI Program.
Current Job: Bozeman Clinic PLLP in Bozeman, Montana
Emily Jack, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: Oregon Health and Science University
Current Job: CHI St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, Oregon (Clinic, Newborn / Inpatient Pediatrics)
Ann Jennings, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: UW School of Medicine
Current Job: Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center at Providence Alaska Medical Center (FM Clinic and OB deliveries)
Victoria Kent, DO
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU)
Current Job: St. Luke’s in Hailey, Idaho [Wood’s River] (Clinic, Inpatient Medicine, OB)
Joseph Pendleton, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Current Job: St. Luke’s in Hailey, Idaho [Wood’s River] (Clinic and Inpatient Medicine)
Erin Renfrew, MD
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa
Current Job: Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, NM (Clinic, Inpatient Medicine, Inpatient Pediatrics, and OB)
Maximilian Taylor, DO
Boise Program 2022
Medical School: The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest at Western University of Health Sciences
Current Job: Peace Health in Eugene, Oregon (Clinic and Inpatient Medicine)
Reuben Baker, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: Brown University
Current Job: Faculty at Cheshire Medical Center FM Residency in Keene, NH (Clinic and Inpatient Medicine)
Michael Claussen, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: University of Minnesota – Duluth
Current Job: Valor Health in Emmett, ID
Nichole Aker, DO
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest Current Job: St. Luke’s in Mountain Home, ID (Clinic and Surgical OB)
Laddie Crisp, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: East Carolina University
Current Job: Hospitalist for Ballad Health in Southwest Virginia & Northeast Tennessee
Matthew Davis, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: George Washington University
Current Job: Hospitalist/Full Spectrum Family Medicine in Bethel, Alaska
Julie Duncan, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: University of Missouri
Current Job: HealthPoint FQHC in Redmond, WA (Clinic-Based Care)
Joey Florence, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: Faculty at Full Circle Health in Boise, ID (FM clinic, endoscopy, sports medicine, inpatient medicine and OB)
Kade Klippenstein, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
Current Job: St. Luke’s in McCall, ID (ER & inpatient medicine)
Ryann Milne-Price, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Current Job: ER coverage at Contra Costa FMR in Martinez, CA
Ellen Richardson, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: Brown Medical School
Current Job: Faculty at Cheshire Medical Center FM Residency in Keene, NH (FM Clinic & OB)
Elynn Smith, MD
Boise Program 2021
Medical School: University of Utah School of Medicine
Current Job: St. Luke’s Payette Lakes FM and ER in McCall, ID (Inpatient care)
Jamie McDonald
Boise Program Coordinator
Jamie McDonald is originally from Oregon, she moved to Idaho to attend University and never left. She feels lucky be going on 14 years with Full Circle Health. Outside of work you can find her chasing around her two growing boys that like to camp, hike, bike, and ski, keeping her very busy. She also loves tending to her garden and reading a good book.
Kaye Nelson
External Education Coordinator
Kaye is originally from the California Bay Area where she lived for the first 16 years of her life. Her family then moved to the San Jaquin Valley where she graduated from high school and lived until moving to Idaho in 1990 where she raised her 5 sons. Having a father that grew up on a farm in the Magic Valley, Kaye used to visit Idaho every year growing up, enjoying her grandparents farm in Twin Falls, ID. Kaye has been at Full Circle Health since 2007 and loves all the different work roles she has had during that time. In her free time, Kaye enjoys reading, traveling, swimming, hanging out with her 2 dogs and 3 cats, and spending time with her friends, family, and 5 beautiful grandchildren.
Melissa Trietsch
Administrative Assistant
Melissa Trietsch was born and raised in Boise, Idaho. After high school she was very lucky to get to move to the Bay Area to work for her Grandparents and attend school. Later, she moved to a small rural town in Northern California but ended up moving back to Boise for more opportunities. Melissa has been with Full Circle Health for 10 years and has been married to her husband and best friend Johnny, for just as long. She moved to Meridian in 2015 and welcomed their beautiful daughter in 2016. Melissa loves spending time with her family, playing in the yard/garden, watching crime shows, ATV riding, and cooking up yummy eats.
Shaneé Eckert
Outpatient Rotation Coordinator
Shaneé is Idaho born and raised. She loves to spend her free time playing with her daughter, going to concerts and working out with her husband, and taking their 2 dogs on walks. She feels lucky to have her parents, 3 siblings, and nephews and niece in the area – making it easy to have impromptu family get togethers frequently. She has a huge passion for special effects make-up, all things Christmas, theater, and finding joy in the little things.
Before joining FCH in 2022, Shaneé worked in banking, inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, accounting, and most fun – Improv Comedy Theatre.
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