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Mark Grajcar D.O. graduated from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. While in college he studied in France during his junior year, and spent a semester doing research at Columbia University in New York. After receiving his medical degree from Des Moines University he began his residency training at Madigan Army Medical Center.
After completing his Family Medicine residency in 1993 Dr. Grajcar served in the U.S. Army Medical Corp for the next seven years. He reached the rank of major while holding many leadership positions. His last four years were spent in Heidelberg, Germany. After moving to Idaho in 2000 with his wife and his son, he worked for Saint Alphonsus Medical Group (SAMG). While employed at SAMG he served on the Executive Board and as Facility Medical Director for several years.
Dr. Grajcar opened Initial Point Family Medicine in 2007. He has strong interests in diabetes, dermatology and travel medicine. He also likes to spend most of his leisure time fly fishing, bird hunting, and camping with his family.
Katie Nielsen PA-C is a fourth generation Idaho native who grew up in Pocatello. She attended undergraduate school at Utah State University where she received a degree in Biology. After college she worked as a children’s behavioral therapist until starting her medical training. She graduated from the Physician Assistant Program at Idaho State University in 2001. Soon after graduation she moved to the Treasure Valley. Her career has focused on family medicine but she has also had the opportunity to work in various specialties such as Neurology, Urgent Care, and Mental Health. In recent years Katie has developed an interest in bio-identical hormone therapy. The aspect of patient care that she enjoys the most is getting to know her patients and their families while helping them achieve their health and wellness goals.
While not at work Katie and her husband take advantage of all the recreation that Idaho has to offer. She enjoys riding her bicycle, both on the greenbelt and in the mountains. During the summer you can find her camping, hiking, and playing softball. She is also an avid skier and enjoys bird watching. Katie likes to travel as much as possible and loves spending time with her family.
Billie “The Office Dog” joined Initial Point in the spring of 2011 when she was only a few months old. Billie is one of the hardest working employees at IPFM. She enjoys greeting and comforting patients at the office, taking long naps in the sun and patiently waiting for dog treats. In her off time she loves hunting for birds, playing outdoors and cuddling with her family.
Dr. Erik Jones started his solo practice in downtown Boise in 2004 to provide a different model of health care to his patients. A graduate of Boise State University and Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, he completed internships in General Medicine at Lansing General Hospital in Michigan and Surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington before serving as a Brigade Surgeon and Flight Surgeon in Bosnia and Germany. Once his military service was completed, Dr. Jones returned to a Family Medicine Residency at Oregon Health Sciences University in the rural training program in Klamath Falls, Oregon and served as Chief Resident.
Dr. Erik Jones moved back to Boise in 2000 to raise a family and provides care in a solo family medicine clinic that uniquely attends to the needs of each patient, with a particular focus on chronic illness and how lifestyles affect our health. Dr. Jones also provides a travel medicine clinic through Travel Clinics of America, which helps him stay well versed in tropical medicine and travel and altitude specific illness.
When not in the office seeing patients, Dr. Jones can often be found running or biking in the foothills or along the Boise River greenbelt. He enjoys travel, being outdoors, and is an enthusiastic supporter of his daughters’ various sporting activities.
Dr. Josh Leavitt is a board-certified family physician. He received his undergraduate biology degree at the University of Utah, his medical degree (DO) at Touro Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine, and his residency training locally at Family Medicine Residency of Idaho. During residency, he, along with his wife and three children, fell in love with the Treasure Valley and the rest of Idaho and decided to put down roots.
Dr. Roger Wyatt graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho with a degree in Biology. He completed medical school at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in St. Maarten and his residency at Phoenix Baptist Family Medicine in Phoenix, Arizona.
Dr. Wyatt grew up in Idaho and moved back after finishing residency in 2015. He enjoys helping patients optimize their health through beneficial lifestyle choices. He is experienced in managing chronic diseases such diabetes, hypertension, COPD, asthma and many more. He especially enjoys the care of his pediatric patients.
In his spare time, Dr. Wyatt loves being with his wife and three daughters. He likes running, biking, skiing and being outdoors and watching a good college football game. He also enjoys gardening and eating the fruits of his labors.
Dr. Julie Gunther is a dual-Board Certified Family Physician who loves being a doctor. She founded sparkMD in 2013 to take back her relationship with her patients and to empower herself to be the doctor she set out to be.
In 2016, Dr. Julie was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her diagnosis, at the age of 40, led her to re-frame her personal goals and her goals for sparkMD. She decided to build a team that supported her mission and that would allow her to extend more care to more people and to spend time sharing sparkMD’s mission with other doctors and medical organizations throughout the US.
Dr Julie has worked to build a robust, compassionate, diligent and capable team of two nurses, a Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant and an aesthetician. The sparkMD team provides urgent care services, wellness services and aesthetic services, focusing across the board on mental and physical well being. Dr. Julie supervises all of these services and is generally on-site and/or behind the scenes for every patient interaction provided here. It is the mission of everyone at sparkMD to restore the integrity of healthcare through dignified, transparent care that is given the time and space it needs to be done right.
Dr. Julie is a graduate of Boise High School, Harvard University, and the University of Washington School of Medicine. She has spoken, provided content or been featured in Forbes, NPR, Bloomberg News, Medical Economics, Physician Practice, Reason TV, KevinMD, The Idaho Statesman, The Idaho Business Review, Greenbelt Magazine among many other forums. She enjoys motivational speaking, telling authentic stories and empowering physicians and individuals to think differently about how we care for ourselves and for each other.
