Faculty

  • Andrea Esplin, MD

    Family MedicineEmerald 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…

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  • Margaret Mortimer joined Full Circle Health in 2011. In addition to providing family practice to diverse populations across the lifespan. She works at the Emerald office doing 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…

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  • Family MedicineOsteopathic 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…

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  • Tim DeBlieck, MD

    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…

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  • Mary Barinaga, MD

    Family MedicineAssistant 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…

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  • Justin Bailey, MD

    Family MedicineProcedural 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…

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  • Suzanne Allen, MD

    Family MedicineVice 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,…

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  • Family MedicineOB 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…

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  • Family MedicineMedical 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…

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  • Graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1997, Dr. Glass completed his residency training through Providence – St. Peter Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Olympia, Washington in 2000. He subsequently went to work for the Navajo Area Indian Health Service in Shiprock, NM as a medical officer. In this capacity he…

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