Medical Director, Idaho Department of Health & Welfare

Dr. Hamso is an internal medicine & addiction medicine physician. She is the Medical Director at the Department of Health & Welfare’s Division of Medicaid, a part-time staff physician at the Boise VA, and a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington. Dr. Hamso attended Columbia University for medical and public health school and completed her residency at the Montefiore Medical Center Primary Care & Social Internal Medicine Residency Program in New York. Tired of living in the big city, and ready for easier access to the outdoors, she moved to Boise in 2014. Prior to joining Medicaid in 2019, Dr. Hamso was Associate Program Director at the University of Washington-Boise Internal Medicine Residency. She also cared for largely uninsured medically and psychosocially complex patients and taught students and residents at a local FQHC. She has long been involved in advocacy around the opioid overdose epidemic and for several years served on the State Behavioral Health Planning Council, as a Project ECHO Idaho panelist, and as a volunteer consultant for SAMHSA’s Opioid Response Network.