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Specialist Panel

ECHO Idaho’s Curbside Consult for Opioid & Substance Use Treatment features a rotating panel of experts available to answer questions related to prescribing opioid and substance use disorder medications, including psychosocial interventions.

Addiction Specialists

  • Alicia Carrasco, MD, Internal Medicine & Addiction Medicine, Boise VA Medical Center

  • Cate Heil, MD, curr. Primary Care Psychiatry Fellow, prev. Addiction Medicine Fellow, Full Circle Health

  • Derek Hayton, DO, Family Medicine & Addiction Medicine, Primary Health Medical Group, Boise

  • Jacob Harris, MD, Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine, Boise VA Medical Center

  • Magni Hamso, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM, Medicaid Medical Director, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare

  • Megan McCarren, MD, Addiction Medicine & Internal Medicine, Saint Alphonsus Health System

  • Nina Abul-Husn, MD, Medical Director, Trivium Life Services, Raise the Bottom Addiction Treatment

  • Todd Palmer, MD, Geriatrics and Addiction Medicine, Full Circle Health

Behavioral Health Specialists

  • Amy McKenzie, LCPC, AADC, Therapist Team Coordinator, Trivium Life Services

  • Cloeie Hood, LCSW, AADC, Owner, Tegmentum Counseling Services

  • Denise Metzger, LMSW, Clinical Social Worker, Kootenai Clinic Family Medicine Residency, Coeur d’Alene

  • Lana Schuerman, LCPC, AADC, SPMI, Clinical Supervisor, State Hospital North, Orofino

  • Sarah Samson, LCSW, Therapist Team Coordinator, Trivium Life Services

  • Shannon Stevens-Commers, BS, ADC, Telehealth Counselor, Brick House Recovery



Contact Project ECHO

Physical Address:

Idaho Water Center
322 E. Front Street, Ste. 222
Boise, ID 83702

Phone: 208-364-4072

Fax: 208-364-3178

Email: echoidaho@uidaho.edu