Current fellows
Jeremy Blanchard, MD, MPH
Jeremy Blanchard attended Lee University where he obtained degrees in Biochemistry and English. During his studies he worked on NASA-funded research studying the effects of microgravity on bone loss in astronauts. He then obtained an MPH at Yale University focusing on the epidemiology of microbial diseases. While there he focused on the attenuation of influenza transmission as well as research funded by USAID assessing emerging pandemic threats.
Jeremy attended medical school at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University. He then started his career in General Surgery residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center before switching to Family Medicine at the same institution. He served as chief resident. He is heavily involved in research and is completing his PhD in Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Applied Health Economics and Outcomes Research. His research interests include health economics, infectious disease modeling, and economic mobility.
Nari Hsiu, DO
Nari Hsiu received her BA in International Studies from the University of Washington and then worked as an ophthalmic technician before matriculating at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine. In medical school, she was active in community service volunteering at the Union Gospel Mission Free medical clinic and organized elementary school health workshops.
Nari served as the co-director of the Yakima Health Equity Forum where she organized multiple community events to promote health equity and equality. She is set to graduate UW Boise Psychiatry Residency where she served as Chief Resident. She is passionate about advocacy and wishes to bring positive change to vulnerable patient communities. Nari enjoys travel, bike riding, hiking, baking desserts, knitting, painting and reading.
Program leadership
Jacob Harris, Program Director
Dr. Jacob Harris is board certified in Psychiatry, Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He is a graduate of University of Washington Medical School and returned home to Boise after completing dual training in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at Duke University in Durham North Carolina.
Dr. Harris is the Addiction Medicine Director at the Boise VA Medical Center and works with the 18 bed residential SUD program.
He works with psychiatry residents, internal medicine residents, and medical students and enjoys teaching all aspects of addiction medicine—from acute treatment of delirium tremens to exploration of trauma and its influence on substance use.
Alicia Carrasco, Associate Program Director
Dr. Carrasco is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She completed residency at UCSF and stayed in San Francisco doing primary care and hospital work in the safety net system before moving to Boise.
She helped implement primary care-based MAT services in San Francisco, Nampa, and the Boise VA. She has run numerous X-Waiver trainings, including regional trainings through the Society for General Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians and Project ECHO.
She is the site director for a national VA project evaluating the effect of Opioid Reassessment Clinics on patient outcomes and core faculty for the UW-Boise Internal Medicine Residency where she has created and implemented a substance use disorder curriculum that includes X-waiver sessions for all trainees.
She chairs the Opioid Safety Initiative and Pain Committee at the VA, which seek to prevent, diagnose and treat opioid use disorder. Her clinical work focuses on pain and substance use disorder overlap syndromes.